20.3.11

revolution.evolution.ottomanempire.africa/asia turmoil..etc...

...the last few days have kept us busy following events in Japan...truly a disaster,earthquake, tsunami and now the escape of radiation from the 5 atomic power reactors in the quake zone.
For a few days the efforts in North africa by the inhabitants of a number of countries have almost taken second place in the news.
Finally,a new coalition has made attempts to take a shot at this idiot in Libya.
to give you an idea as to what this region looks like today...here is an updated map:

Spanish....you really wanted to know...right?

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Spanish or Castilian is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia during the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the later Medieval period.

Modern Spanish developed with the "Readjustment of the Consonants" that began in 15th century. The language continues to adopt foreign words from a variety of other languages, as well as developing new words. Spanish was taken most notably to the Americas as well as to Africa and Asia Pacific with the expansion of the Spanish Empire between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, where it became the most important language for government and trade.
In 1999, there were according to Ethnologue 358 million people speaking Spanish as a native language and a total of 417 million speakers worldwide. Currently these figures are up to 400 and 500 million people respectively. Spanish is the second most natively spoken language in the world, after Mandarin Chinese. Mexico contains the largest population of Spanish speakers. Spanish is one of the six official languages of the United Nations, and used as an official language of the European Union, and Mercosur. Spanish is the second most studied language in the world, after English.

2.3.11

revolution.evolution.ottomanempire

Incredible historical changes in the region of North Africa. It's been a long time in coming nobody has any idea where this will lead...
The best thing that could happen would be a group of intelligent natives of the region to get together and form the United States of Northern Africa...