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51: Greek Antiques, Alexander, Hannibal, Attila and Ataturk Are New Europe !
The Europe coming may include the African side and the Asian side as well as now most of the European side of the Greek and later Roman Empires, if E.U. delegates have their way. As well it has all the Germanic and Hun bits up to the Arctic, and Celtic Ireland and Scotland, who with the Germans had been beyond the pale. That is, too feisty....

52: Roman Antiques, Teutonic Knights, Charlemagne, Wenceslas, Ataturk- New Europeans
The coming together of so many new nations to create a greater, or Metro Europe just keeps surprising us. Now a Europe from the Arctic to north Africa and West Asia is the talk of the halls in Brussels. What are they putting in their lunchtime brownies? We think the idea is great, the wider Europe....

53: Greek Antiques, Olympic Freedom Torch - Left Athens For Tibet Today
Television shows us Chinese police hit with clubs men in saffron robes in their holy city. Then, we see in Athens an Athenian woman hold the torch in a circle of five, and hand it to an Athenian dressed Chinese woman....

54: Roman Aniques, Modern Europe - Sahara to Sweden
The opening of talks between east and west Europe now seems to open to north Africa and west Asia. Here we look at Roman spas in the Sahara. A Swede might one day winter here with out need of a passport....

55: Roman Antiques, Modern Europe - Who Are The Sting Rays In The Boat?
Some visionaries see a wider Europe that combines the old Roman Empire around the sea with the Germanics and Baltics to the Pole, and the Slavs to the east and Moors from Morocco to Turkey. Do we see any problems? Alas yes....

56: American Antiques, Power, Wealth, Vision - How NAFTA Helps More Than It Hurts
The vibrancy of trade agreements between nations shows that some are hurt, most are helped much more, and the nation thrives. NAFTA has enriched America, Canada and Mexico, even as we each struggle with low cost China....

57: American Antiques, Reagan, NAFTA, - The Bigger The Better
There has been honest worry in the election debates about whether the North American Free Trade Agreement has been good overall, for all three partners. The books say yes, but all feel pain of factory jobs to China. Even Mexico....

58: American Antiques, Ronald Reagan, Technocracy - No More Depression with NAFTA
A young lad named Reagan, brought up in the horrible depression was influenced as were many that if only North America became as one it would be as mighty and self sustaining as Russia, to the benefit of America and all....

59: Chinese Antiques, Napoleon - Let the Dragon Sleep. Who Listened?
Even mighty Napoleon, who got to the Pyramids of Egypt and to the burning ruins of Moscow, at his greatest said of China it was a sleeping dragon and best to let it sleep....

60: Greek Antiques - Athens was Venus, Rome was Mars
Life in Athens was a struggle from day 500 B.C.E. and seems to stayed that way throughout the history of Greece. Beset by much more powerful Persia from the East for hundreds of years, these democratic pioneers fought until they were finally overcome from Rome in the west. So much for democratic ideals for centuries on earth....