I AM WILLING TO ABANDON MYSELF TO THE GENIUS OF THE UNIVERSE AND IN SO DOING I BUILD A SOLID FOUNDATION OF A JOYFUL LIFE. I LIVE IN A SPIRITUAL UNIVERSE WHERE THERE IS ONE CREATIVE SOURCE OF ALL THINGS.
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
EAST INDIA - THE WORLD'S LARGEST DEMOCRACY
THIS COUNTRY CONSTITUTES THE LARGEST PART OF THE SUBCONTINENTAL MASS OF SOUTHEAST ASIA. IT HAS THE LAND FORMS THAT RANGE FROM ARID. IT HAS LAND FORMS THAT RANGE FROM TORRID PLAINS, TROPICAL ISLANDS AND ON PARCHED DESERT TO THE HIGHEST MOUNTAINS IN THE WARD .
IN 1991, 846, 302,000 RESIDENTS WERE RECORD WITH 217 MILLION FOLKS DEFINED AS URBAN DWELLERS. THEIR LIFE EXPECTANCY WAS IN 1991 SIXTY YEARS OLD. THEY HAVE MOSTLY RURAL FOLKS (73%). THE POPULATION IS STILL PRIMARILY RURAL WITH 73% OF THE POPULATION IN THE COUNTRY. THEY HAVE FOUR MAJOR LANGUAGE FAMILIES WITH NUMEROUS LANGUAGES. THE FLAGS CENTER HAS A WHITE AND BLUE WHEEL WITH THE CHAKRA THAT APPEARS ON THE LION'S COLUMN- THE CAPITAL AT SARNATH. THIS CARVING IS OVER 2,000 YEARS OLD. IT IS A NATIONAL EMBLEM. THE CARVING HAS 4 LIONS BACK TO BACK.
THE HISTORY OF INDIA GOES BACK 1000'S OF YEARS OR 100'S OF 1,000S OF YEARS AGO THEY HAD PALEOLITHIC HUNTER/GATHERING CULTURES JUST LIKE IN EUROPE AND ASIA. BY 10,000 YEARS AGO THEY DEVELOPED AGRICULTURE.
BY 2700 B.C. A VARIETY OF SOME OF THE 1ST URBAN CIVILIZATIONS IN THE INDUS VALLEY AND WESTERN INDIA EMERGED. AFTER 1500 B.C., THERE WERE A VARIETY OF STATES AND KINGDOMS THROUGHOUT THE SUBCONTINENT CREATING A LONG HISTORY OF WAR PUNCTUATED BY FOREIGN INVASIONS AND THE BIRTH OF SOME OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST RELIGIONS.
DESPITE THE EXTENT OF ASOKE EMPIRE OF 232 B.C., BRITISH ESTABLISHED A UNIFIED A UNIFIED232 B.C. THE BRITISH ESTABLISHED A UNIFIED EMPIRE THAT COVERED MOST OF THE SUBCONTINENT DURING ITS FINAL CENTURY. AFTER 1858 INDIAWAS RULED BY BRITISH GOVERNMENT. AFTER 1858 INDIA WAS RULED BY BRITISH GOVERNMENT. BY 1885 THE NATIVE INDIANS DEMANDED POWER BY THEMSELVES. IN 1930 A POLICY TO ACHIEVE A FULL NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE WAS ADOPTED . IT WAS A LONG STRUGGLE.
INDIA HAS SEVERAL 1000 ETHNIC GROUPS. TRIBES AND CASTES AND RELIGIONS. THEY HVE CASTES IN EACH REGION. THEY HAVE HAD RELIGIOUS WARS. MUCH OF THEIR ECONOMY IS BASED ON BARTER OR THE EXCHANGE OF GOODS AND SERVICES. THIS SYTEM HAS BEEN DAMPENED BY ECONOMIC ARRANGEMENTS.
THE NDUS VALLEY HAD A LONG HISTORY OF TRADE FROM FROM 2700 TO 1500 BCE. THE WALLED CITADELS IN SOME EARLY CITIES DEVELOPED INTO ELABORATE PALISADES. THEY HAD MOATS TO PROTECT THE MULTITUDE OF IRON AGE AND MIDEAVAL CITIES..
