626: Healthy Lifestyles, World at War - If We All Just Prayed Like Buddha
It seems the more fanatical that our specific version of God or Allah, the more bloodshed that just seems to have no end in sight. Why not just live a holy life?...

627: Roman Antiques, Science - Archimedes, Rome Lives On In Scotland
Youthful honor scholar Archimedes from Syracuse in the Kingdom of Sicily showed his genius in great Alexandria when he solved the problem of how to lift water up from the Nile to irrigate the fields. Killed on a beach back home as the Romans took over, his Archimedes screw, which is not unlike a ferris wheel, lives on anew at a canal in Scotland and makes use of a Roman tunnel nearby....

628: Long Term Tattoo After Care
You’ve got past those first days of serious Tattoo After Care when all you want to do is scratch and pick at it or take the bandages off too soon to show your friends What next...

629: Healthy Lifestyles - Examples From Leonardo
The lifetime of Leonardo of the town of Vinci was a time of turbulence and violence, yet also the flowering of the great enlightenment of the Renaissance, which began all around where ever Leonardo seemed to be....

630: The Cigar Boom: What It Was (And Is)
As the 1990s dawned, few industries seemed deader than cigar sales and manufacture. From its height in the 1850s - when Cuba alone exported 356.6 million cigars - the cigar had fallen into virtual moribundity. Its market had been conquered by cheap, ubiquitous cigarettes....

631: Playing Games: What John Nash Was Actually Famous For
As Chariots Of Fire did for Eric Liddell and Braveheart did for William Wallace, the 2002 film A Beautiful Mind made mathematician John Forbes Nash a household name - without necessarily rendering his life, or his work, much better-understood....

632: Do You Know the History of Mathematics?
If you've taken a first-year college history course - or read through a basic history textbook - you may have noticed a small gap. It's only a thousand years or so....

633: Choosing A Luxury Hotel For Your Wedding Venue
Taking a looking at hotels as a potential venue for your wedding, including what questions to ask and what to look out for when searching for the right venue....

634: Cheap Doesn't Always Pay
A look at one man's unfortunate experience with a removal company....

635: Diamonds, Gemstones, Gold Mountain - Chinese Antiques, Wealth Over East
The gold fields, diamonds and gemstones of California first brought the Chinese during the 1848 Gold rush, and soon after they built the railway, they had laundry shops across America and Chinese restaurants at every whistle stop. New Americans, fed you, did your laundry....

636: Healthy Lifestyles- Meditating Away a Bloody Accident
At times some horrible accident happens that can haunt us, such a any incident that involves blood and death. This was one such case in my early teens that I learned to put to rest....

637: Healthy Lifestyles, Power - Your Eyes Show It
The most fight we have in us at any moment is to be seen in our eyes. If your group sense that you have it in you that we can yet win, they look for it in your eyes. If you have doubts, they begin to give up....

638: Healthy Lifestyles, Life Itself - 2008 Not Great, 2009 More Benign?
The news keeps seeming to bring more talk of recession, more never ending war, uncertain oil prices, a mid east ablaze, bin ladin still in the mountains. Could next year be better?...

639: No One Is Anonymous Stay Safe Online
If you want it bad enough there are ways to find information on anyone by using public records....

640: Chinese Antiques, Democracy, Joining The West - Huge Leap Forward
Watching the riots in Tibet, and now the speech by the Premier of China on the hopes and aspirations for China in the next five years, seems to point to paradoxes in not only the Chinese, but perhaps the human condition....

641: Egyptian Antiques, What Would Archimedes Do With Fresh Water, Desert?
In watching a television documentary of the desert of north Africa, is an insight into unknown lands with huge potential, and they may soon be part of Europe....

642: Healthy Lifestyles, Healthy Planet - 2009, The Year of the Healing
The year 2008 will appear as a very weary old man passing the mantle over to a rather hesitant young 2009, who may need a diaper change when he reviews the financial books and watches the news. After that, the clean up begins....

643: The Wonderful Culture Of Romania
The beautiful country that is Romania can also boast of a strong cultural heritage. This culture has emerged as a consequence of its distinct geographical features and its eventful history. It is a Latin country, where the flavors of the Roman past are still evident, but on the other hand, it follows the Orthodox Church....

644: All That You Wanted To Know About Romania
People in most parts of the world seem to know very little about Romania these days. Either they have no idea about its location on the atlas, or they have heard something about terrible happenings in the country....

645: Throw a Party for the Chinese New Year
Whether it's the year of the Snake, the Rat, or the Pig, a Chinese New Year Celebration can be a fun excuse for dressing up and heralding a new year. With another chance to make some resolutions and hope for the best, this festive time of the year doesn't have to be limited to just those from China....

646: Bathtub Trends In Comfort And Style
We all want to have it, the latest and the greatest. Find out what's hot in the bathtub industry....

647: Diamonds, Gemstones,Gold; A Mountain Of It - Only Irish Need Apply
A mountain of diamonds, gemstones, gold, silver in such abundance found by an American of Irish descent had him require thousands of workers: my ancestors were of those who applied when his ad in the east read Only Irish Need Apply. Apply at the top of the mountain at Butte, Montana....

648: Healthy Lifestyles, Science - How Two Horse's Rumps Design American Rocket Systems
The strange, yet true story of how railway gauge tracks in America were designed by the same English who had to fit their carriage tracks into the spaces ground into the rock of ancient Roman roads through Britain by chariots two horses wide....

649: The History Before Web Cam Girls
A look at one of the world's oldest professions and how it has been modernised to keep up with demand....

650: Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention
A look at how product design has allowed inventors to come up with some truly useless stuff....