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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (38089)	8/9/2008 5:57:24 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (7) \| Respond to of 217560

Well, New York as a European entrepôt did not yet exist when Zhang He was sailing on the watery reaches of the Silk Road, although London, a Roman trading outpost, was quite old by then. Zhang He traveled an ancient, ancient, well worn path, established thousands of years before by Syrians, Afghanis, Persians, Indians, Indonesians, Romans, Egyptians, not that there's anything wrong with that but he did come to a sad end (for a time) because of Chinese government idiocracy, nothing new about that. New York was a Native American entrepôt at the time, not that I'd expect you to know much about that. As for the Olympics, I am not a sports fan, nor a fan of spectacle on TV. I did try watching one Olympic opening ceremony on TV a few years ago -- or maybe a few decades ago -- I thought it was boring. But hey, thanks for mentioning the National Geographic display on Zhang He, I was looking for something fun to do later today and it's definitely on my to-do list, if not today, another day. In the meantime, you might want to check out the Celtic Caucasian mummies in the Taklamakan Desert. My ancestors were traveling in your neck of the woods centuries before your ancestors visited us. ;^)