THEY HAVE EIGHT HISTORIC TYPES OF CITIES. THEIR LANDSCAPE IS DOTTED OVER HALF OVER HALF A MILLION VILLAGES. EACH REGION HAS A VILLAGE HAS A DISTINCT FORM. HOLY PLACES HAVE VARIOUS REGIONS AND ARE COMMON WITHIN VILLAGES AND TOWNS. BUT NUMEROUS PILGRIMAGE SITES ARE NOT LOCATED HERE.
ABOUT 1/2 THE PEOPLE EAT RICE AS A STAPLE. SOME EAT WHEAT BARLEY , MAIZE AND MILLET. SOME FOLKS ARE VEGETARIAN SOME EAT MEAT. LOWER CASTE HINDUS EAT MEAT EXCEPT BEEF AND MOST EAT EGGS.
EVERY CASTE AND VILLAGE AND RELIGION HAS ANY CEREMONIES OBSERVED IN RELIGIOUS BASIS. FARMING IS THEIR MEANS OF SUBSISTENCE ON SMALL PLOTS OF LAND. SOME FOLKS HAVE PLANTATIONS SUCH AS TEA, COFFEE CARDOMAN AND RUBBER ARE OF GOOD IMPORTANCE..
SINCE 1994 THEY HAVE A NATIONAL DEBT. THEIR ECONOMY IS EXPANDING AND IS EXPANDING AND HAS BEEN GROWING WITH A WIDE RANGE OF INDUSTRIES. SUCH AS MINING. THEY EXPORT CLOTHING, TEA, AND COMPUTER SOFTWARE TO THE U.S.. THE VARIOUS REGIONS HAVE DIFFERENT TRADITIONS OF LAND TENURE.
INDIA HAS HAD MANY TRADERS , IMPORTERS AND TRADERS, EXPORTERS SINCE THE DAYS OF THE THE INDUS VALLEY. MARKETS WERE HERE AT LEAST YEARS AGO AND COINS HAVE BEEN USED FOR 2500 YEARS. THE IMPORTED AND EXPORTED SINCE THE DAYS OF THE INDUS VALLEY THE INDUS VALLEY WERE HERE AT LEAST 4000 YEARS AGO AND COINS HAVE BEEN FOR 2500 YEARS. THEY IMPORT AND EXPORT MANY MANY EXTENSIVE ITEMS. RUSSIA, U S AND GERMANY AND ENGLAND ARE THEIR IMPORTERS.
THE ENGLISH ADMINISTERED IN THE 19TH CENTURY AND BUILT A NETWORK OF RAILROAD TRACK. THEY HAVE 1.25 MILLION MILES OF ROAD. THE AIRPLANE SERVICES COM IN THE 1980'S. THEIR TRADING PARTNERS ARE RUSSIAN, U.S., AND SOME NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES. INDIA HAS A CASTE SYSTEM AS THE ANCIENT AND MOST BASIC PRINCIPAL OF ORGANIZATIONS OF THE SOCIETY.EACH CASTE TYPICALLY HAD ONE OCCUPATION THAT WAS A SPECIALTY. FARMING WAS OPEN TO ALL. EACH FAMILY BELONGS TO ITS CASTE FOR ITS LIFE TIME.
HINDU RELIGION JUSTIFIES THE DIVISION OF SOCIETY INTO CASTES FOR STATUS. HINDUS BELIEVE IN THE MULTIPLE REINCARNATION OF SOULS. THERE ARE MODERN CASES OF INTERCASTE INTERCAST MARRIAGE IN ALL THE CITIES. THE CASTE SYSTEM DETERMINES HOW PEOPLE DRESS, THEIR DIALECT, WHO THEY SOCIALIZE WITH AND THEIR OCCUPATION.
INDIA IS THE LARGEST DEMOCRACY IN THE WORLD. IT HAS 28 STATES SMALL INDIAN SHOPS MAKE UP A BIG PART OF THE INDIAN ECONOMY. MANY STATE GOVERNMENTS ARE CREATING MORE JOBS FOR THE POOR AS A DIRECT WAY OF HELPING THEM, ARRANGED MARRIAGES ARE TRADITIONAL FEATURE . INHERITANCE PATTERNS VARY.
