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[davej]

I think you mean MARS Vasko.

[THE LIGHT 7000]

...NO MY FRIEND, IT WAS ACTUALLY SUN, DAVID LETTERMAN WAS TALKING ABOUT LANDING ON SUN...
THERE ARE SOME PANORAMIC VIWES FROM MARS ALREADY, MAINLY FOR TURIST'S, SO MAYBE THEY ARE EXPANDING TURISM,... BUT GUESS WHAT, NOW THERE ARE SOME INFO. THAT THERE IS ONE OTHER SUN WITH SAME SPIN, I.E. ROTATION LIKE OURS, SO I AM GUESSING THEY HAVE TO DECIDE NOW ON WHICH "SUN" STAR, THEY ARE GOING TO PLAN LANDING... DIFFICOULT FOR ME TO MAKE DECISSION... WELL THAT'S LIFE ALL ABOUT...ALL THE BEST- THE LIGHT 7000

[matz]

fyromians have at least the same relation to the ancient macedonians that the modern greeks have to the ancient Athrnians, Thebans, Spartans...And you're completely right...this thread is c..p.

[yiannis]

The NASA program is about landing humans on MARS. Nothing to do with the SUN! Surely you can understand the practical difficulties, in developing a spacecraft with a heat insulating jacket, capable of withstanding a few million Celsius degrees of heat!NASA in detail:
-Seven non-manned missions to the moon by the end of 2010.
-Abandoning the space-shuttles by 2010 and developing a new cheaper and reliable shuttle by 2013(that means that NASA won't have a shuttle - they'll have to rely on the Russians).
- New shuttle to be used for landing Astronauts on the moon. Explore the possibilities of permanent presence between 2013-2016.
- Manned mission to Mars after 2016.

[Dimitrios Poliorketes]

fyromians have at least the same relation to the ancient macedonians FYROM only occupies 15% of the Pre Phillip Macedonian state.The heart of Macedonia and its capitals PELLA , AGAE ( VERGINA) and later THESSALONIKI are all in Greece .Northern Greeks thus have the closest relation to the ancient MACEDONIANS and some Southern Greeks esspecially from SPARTA and Western CRETEhave distent DORIC ties to the MACEDONIANS via the DORIANS.The DORIANS were from MACEDONIA.FYROMs are decendents of slavs Perhaps a small percentage have some genes from upper macedonia.
that the modern greeks have to the ancient Athrnians, Thebans, Spartans... as well as the MACEDONIANS ,EPIROTES,THESSALIANS - Northern Greeks are just as Greek as the southerners in fact they are closer to the original indo european stock then most southerners and much more so then Agean Islanders and Cypriots who have stronger more mediteranean pre aryan blood lines .Greek tribes originated in Northern Greece not the south.The 1st Oracle was as Dodna in Epirus the Greek Gods resided on Olympus in MAKEDONIA ( means tall ones in Greek).As historian BRITISH Nicholas Hammond says the earliest ancestors of the Greeks resided in northern Greece.The name MAKEDON in Herdotus is associated with the HELLAS of achilles.ATG considered Achilles of Hellas his lengendary ancestor. The MACEDONIANS were the HELLENES that took the name MAKEDON when the tribes of HELLAS settled in the PINDUS region -- SEE HERODOTUS!!!

[DimitriosPoliorketes]

http://www.cc.ece.ntua.gr/~conster/Page ... ptions.htm ( INSPRICTIONS DO NOT LIE) The native tongue of Macedonia was a very primitive Greek dialect that was undoubtably North Western Greek akin to Doric.150 words discovered in Macedonia nearly all are Greek with a few Thracio Illyrian loaner words.Because the Macedonian Dialect was an old dialect it was barely comprehsible to speakers of ATTIC GREEK in the South. The Macedonian court adopted the Attic Greek
while the common folks spoke the traditional Doric dialect. THERE IS NO ARCHEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF ANY NON GREEK LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT PELLA AND VIRGINA.THE EVIDENCE IS CLEAR CUT .

[stavros]

i think you misunderstood me. sorry. macedonians are ancient greeks?

[Pasko]

If you read Chronicle of Monemvasia or Strabo's Geography or Constantine Porphyrogenitus you will
know that Greeks have no link to Ancient Greeks too
,what is more ,there are strong proof that most of the Greeks are Slavs by descendant!

[yiannis]

Dear Pasko, how nice of you to stop by!I've read both Strabo's Geography as well as Constantine Porphyrogenitus "De Administrando Imperio" as well as numerus other books on Slavonic settlement in Greece. It's you who haven't read a bit, that's why you believe everything you read on propaganda internet sites!In any case, even assuming that modern day Greeks are not Greeks, still doesn't make modern day Slavomacedonians descentants of AtG! Kapish?

[Dimitrios Poliorketes]

While no race is entirely pure the Slavic settlements in Greece had little effect upon the native populations of Greece.Absorbing some Slavic blood did not mean the entire population completely was washed of their Greek genes.Ancient Greeks absorbed some blood from neighbooring states such as Thrace Illyria as well as pre Hellenic populations that does not mean they ceased to be Greek .If you read the works of anthropologist Careleton Coon ,GL Angel Debt and others all conclude their has been a remarkable degree of genetic continuity in Greece since the Bronze age.Every group has absorbed others into their ethnicities.EX Anglo Saxon s in Britan absorbed earlier Celtic Roman and native Briton elements to form the basis of modern England and then added some Norman Viking strains but of that does not change the fact that the composite of these groups are all English. No group has ever been pure this of course includes Greeks.In fact Greek speaking people originating in Macedonia and northern Greece conquered earlier pre Greek culture in the Greek pennisula the way the Anglo Saxon s conquered the part of Britan that became England.The French are a composite of Gualish Kelts Romans and Germanic Franks.Purity never existed in ancient days nor does it exist today.

[stavros]

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[Wolfie]

To get back to the subject at hand, I would imagine Alexander picked up a fair amount of Persian, considering Persian soldiers permeated his army and bulked it out quite considerably. He took a Persian eunuch as a companion and servant, if not a lover. I would say that's grounds for learning quite a bit of Persian. Fluent? Depends on your definition of fluent. Did he speak it daily instead of Greek or Macedonian? Probably not. Could he converse with Persian nobles, generals and probably Bagoas enough to be comprehended and corrected? I'd be surprised if he couldn't. Very surprised.Consider how many words and phrases from other languages pop up in English, and vice versa, just from books and television. We don't hear French daily but we probably know more French words and phrases than we think. Surely there were Persians babbling at each other around Alexander and his generals on a regular enough basis that they picked up enough to understand what was being said. If not, that would have be the most inept army ever, and I think history has proven they were anything but inept or adaptable. Wolfie

[ecceego]

I am a bit afraid to ask....but what is "The Light 7000?
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