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To: IngotWeTrust who wrote (87731)	7/9/2002 12:33:56 PM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116779

Coin Found in China Bolsters Theory By Audra Ang Associated Press Writer Monday, July 8, 2002; 11:37 AM washingtonpost.com BEIJING -- A Byzantine-era gold coin unearthed in northwestern China reinforces theories that the region was a key part of the ancient East-West trade route, a research institute said Monday. The Roman coin, weighing eight-hundredths of an ounce, was excavated from a tomb in Xiangride township in Dulan County in Qinghai province, according to the Communist Party's People's Daily newspaper Web site. The paper quoted Xu Xinguo, head of the Qinghai Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute. Xu's assistant, Liu Baoshan, told The Associated Press the coin was found under a skull in the tomb of an ethnic Tubo and appeared to date from 408-450. The Tubos were ancestors of modern Tibetans from the Northern Dynasties of 386-550. It is the second ancient Roman coin found in the county. Xu said archaeologists should consider that the area might have been an alternative main route to the Silk Road, the land corridor that linked China with central and western Asia and the Mediterranean between 100 B.C. and A.D. 800. Most scholars believe the route entered China's far northwestern Xinjiang province through present-day Lanzhou city, in the neighboring Gansu province. But Xu said several recent archaeological finds in Tubo tombs have shifted attention west of Lanzhou to Dulan County. A parallel road to Xinjiang through the Qinghai's Qaidam Basin may have been an equally important path, Xu said. Silver coins from ancient Persia found in the region in recent years were further evidence of its significance, Liu said. Persia is now Iran. Ancient Rome was divided into two parts. The eastern capital was Byzantium, or Constantinople, now known as Istanbul. The Byzantine Empire was established in 312 and ended in 1453, when Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks. © 2002 The Associated Press

To: IngotWeTrust who wrote (87731)	7/10/2002 2:28:03 PM
From: Bill Grant	Respond to of 116779

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To: IngotWeTrust who wrote (87731)	7/10/2002 3:52:02 PM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116779

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To: IngotWeTrust who wrote (87731)	7/11/2002 7:08:59 AM
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OT re: wildfires Wednesday, July 10, 2002 'Environmentalists' Abet Wildfires Nuisance lawsuits filed by self-styled "environmentalists" have sabotaged half of the U.S. Forest Service's attempts to cut the underbrush that fuels the West's catastrophic wildfires. So reports the liberal Denver Post today, based on an internal Forest Service report it obtained. "For those who have spent the last several weeks downplaying the impact of appeals and litigation on forest management, this report is a bucket of cold water in the face," said Rep. Scott McInnis, R-Colo., chairman of the House subcommittee on forests. "The American people can expect a decades-long cycle of destructive wildfires if this crusade against forest management continues." The Post reported: "McInnis and others say environmental groups' repeated challenges to logging and thinning projects have left the forests clogged with underbrush that fuels fires. "Environmentalists say they support thinning and controlled burns to protect homes and communities against wildfire. But they oppose thinning far from cities, which they consider to be commercial logging in disguise." 'Green' With Envy Translation: The environment-destroying "environmentalist" extremists would rather risk destroying millions of acres, and the lives of thousands of people, than let anyone produce jobs and make profits from the precious trees they worship. According to the Post: "In the Rocky Mountain region that includes Colorado, only 11 percent of the thinning projects have been appealed. But in states such as Montana, 100 percent of the cutting projects were challenged. Out of 326 thinning projects nationwide for 2001 and the first half of 2002, the report found that 155 - 48 percent - were appealed. Six percent went to court." newsmax.com