BABY CARE IS COMPLETED LY RESPONSIBLE OF MOTHERS, SIBLINGS, AND GRANDMOTHER'S. MORE MEN ARE LITERATE THAN WOMEN. MANY 16 YEAR OLD GIRL'S ARE NOT PRESSED TO GO ON TO COLLEGE
EAST INDIANS ARE VERY HOSPITABLE AND GO TO VARIOUS LENGTHS TO HAVE VISITORS FEEL COMFORTABLE. 82% ARE HINDU. THEY HAVE 1000'S OF SHRINES AND HOLY PLACES. HINDUS NORMALLY CREMATE THE DEAD.
THE ARTS ARE HAVE FLOURISHED OVER THE ;LAST TWO CENTURIES AND THEY BUILT A NATIONAL ART INSTITUTE. PAINTING IS AN ANCIENT ACCOMPLISHMENT.
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IN 1991, 846, 302,000 RESIDENTS WERE RECORD WITH 217 MILLION FOLKS DEFINED AS URBAN DWELLERS. THEIR LIFE EXPECTANCY WAS IN 1991 SIXTY YEARS OLD. THEY HAVE MOSTLY RURAL FOLKS (73%). THE POPULATION IS STILL PRIMARILY RURAL WITH 73% OF THE POPULATION IN THE COUNTRY. THEY HAVE FOUR MAJOR LANGUAGE FAMILIES WITH NUMEROUS LANGUAGES. THE FLAGS CENTER HAS A WHITE AND BLUE WHEEL WITH THE CHAKRA THAT APPEARS ON THE LION'S COLUMN- THE CAPITAL AT SARNATH. THIS CARVING IS OVER 2,000 YEARS OLD. IT IS A NATIONAL EMBLEM. THE CARVING HAS 4 LIONS BACK TO BACK.
THE HISTORY OF INDIA GOES BACK 1000'S OF YEARS OR 100'S OF 1,000S OF YEARS AGO THEY HAD PALEOLITHIC HUNTER/GATHERING CULTURES JUST LIKE IN EUROPE AND ASIA. BY 10,000 YEARS AGO THEY DEVELOPED AGRICULTURE.
BY 2700 B.C. A VARIETY OF SOME OF THE 1ST URBAN CIVILIZATIONS IN THE INDUS VALLEY AND WESTERN INDIA EMERGED. AFTER 1500 B.C., THERE WERE A VARIETY OF STATES AND KINGDOMS THROUGHOUT THE SUBCONTINENT CREATING A LONG HISTORY OF WAR PUNCTUATED BY FOREIGN INVASIONS AND THE BIRTH OF SOME OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST RELIGIONS.
DESPITE THE EXTENT OF ASOKE EMPIRE OF 232 B.C., BRITISH ESTABLISHED A UNIFIED A UNIFIED232 B.C. THE BRITISH ESTABLISHED A UNIFIED EMPIRE THAT COVERED MOST OF THE SUBCONTINENT DURING ITS FINAL CENTURY. AFTER 1858 INDIAWAS RULED BY BRITISH GOVERNMENT. AFTER 1858 INDIA WAS RULED BY BRITISH GOVERNMENT. BY 1885 THE NATIVE INDIANS DEMANDED POWER BY THEMSELVES. IN 1930 A POLICY TO ACHIEVE A FULL NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE WAS ADOPTED . IT WAS A LONG STRUGGLE.
INDIA HAS SEVERAL 1000 ETHNIC GROUPS. TRIBES AND CASTES AND RELIGIONS. THEY HVE CASTES IN EACH REGION. THEY HAVE HAD RELIGIOUS WARS. MUCH OF THEIR ECONOMY IS BASED ON BARTER OR THE EXCHANGE OF GOODS AND SERVICES. THIS SYTEM HAS BEEN DAMPENED BY ECONOMIC ARRANGEMENTS.
