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To: Entropy Squared
You know your post reminds me of something.

They have these ruins that were left from long long ago there and they call it "The Great Zimbabwe". It is something that the people there are immensely proud of and depictions of it are on their money. The reason they are so proud of it is because the whites had always claimed that the blacks could never have built anything like it- the Portugese who first found it assumed it must've been built by the Queen of Sheba- (or so I was told while I was there), but archeologists finally proved that the black Africans did, indeed construct it, if memory serves- between the 12th and 15th centuries. If you're in Zimbabwe and you've already done Vic Falls, it's worth a look and is a good way to spend a day.

Anyway, at the rate things are going there now, the Great Zimbabwe will surely look like high architecture to the country's citizens before much longer.

8 posted on 07/08/2002 5:20:59 AM PDT by Prodigal Son
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To: Prodigal Son
There was once a kingdom centred on Timbuktu in which a twelve year old girl could walk the width of the kingdom carrying a bag of diamonds, with no fear of being molested or robbed.
12 posted on 07/08/2002 6:36:54 AM PDT by Clive
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