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Hello,
Just downloaded from the web the program "google earth"- I am sure it has been round for ages(I hear about these things much after the fact) but for anyone who hasn't heard of it, it is a world satellite tool,( not in real time) to zone in on far off and distant places. I just pulled up Persepolis- was a bit disappointed.
Has anyone used this program to see any of the ancient sites Alexander would have visited?
Best regards,
Dean.

GGÇÖday Dean.I hope this wonGÇÖt be taken the wrong way, but the software is evidently American.By which, I mean that a search for Sparta may possibly turn up the Leonidas caf+¬, round the corner from McDonalds in Georgia, but not Greece. It seems to be able to turn up a flatulent footballer filching phags* in Fort Worth, but outside the USA the map details become rather sparse. In some places it is near non existent. A marvellous idea though.Possibly put together with the geographical/historical knowledge of the 43rd President?Paralus*Cigrarettes - the software won't allow me the Australian slang which begins with an "f". It also describes a homsexual which, I assume, is what it's taken issue with. It substituted "nice persons". How very interesting. I shall have to remember that should there ever be a thread on Alexander's sexuality. If "nice persons" appears in a response I post...well you'll all know what I wrote!!

Hi Michael,LOL.and I see what you mean about the U.S. connection.
I typed in "Alexandria" and it went to the city just south of New York-
Not the 3000 year old city founded by Alexander.
Oh well, what the heck-
Best regards,
Dean.

Dean,I am off to Iran tomorrow for a fortnight and hope, work pending, that I have some time in which to see Persepolis. Hopefully better than the Google site and most definitely not a McD's in site (prohibited by the government). Who said tyranny was a bad thing?!Regards,
Atha