THE NDUS VALLEY HAD A LONG HISTORY OF TRADE FROM FROM 2700 TO 1500 BCE. THE WALLED CITADELS IN SOME EARLY CITIES DEVELOPED INTO ELABORATE PALISADES. THEY HAD MOATS TO PROTECT THE MULTITUDE OF IRON AGE AND MIDEAVAL CITIES..
THEY HAVE EIGHT HISTORIC TYPES OF CITIES. THEIR LANDSCAPE IS DOTTED OVER HALF OVER HALF A MILLION VILLAGES. EACH REGION HAS A VILLAGE HAS A DISTINCT FORM. HOLY PLACES HAVE VARIOUS REGIONS AND ARE COMMON WITHIN VILLAGES AND TOWNS. BUT NUMEROUS PILGRIMAGE SITES ARE NOT LOCATED HERE.
ABOUT 1/2 THE PEOPLE EAT RICE AS A STAPLE. SOME EAT WHEAT BARLEY , MAIZE AND MILLET. SOME FOLKS ARE VEGETARIAN SOME EAT MEAT. LOWER CASTE HINDUS EAT MEAT EXCEPT BEEF AND MOST EAT EGGS.
EVERY CASTE AND VILLAGE AND RELIGION HAS ANY CEREMONIES OBSERVED IN RELIGIOUS BASIS. FARMING IS THEIR MEANS OF SUBSISTENCE ON SMALL PLOTS OF LAND. SOME FOLKS HAVE PLANTATIONS SUCH AS TEA, COFFEE CARDOMAN AND RUBBER ARE OF GOOD IMPORTANCE..
SINCE 1994 THEY HAVE A NATIONAL DEBT. THEIR ECONOMY IS EXPANDING AND IS EXPANDING AND HAS BEEN GROWING WITH A WIDE RANGE OF INDUSTRIES. SUCH AS MINING. THEY EXPORT CLOTHING, TEA, AND COMPUTER SOFTWARE TO THE U.S.. THE VARIOUS REGIONS HAVE DIFFERENT TRADITIONS OF LAND TENURE.
INDIA HAS HAD MANY TRADERS , IMPORTERS AND TRADERS, EXPORTERS SINCE THE DAYS OF THE THE INDUS VALLEY. MARKETS WERE HERE AT LEAST YEARS AGO AND COINS HAVE BEEN USED FOR 2500 YEARS. THE IMPORTED AND EXPORTED SINCE THE DAYS OF THE INDUS VALLEY THE INDUS VALLEY WERE HERE AT LEAST 4000 YEARS AGO AND COINS HAVE BEEN FOR 2500 YEARS. THEY IMPORT AND EXPORT MANY MANY EXTENSIVE ITEMS. RUSSIA, U S AND GERMANY AND ENGLAND ARE THEIR IMPORTERS.
THE ENGLISH ADMINISTERED IN THE 19TH CENTURY AND BUILT A NETWORK OF RAILROAD TRACK. THEY HAVE 1.25 MILLION MILES OF ROAD. THE AIRPLANE SERVICES COM IN THE 1980'S. THEIR TRADING PARTNERS ARE RUSSIAN, U.S., AND SOME NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES. INDIA HAS A CASTE SYSTEM AS THE ANCIENT AND MOST BASIC PRINCIPAL OF ORGANIZATIONS OF THE SOCIETY.EACH CASTE TYPICALLY HAD ONE OCCUPATION THAT WAS A SPECIALTY. FARMING WAS OPEN TO ALL. EACH FAMILY BELONGS TO ITS CASTE FOR ITS LIFE TIME.
HINDU RELIGION JUSTIFIES THE DIVISION OF SOCIETY INTO CASTES FOR STATUS. HINDUS BELIEVE IN THE MULTIPLE REINCARNATION OF SOULS. THERE ARE MODERN CASES OF INTERCASTE INTERCAST MARRIAGE IN ALL THE CITIES. THE CASTE SYSTEM DETERMINES HOW PEOPLE DRESS, THEIR DIALECT, WHO THEY SOCIALIZE WITH AND THEIR OCCUPATION.
