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Gulf War (1990)
Due to special connections, Jevees hooked us up with a military tanker. We are not sure if we feel like are target or if we feel safe. Needless to say, we were making tracks through Iraq.
Bush commended the invasion of Kuwait led by Saddam Hussein and began rallying opposition to Iraq in the U.S. After the meeting with King Fahd; Fahd asked for ...
Leaving Iraq
... born about 2704 BC, became a Hebrew Patriarch. He lived to be 950 years old, managed to save humanity and our ecosystem at the age of 598 with his engineering and navigational skills. He led his people to Mesopotamia and supervised its cultivation to regenerate mankind as we know it.
Sargon, the Sumerian, founded Babylon about 5000 years ago. His mother bore him in secret, made a float of reeds, coated it with ...
Tower of Babel II
... and attempted to recover Dante’s fame on behalf of the State. In 1465 painter Domenico di Michelino was commissioned to memorialize Florence’s favorite literary son in the most prestigious location on the planet, the Duomo of the powerful City-State. He pictured Dante in front of the 3 parts of his epic – Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. Not to leave out any opportunity to brown-nose for his next ...
Tower of Babel I
... and re-built about 610 BC by Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon. It was a brick ziggurat dedicated to Marduk, an all purpose god of sun, water, vegetation, judgment, and magic.
The Great Ziggurat was 91 meters square and 91 metres (300 ft) high, well documented by Arabs, Greeks and Romans. A stone tablet found at the site in 1917 even has a plan and elevation of the tower, known as the Babylon ...
The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
... friendly reception in the Middle East.
Jordan is nearly all desert and one color: sand. The Dead Sea is the lowest spot on earth at 1388 feet below sea level which gives Jordan the odd distinction of being deeper than Mount Obama is tall (1,319 ft, Antigua). The Jordan River separates Israel from Jordan, drains the nearby mountains, terminates in the Dead Sea which has no outlet except ...
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