The oldest intact building I've been in was probably the Gravensteen Castle in Ghent which dates back to 1180. I have been to Anasazi ruins in Arizona that date back to the same period. If you count the transplanted/reconstructed temple ruins at the Pergammon Museum in Berlin, I've gone back to 800 BCE
]]>The late, great Douglas Adams has addressed this obvious flaw in democracy.
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/162557-it-comes-from-a-very-ancient-democracy-you-see-you
]]>A tapeworm with a penchant for bioengineering its host to expel its increasingly intelligent progeny into select sites more amenable to survival will have effectively turned its host into a "smart-ass".
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