INDIA IS THE LARGEST DEMOCRACY IN THE WORLD. IT HAS 28 STATES SMALL INDIAN SHOPS MAKE UP A BIG PART OF THE INDIAN ECONOMY. MANY STATE GOVERNMENTS ARE CREATING MORE JOBS FOR THE POOR AS A DIRECT WAY OF HELPING THEM, ARRANGED MARRIAGES ARE TRADITIONAL FEATURE . INHERITANCE PATTERNS VARY.
BABY CARE IS COMPLETED LY RESPONSIBLE OF MOTHERS, SIBLINGS, AND GRANDMOTHER'S. MORE MEN ARE LITERATE THAN WOMEN. MANY 16 YEAR OLD GIRL'S ARE NOT PRESSED TO GO ON TO COLLEGE
EAST INDIANS ARE VERY HOSPITABLE AND GO TO VARIOUS LENGTHS TO HAVE VISITORS FEEL COMFORTABLE. 82% ARE HINDU. THEY HAVE 1000'S OF SHRINES AND HOLY PLACES. HINDUS NORMALLY CREMATE THE DEAD.
THE ARTS ARE HAVE FLOURISHED OVER THE ;LAST TWO CENTURIES AND THEY BUILT A NATIONAL ART INSTITUTE. PAINTING IS AN ANCIENT ACCOMPLISHMENT.
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Friday, November 23, 2012
LIFE OF PI - AN ADVENTUROUS MOVIE OF SURVIVAL
THIS MOVIE I SAW THIS WEEKEND WAS QUITE ADVENTUROUS AND SCARY. IT WAS ABOUT AN EASTERN INDIAN FAMILY WITH TWO BOYS WHO HAD TWO BOYS WHO WERE NOT USED TO THE ANIMALS. YOUNG PI WAS TAUGHT A LESSON BY HIS FATHER TO NOT HAND FEED THE BENGAL TIGER. HIS FATHER CAUGHT HIM BEFORE HE WAS JUST ABOUT TO HAVE HIS HAND EATEN. HIS FATHER TIED A GOAT IN FRONT OF THE TIGER AND HE IMMEDIATELY ATE IT.
AS THE STORY GOES BY THEY DECIDED THEY DECIDED TO GO THE ZOO AND MOVE TO CANADA WITH A FEW REMAINING ANIMALS. I ENJOYED THE ARTISTIC WAY AND THE STRUTS OF INDIA LOOKED AND THE BEAUTIFUL OCEAN.
THE FILM SHOWS THE ADULT PI TALKING TO A MOVIE SCRIPT WRITER ABOUT HIS ADVENTURE. A TERRIBLE STORM SINKS THEIR SHIP. YOUNG PI SOME HOW GETS OUTSIDE THE SHIP AND GRABS A LIFE SAVER AND JUMPS ONTO A SMALL BOAT. THE LIFE BOAT HAS A ZEBRA , A JACKAL AND SOME SUPPLIES AND AS HE FINDS A BENGAL TIGER ! THE TIGER EATS THE OTHER ANIMALS AND PI BUILDS A SMALL RAFT TO BE EPARATE FROM THE TIGER. AS THE STORY TURNS INTO MONTHS. NO ONE RESCUES THEMAND FEEDS FISH HE'S CAUGHT AND TRAINS THE TIGER TO TRUST HIM. HE IS NO LONGER AFRAID. THIS ACTOR WAS GOING THROUGH QUITE A LOT OF CHALLENGES ON HIS RAFT WITH FINDING DRINKABLE WATER FOR HIMSELF AND THE TIGER. IT WAS VERY AMAZINGTO WATCH AS THE SCENERY KEPT CHANGING AND THEAUDIENCE NEVER KNEW IF THE TIGER WAS GOING TO ATTACK HIM OR NOT. NO ONE RESCUES THEM FOR A MONTH AND PI CATCHES FISH AND TRAINS THE TIGER TO TRUST HIM AS HE FEEDS HIM FISH AND EVENTUALLY THEY BOTH SLEEP ON THE BOAT. HE'S NO LONGER AFRAID OF HIM. THEY SHOW FLYING FISH COMING BY ONE DAY. THEY SURVIVE MORE STORMS AND HE LEARNS THE TIGER CAN SWIM WELL. AS A VEGETARIAN HE LEARNS TO EAT RAW FISH TO SURVIVE AND CATCH DRINKING WATER AS IT RAINS FOR HIMSELF AND THE TIGER.
