"We will proceed with current land reform with or without sanctions, ... Let that position be known here and abroad and let the commercial farmers tell that to their constituency or constituencies overseas." -Robert Gabriel Mugabe (RGM) In 2000 a campaign of violence and terror rocked the entire Zimbabwe nation to its core. ...
Domain name extensions or TLD's (Top Level Domains) were originally created primarily to give a human an understandable tag to what would normally be a string of numbers e.g. 82.200.101.020. Though the truth is today, these tags are read and resolved by your browser, back into those numbers, before even leaving your computer...
Mapungubwe: Southern Africa's oldest discovered Kingdom In early 1932 in Apartheid South Africa, Mr van Graan and his son were out hunting for game near their farm in the Limpopo Valley, at the confluence area of South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Botswana. In the scorching heat of the day Mr van Graan passed by an old man sitting ...
Viruses from the Latin "virus" meaning poison undoubtedly occupies a crucial role in the earth's biosphere. Yet they defy solid explanation by modern science and there is some question as to whether they are living organisms at all. Viruses exhibit characteristics of both organic life and inorganic, living and non-living. Al...
"If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware... I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sunrise" -Vincent Van Gough T...
Buddha realised that in order to explain and guide people out of suffering and toward enlightenment he must rely upon explaining common human truths in our world that could be seen, recognised and then understood by all. This is one of the reasons why 2500 years later in a completely different time and civilisation we can st...
Prince Siddhartha Gautama (est. 563 - 483 BCE) Prince, warrior, scholar, and teacher. Aka: Sanskrit: Siddhartha Gotama, later: Shakyamuni Buddha or The awakened one of the Shakya clan. "Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do...
"Where there is nothing; where naught is grasped Paranirvana do I call it the utter extinction of ageing and dying."-Shakyamuni Buddha Nirvana is simply the experience of freedom from the cycles of Samsara or the eternal cycles of cause and effect, death and re-birth. There are two stages to Nirvana; firstly to achieve and e...
Tai Chi Chuan or Taijiquan was introduced into China around 540 A.D. by an Indian Buddhist priest named the Boddidharma. At this time the Shaolin order was formed. During the building of their Temple, the emperor's gardeners had just planted new trees, so the temple was named "young" (or new) forest, in Chinese Mandarin Shao...
It really is a most interesting question, one we have been asking for a very, very long time. The ability to understand what another person is thinking at a given moment in time has been equally hailed and dismissed for thousands of years by modern man. I have looked at it holistically and taken all the known (to me) factors...
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