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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by specfiction[/i] [br] [b][size=3]History[/size=3][/b] One often wonders why humans, as a species, don't seem to learn from history. Naively, one might think that an essential qualification for an elected leader is that they have some credentials in history--like, for example, your doctor should have a medical degree. But perhaps it doesn't matter. It may be that what we do is more a characteristic of [i]what we are[/i] rather than what we know. BTW, this is the premise of my novel Proteus Rising. As one of many examples of how this sad scenario plays out time after time, here is a recent [url="http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL268062220070926"]talk by Gorbachev[/url] warning the Russian people of how history repeats itself... ____________ Specfiction [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.