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Well no one seems to care to explain to me in what the USA is suppose to have the best system So maybe i try <sarcasm> poverty rate in the western world? crime rate under western societies? not been able to play proper soccer? preventing cities from floods after hurricans? having yards instead of meter? using dollar instead of pounds/euro/yen etc. </sarcasm> The perfect system is the one were the majority feels comfortable with itself and its surroundings, it doesnt really matter in what country you live in. A monk in Nepal might live (in our eyes) in terrible poor conditions, but still he might be happier then all the beverly hill chicks with implants, artificial lips and fat wallets... A goat farmer in central turkey might have no money but a little herd of goats and his family and friends, still he might be happier then the wall street broker that has just divorced for the third time... To sum it up it is utter nonsense that this or that is closest to perfect system. Remember you are mostly a product of your enviroment and circumstance, if you would have grown up as son of a fig farmer in syria chances are yould most defenitely NOT think that the USA or Israel is having the perfect system...

A volcanic eruption that may have inspired the myth of Atlantis was up to twice as large as previously believed, according to an international team of scientists. The eruption occurred 3,600 years ago on the Santorini archipelago, whose largest island is Thera. Santorini is located in the Aegean Sea about 125 miles (200 kilometers) southeast of modern-day Greece. full article at National Geographic

Archaeologists have unearthed 40 sarcophagi in what was once the sacred Phoenician burial grounds of Birgi, near the ancient colony of Motya. The tombs were discovered by chance by a group of construction workers excavating the foundations of a house close to the westernmost tip of Sicily near Marsala, culture officials said. via Ansa.it

The U.s. System Is The Closest To Perfect Perfect to what standard? And what system? cheers viggen

sorry wrong answer (imo ofcourse) by the time Jesus died, it was a minute tiny sect somewhere in the outskirts of the empire not a "virus" on rampage...

I am busy reading The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (which is a fascinating book) and the almost right at the beginning i thought, about the rise of christianity, namely when was the tipping point of this new religion to go main stream. From Publishers Weekly: The premise of this facile piece of pop sociology has built-in appeal: little changes can have big effects; when small numbers of people start behaving differently, that behavior can ripple outward until a critical mass or "tipping point" is reached, changing the world. Gladwell's thesis that ideas, products, messages and behaviors "spread just like viruses do" remains a metaphor as he follows the growth of "word-of-mouth epidemics" triggered with the help of three pivotal types. These are Connectors, sociable personalities who bring people together; Mavens, who like to pass along knowledge; and Salesmen, adept at persuading the unenlightened. Now who in early christianity were the connectors, were the Mavens and who were the salesmen, when in your opinion was the tipping point that made christianity spread like a virus? cheers viggen

glad you like them, strange is that at some books in amazon.uk there are no descriptions like in amazon.com so here the books that have no description at amazon.uk but in amazon.com New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan Guide to the Battles of the American Revolution The Anza Trail and the Settling of California The Peopling of British North America Ye Heart of a Man: The Domestic Life of Men in Colonial New England

ok, well here it goes, there should be one or two that you might find interesting... Colonial Period James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights A Guide To The Battles Of The American Revolution Founding Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan Empires Collide: The French and Indian War 1754-1763 The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War After the Conquest of Canada The Anza Trail and the Settling of California The Deadly Politics of Giving: Exchange and Violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown New England Outpost: War and Society in Colonial Deerfield The Peopling of British North America Ye Heart of a Man: The Domestic Life of Men in Colonial New England The Puritan Experiment: New England Society from Bradford to Edwards and of course no book list for pertinax could be without something like this America's Founding Food: The Story of New England Cooking

American History, sources american history in americas or in the USA because that aint the same, right?

I posted some stats in the gallery, pretty interesting stuff, or did you know that there are plenty of Phillipinos visiting Unrv.com regulary? That there is something called Lambeth? That Tasmania has the internet? enjoy...

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In our review section we have reviews from Caesar: A History of the Art of War, Caesar by Christian Meier and The Assassination of Julius Caesar you might find interesting... cheers viggen

The prehistoric marble sculptures of the Cyclades are noted for their spare, elegant lines: they are also notorious for being in large part looted, with few having a known archaeological provenance, and for attracting the attentions of fakers. Recent discoveries on the island of Keros have shown that these enigmatic figurines, and the stone bowls made from the same marble, arguably by the same artists, were deposited in rituals equally puzzling... full article at the Times Online

hehe, those books are served by Amazon so we dont select them ourselves, we just give amazon the theme and they pick what to show... btw, are you guys also thinking that those amazon ads are less intrusive then others as they are well ,relevant, or so i hope? cheers viggen

...that would be me... cheers viggen (i actually used the UN symbol http://www.un.int/intimages/biglogo1.gif and replaced the the middle with a crossed falcata and gladius)

thats called a favicon, and some site have it and some dont, yes we have a little shield, but because we made it that way http://www.unrv.com/favicon cheers viggen

...according to the Wall Street Journal (Biblical scholar Robert Alter says in the WJS these works on the Good Book are heavenly) 5. The Biography of Ancient Israel: National Narratives in the Bible Ilana Pardes, a scholar of comparative literature based in Jerusalem, traces an ancient nation's origins from Exodus through Deuteronomy. Combining anthropology, psychoanalysis, comparative religion and literary analysis, she shows us an epic tale that has as its subject not an individual hero but the Israelite people itself. 4. Leviticus as Literature British anthropologist Mary Douglas takes us on an intellectual adventure with "Leviticus as Literature." No small feat, given that Leviticus is notoriously the driest of biblical books -- it consists mainly of elaborate instructions for the sacrificial cult. But Douglas proposes that these cultic procedures reflect a sophisticated system of thought 3. The Book of God "The Book of God" is an imaginative overview, sensitive to narrative detail and to stylistic nuance, of both Testaments. Josipovici sees how the Bible constitutes a unique kind of literature -- a book, as he says, meant to change your sense of reality 2. The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative The German-born Yale theologian Hans Frei identifies a turning point in the way the world understood the Bible: when 18th- and 19th-century English and German thinkers such as Locke and Kant broke the traditional link between the factual and the allegorical in the Bible. 1. Mimesis The formidable challenge that Erich Auerbach set himself with "Mimesis" is made clear by its subtitle: "The Representation of Reality in Western Literature." But the German scholar succeeded brilliantly, producing a masterwork of 20th-century criticism that also happens to have pioneered a modern literary understanding of the Bible. cheers viggen

hehe, then you need an apple http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/safari/ cheers viggen

The Golden Age of Ravenna in the sixth century was just that. Acres of glittering gold mosaics covered the walls, ceilings and domes of basilicas, churches, mausoleums and palaces. Only a fraction of them survive, but those that do have the power to astonish, their precious metals and gorgeous array of colors imprisoned in millions of glass tesserae, shining as brightly as they did a millennium and a half ago. The Roman emperor Honorius took refuge here from invading armies in 402. Despite his reputation for decadence and folly, his choice to make Ravenna his new capital was a wise one. Its surrounding lagoons and marshes secured its landward side, and its port of Classe kept the sea route open to Constantinople and the still thriving empire in the east. full article at Herald Times