Category Archives: Government & Politics
Virtual Princes, Virtual Wealth
I start by asserting that the fundamental sources of true wealth are in the earth and the sea. Some people create new wealth by transforming the lives and minerals grown in and extracted from these two sources into useful things … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Literature, Demography, Economics, Government & Politics, History, Technology, wealth
Tagged Amancio Ortega, Bernard Arnault, Bill Gates, Carols Slim, Charles Koch, David Koch, Jeff Bezos, King Ranch Heirs, land, Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg, the land, The Leopard by Tomasi di Lampedusa, the sea, Warren Buffett, wealth
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I Wept for Greece
When tears well in my eyes upon reading a passage in a book, I must explore the possible reasons for this. I am only sixty percent through reading “Postcards from Greece,” by Victoria Hislop. Her story is unerringly soulful and … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Literature, Geography, Government & Politics, Greece, History
Tagged "Eleni", "Z", Adolph Hitler, Albania, Alexander K. Pavellas, Alexander of Macedon, Alexander The Great, Anatolia, Armenians, Assyrians, Athens and Sparta, Benito Mussolini, Bulgaria, Cartes Postales from Greece, Christianity, Communists, Constantinople, Costa-Gavras), Democracy, Drachma, Eastern Orthodox, Egypt, eleftheria, eleftheria i thanatos, England, Euro currency, European Union, First World War, France, Freedom or Death, German Army, Golden Age of Greece, Greece, Greek, Greek Church, Greek Civil War, Greek Jews, Holy Roman Empire, Iraq, Islam, Island of Crete, Istanbul, John Fowles, Kingdom of Greece, Konstantinos Pavellas, Last Temptation of Christ, Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Smyrna, Middle East, Nafplio, Nikos Kazantzakis, North Africa, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Turks, Peloponnesian wars, philhellenes, Report to Greco, Republic of Greece, Roman Empire, Romans, Russia, Smyrna, Syria, the Great War, The Magus, Theofonia Pavellas née Smirtis, Treaty of Constantinople, Turkey, Turks, Victoria Hislop
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