Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Lightning-quick lessons of history

If you can visualize it, you can nail an abstraction. Lawrence of Cyberia, a fellow blogger, put me on to a website, "Maps of War" which spotlights the rise and fall of empires in the Middle East along with the spread of religion around the world. And all in just 90 seconds for each.
It's good to pause and check out the big picture in order to put things into perspective in our troubled patch. (To see a dazzling full screen version, it's well worth clicking on the link http://www.mapsofwar.com.




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