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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (4384)	11/26/2001 12:04:01 PM
From: Douglas V. Fant	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 36161

Kastel, I think that descendants of Greek stonecutters who came to Afghanistan with Alexander the Great helped build the Buddhist statues of Bamiyan in the 8th Century AD. Yes- The Iranians and a number of the linked Afghan tribes are all descendants of the original Aryan tribes who occupied the southern steppes of Asia. From the Aryans sprung most (but not all) European tribes, the Slavs, the Celts, the Balts, the Germans, and the Iberians etc, as well as the Hindi, etc. The other two major ethnic groups present in Afghanistan would be Turkic and Oriental, both again Asian in origin.... Does the possible historic bloodlink between say Iranians and Europeans impact foreign policy decisions? Right now no, however I think that it has in the past.... Conoco is a well run company. The Phillips merger should make them even stronger especially since Phillips (through GPM) has a nice mid- stream presence too. That puts ConocoPhillips in a position to exploit the spark spread with their resource base-important I say if you look at the recently revised EIA energy estimates/use through the Year 2020. I've been to Bath (Roman ruins), Stonehenge, and Salisbury Plains. However my best English history story is that I once ran in a twilight hash race west of London, got lost running around in fields looking for the next hash mark, and instead stumbled upon a stone marker in a field just near dark-dang! It marked where the Magna Carta was signed in 1228! Talk about making one feel humble....