One topic that gets lots of coverage in the pseudoscience circle is the so called Face on Mars.Outrageous claims on this "face" ranges from ancient astronauts, aliens to something to do with Jesus!Here are some links on the topic:

• Article in Space.com saying that Mars Face Breaks Under Questioning

Children stories often carry a moral message. This is not a new thing, and has been the case since millennia and across many cultures around the globe.

Sometimes, the moral story is not direct, and indeed can be very deep,and sometimes it is enveloped in satire or even cynicist philosophy.

Outsourcing software development to India has become more and more popular over the last few years, and picked up even more momentum lately. Corporations in the USA has followed this path because a technology worker costs some five times less in India than in the USA.

On the Mediterranean coast west of the city of Alexandria, in Egypt, there is a belt of pumice embedded in the sedimentary stone that covers the landscape there. This article describes this belt and its possible origins.

One island in the Eastern Mediterranean is Thera, now known as Santorini, and is part of the Cyclades off the cost of Greece. This island was a Minoan colony in the Bronze age.

Here is a simplified Family Tree. It is missing several branches, for example siblings of Mohamed Baheyeldin, and their descendants. Perhaps when I get a proper genealogy software, I will include more people. Abd Al Uzza عبد العزى | Nufail نفيل | Al Khattab الخطاب | Omar عمر b. c. 581 Makkah d. Nov. 644 Al Madina : : Omran عمران | El Hosseini الحصيني | Ali El Gada3 علي الجدع | Mohamed محمد | Abdallah عبد الله | Mohamed محمد | Ahmed أحمد b. 1910 El Sakakrah d. Oct. 1996 El Zagazig | Mohamed Baheyeldin محمد بهي الدين b. 1931 El Sakakrah d.

Georgius Elmacinus (also Elmakin or Elmacin) المكين, and in Arabic sources Ibn Al 'Amid إبن العميد . Egyptian Coptic Christian historian. (c. 1223-1274 or 1273 CE / 671 AH). Author of a history of Islam, extending from the time of Prophet Muhammad to the year 1118 C.E.

Samuel Huntington is still going strong.In the March/April 2004 of Foreign Policy, he published an article titled "The Hispanic Challenge"Basically, he continues to create enemies for America, whether real or imagined. First it was the "Islamic Civilization", and the "Confucian Civilization". This time it is the enemy within: The Hispanics!What a hot button it is with many American today, and what effect on immigration will it have?