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Excerpts From a Recent PBS Masterpiece Documentary on India
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The PBS recently aired a three hour long documentary about the history of India. It traces India history from Indus civilization to the independence of India from British rule.
Here you will find some pictures and videos from that PBS documentary.
A picture of remains of Indus Valley Civilization
The Video below shows Babur the first Mogul who established the mogul rule in India
Akbar was the Grandson of Babur and he almost lost the empire when he was young due to a power struggle at the palace. He survived and the video below describes his personality and his attempt to establish religious tolerance
Akbar created an entire city in Desert and called it Fatehpur Sikri. Legend has it that he built the entire city in honor of famous Sufi saint Sheik Salim Chisti.
Akbar's attempt at creating a synthesis of all the major world religions in sixteenth century
In India both the British and French East India Companies were active. The picture below shows both of them battling for the control of India
also a video showing the celebration of Holi. It is one of the most colorful festival in India
Also Mogul created some of architectural masterpieces and Taj Mahal is one of them. A picture of Taj Mahal
and a Video about Taj Mahal
This is a very small sample of the curated information at PBS web site shown here Please visit the website to get an in depth sense of India's history with many beautiful pictures and videos with an excellent narration by Michael Wood.
PBS will release a DVD of the show and quite possibly an ITune version that one can purchase from Apple store.
Jared Diamond on why societies collapse - TED.com
Why do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana, Jared Diamond talks about the signs that collapse is near, and how -- if we see it in time -- we can prevent it.A globally renowned scholar and author, Jared Diamond finds answers to the massive "Why?"s in so-vast-you-don't-notice patterns in history. His bestselling and Pulitzer-winning bookGuns, Germs and Steel looks at the reasons history turned out the way it did -- why European societies conquered the rest of the world instead of the other way around. His latest book,Collapse, asks nearly the opposite: Why do some civilizations fail?
An ecologist, evolutionary biologist and professor of geography and physiology at UCLA, Diamond takes an approach that goes beyond culture and into the impact it has on the environment. As Malcolm Gladwell observes, "Diamond's distinction between social and biological survival is a critical one, because too often we blur the two." Diamond's ability totackle daunting questions (and pose unsettling answers) in a straightforward voice may be reason enough to share his optimism that recognizing a problem paves the way for solving it.
Educators' tip: The website for PBS's mini-series Guns, Germs and Steel offers many resources for further study.
"[Guns, Germs and Steel] is a brilliantly written, passionate, whirlwind tour through 13,000 years of history on all the continents -- a short history of everything about everybody."Paul Ehrlich
Gobekli Tepe, 12.000 years old spirituality.
One of the most important archeological sites in history. The dawn of civilization? Carved spiritual temples made by an advanced pre-historic society? A good reading in: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/gobekli-tepe.html?c=y&page=1
Just how empty is Canada?
via statcan.gc.ca
I recently discovered this map showing which parts of Canada are inhabited. Ecumene means "inhabited earth". The green parts are the main inhabited parts of Canada, the red parts are small pockets of civilization outside the main areas, and the grey and white areas are completely uninhabited! I think it's an incredible visualization of nature's dominance over man in Canadian land use. If you'd like to read more about this, you can read my blog post exploring just how inaccessible much of Canada's wilderness is.
How Long Do We Have?
How Long Do We Have?
About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:
- A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.
- A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.
- From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.
- The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years.
- During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. from bondage to spiritual faith;
2. from spiritual faith to great courage;
3. from courage to liberty;
4. from liberty to abundance;
5. from abundance to complacency;
6. from complacency to apathy;
7. from apathy to dependence;
8. from dependence back into bondage
Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul , Minnesota points out some interesting facts concerning the 2008 Presidential election:
Number of States won by:
Democrats: 19
Republicans: 29
Square miles of land won by:
Democrats: 580,000
Republicans: 2,427,000
Democrats: 580,000
Republicans: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by:
Democrats: 127 million
Republicans: 143 million
Democrats: 127 million
Republicans: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Democrats: 13.2
Republicans: 2.1
Democrats: 13.2
Republicans: 2.1
Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Republican won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..." Olson believes the United States is somewhere between the 'complacency and apathy' phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the 'governmental dependency' phase.
If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal's and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.
If you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message. If you are not, then pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.
