| "THE LIGHTER SIDE OF HISTORY" or "FRACTURED HISTORY TALES" TAKE 2 |
| More Buttons To Play With! |
| A Spartan, on going to war, complained to his mother that his sword was rather short. "Then get one step nearer," she said. (sounds like my mom was I was growing up, except she would never let me play with sharp objects! gee wiz!) |
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| the morning, two legs at noon, and upon three legs in the evening?" ANSWER: "Man" *** winner is Chris W. Jan. 3, 2009 |
| To set the record straight, "HERPES" was not one of the Greek Gods! (Geez!) doc.2008 |
| Discussion in the club: My woman is a angel, says the first man. You're lucky, says the other, mine still lives! (modern 2006) |
| "GIVE ME 5" |
| "The 2nd Riddle!" What occurs once in every minute twice in every moment yet never in a thousand years? ANSWER: "M" *** winners are Fred Haskin. & Chris W. Jan.9,2009 |
| "The 3rd Riddle!" What is the most well known Greek legend? ANSWER: "The labours of Herakles (Hercules)" winner is Fred Haskin Jan.13th,2009 |
| "The 4th Riddle!" What are Pandora's symbols? ANSWER: "Strife, War, Famine, Illnesses and Hope. " winner is Fred Haskin Jan.15th,2009 |
| "The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." -Cicero, 55 B.C.E. |
| "Most ideas about teaching are not new, but not everyone knows the old ideas." -Euclid, ~300 B.C.E. |
"The 5th Riddle!" What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees, Up, up it goes, And yet never grows?" |
| The 6th Riddle!" |
| Igor Kondenko (Ukraine) Image name: Labyrinth Congratulations & a Great Job, Igor! |
| "The 7th Riddle!" |
| "The 8th and final Riddle!" "Runs over fields and woods all day |
| By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. --Socrates (470-399 B.C.) |
| The kind of events that once took place will by reason of human nature take places again. --Thucydides |
| Seeing a woman all dressed up for a trip to the city, Socrates remarked, "I suspect that your trip is not to see the city, but for the city to see you. --Socrates (470-399 B.C.) |
| The game of chess is thought to have originated in what is now northern India or Afghanistan sometime before 600 AD: The oldest written references to chess date from then, but there are unverified claims that chess existed as early as 100 AD. HOWEVER: We weren't there and since chess is a CLASSICAL Game and GREECE is considered a CLASSICAL country, who's to say the GREEKS invented the game? After all if you look on the map Greece isn't that far away. RIGHT? |