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"I wonder if it was man made erosion (as in, logging forests) which caused the bay to fill.

There's a typo in the first inset box... John Kraft, not Chris Kraft... someone's daydreaming about a nice fishing boat!"

The Euphrates did the same thing. Ur was once a seaside town, it is many miles inland now. Also, Chris Kraft was the director of NASA at one time.

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I believe he was the first flight director at JSC and laid the groundwork for systemizing flight operations which have withstood the test of time.

The article on Troy is fascinating. If Homer did such a good job describing the geography I wonder why the author feels it was necessary to ascribe the wooden horse to myth.