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POPSOrigins of Chess Sort of bullshit article about cosmology and chess, but I liked the parts about the historical variants and their similarities.
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POPSJake Gyllenhaal is the Prince of Persia... Yes, Jake Gyllenhaal is dreamy...but I can't see him as the Prince of Persia. I must say, he did look really good in Jarhead;) Now the guy from the Mummy looks just about right. (I didn't know people still used geocities these days.)
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POPS840 CE: Trade between Viking Scandinavia and the Arab World We take for granted that our world is more international today than it ever was before in history. Though our speed of trans-national communications, commerce and travel is truly staggering, ancient civilizations were not necessarily isolated islands. Understanding that the Arabs and Vikings, Romans and Chinese were all part of a single international system, not monolithic bastions of "clashing" civilizations is the first step towards understanding how we can live peacefully with each other today.
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POPSTracking the Origin of the Cat Cats probably started living close to humans when people evolved from nomadic herding to raising livestock and crops and started storing food, which attracted mice and other rodents. Cats found good hunting there, and humans surely appreciated the sly little predators' help protecting their stocks."There was a mutual benefit," Lyons said. From there, domesticated cats started to radiate out to different parts of the world, often following humans on their migrations. Today cats can be divided genetically into four broad groups: those from Europe, the Mediterranean, East Africa and Asia. But Lyons and her colleagues also made surprising discoveries about individual breeds. The Japanese bobtail, for example, does not seem genetically similar to cats from Japan, indicating the breed may have originated elsewhere. Despite its name, the Persian, the oldest recognized breed, looks as though it actually arose in Western Europe and not Persia, which today is Iran.
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POPSNasser al-Din Shah Qajar Or, to give him his full name: Qadar-qadrat-i-Qavvi--Shaukat-i-Shahanshah-i-Jam Jah din Panah-i-Zillu'llah ul-Mamdud fi'l-ardin Ghias-ul-Islam va-ul-Muslimin us-Sultan ul-Azam va Khaqan ul-Afkham Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar
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POPSHistory of Coffee Austin's clipping brought to you by: COFFEE! It is my firm belief that coffee is at the root of all modern western scholarship.
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POPSCradle of Persia Game Download Free. Cradle of Persia Download Game Build the mysterious heart of Ancient Persia in this engaging puzzle game! The original capital of the Achaemenid Empire was adorned with luxurious metals, gems and stone carvings that were set to impress peasants and visiting nobles alike. Sadly, the exotic gardens and impressive architecture that once filled this once magnificent place have long since vanished in the passing sands. Now youve got the chance to seek out the riddles of these ruins as you travel through the land of a thousand and one nights. To do this you will need skill and a keen wit, but the result ? if you survive ? will unlock a mystery never before seen by man, here in the Cradle Of Persia.
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POPS Pakistan And President Musharraf Mark Steyn
Everyone's an expert :General Musharraf should do this, he shouldn't have done that, the State Department should lean on him to do the other. Furthermore, confident believers in the usual dreary pendulum of Pakistani politics — corrupt democrats, followed by authoritarian generals, followed by corrupt democrats — overlook how profoundly the country's changed. Its political dynamic has a new player: Islamism. Miss Bhutto says, oh, don't worry about that, it's a lot of hooey got up by Musharraf to persuade Washington to prop him up for another half-decade. Pakistan is not Persia. For one thing, it's a country only 60 years old whose slapdash creation was one of the worst disasters of British imperial policy. Yet even those who thought so at the time would be astonished to find that, a mere couple of generations on, a regional afterthought is not only a nuclear power that has dispersed its technology around the planet but also a driving force of the world's first global insurgency.
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POPSJust East of Eden: Iran, images and reflections Continuation: Washington had total confidence in the Shah’s American-armed military forces that had made Iran the gendarme of the region. The Iranian Revolution was a severe blow to US power in the Middle East from which the world power has never recovered. The miscalculations, misjudgments and blindness to reality concerning Iran of 29 years ago have led the USA down erroneous paths ever since. In 1980 American-armed Iraq conveniently attacked Iran in chaos, while Washington turned up the heat and upped its own confusion by secretly selling more arms to Iran in order to pay for the dirty war against the new leftwing Sandinista government in Nicaragua. The Iran-Contras scandal. America arms both sides. Until Iraq launched its US-provided chemical warfare, killing thousands of Iranians.
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