AS WE THINK THEY ARE GOING TO DIE THE BOAT FLOATS TO A LUSCIOUS ISLAND WITH LOTS OF FRUIT. BOTH HE AND THE TIGER BECOME HEALTHY AGAIN.
HE DECIDES TO REPLENISH HIS BOAT AGAIN AS HE DOES NOT WANT TO LIVE ALONE ON THE ISLAND. THE TIGER COMES WITH HIM. AFTER MANY DAYS HE FINALLY FLOATS TO MEXICO AND IS RESCUED BY SOME
MEN. THE TIGER GOES HIS OWN WAY AND HE CRIES AS HE WILL.NEVER SEE HIM AGAIN.
AS THE STORY GOES BY THEY DECIDED THEY DECIDED TO GO THE ZOO AND MOVE TO CANADA WITH A FEW REMAINING ANIMALS. I ENJOYED THE ARTISTIC WAY AND THE STRUTS OF INDIA LOOKED AND THE BEAUTIFUL OCEAN.
THE FILM SHOWS THE ADULT PI TALKING TO A MOVIE SCRIPT WRITER ABOUT HIS ADVENTURE. A TERRIBLE STORM SINKS THEIR SHIP. YOUNG PI SOME HOW GETS OUTSIDE THE SHIP AND GRABS A LIFE SAVER AND JUMPS ONTO A SMALL BOAT. THE LIFE BOAT HAS A ZEBRA , A JACKAL AND SOME SUPPLIES AND AS HE FINDS A BENGAL TIGER ! THE TIGER EATS THE OTHER ANIMALS AND PI BUILDS A SMALL RAFT TO BE EPARATE FROM THE TIGER. AS THE STORY TURNS INTO MONTHS. NO ONE RESCUES THEMAND FEEDS FISH HE'S CAUGHT AND TRAINS THE TIGER TO TRUST HIM. HE IS NO LONGER AFRAID. THIS ACTOR WAS GOING THROUGH QUITE A LOT OF CHALLENGES ON HIS RAFT WITH FINDING DRINKABLE WATER FOR HIMSELF AND THE TIGER. IT WAS VERY AMAZINGTO WATCH AS THE SCENERY KEPT CHANGING AND THEAUDIENCE NEVER KNEW IF THE TIGER WAS GOING TO ATTACK HIM OR NOT. NO ONE RESCUES THEM FOR A MONTH AND PI CATCHES FISH AND TRAINS THE TIGER TO TRUST HIM AS HE FEEDS HIM FISH AND EVENTUALLY THEY BOTH SLEEP ON THE BOAT. HE'S NO LONGER AFRAID OF HIM. THEY SHOW FLYING FISH COMING BY ONE DAY. THEY SURVIVE MORE STORMS AND HE LEARNS THE TIGER CAN SWIM WELL. AS A VEGETARIAN HE LEARNS TO EAT RAW FISH TO SURVIVE AND CATCH DRINKING WATER AS IT RAINS FOR HIMSELF AND THE TIGER.
AS WE THINK THEY ARE GOING TO DIE THE BOAT FLOATS TO A LUSCIOUS ISLAND WITH LOTS OF FRUIT. BOTH HE AND THE TIGER BECOME HEALTHY AGAIN.
HE DECIDES TO REPLENISH HIS BOAT AGAIN AS HE DOES NOT WANT TO LIVE ALONE ON THE ISLAND. THE TIGER COMES WITH HIM. AFTER MANY DAYS HE FINALLY FLOATS TO MEXICO AND IS RESCUED BY SOME
MEN. THE TIGER GOES HIS OWN WAY AND HE CRIES AS HE WILL.NEVER SEE HIM AGAIN.
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
A PLACE WITH THE LEAST EXPLORED ANIMAL LIFE IS PAPUA NEW GUINEA
THEIR CULTURE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA IS MANLY SIDE AND ABOUT 1000 DIFFERENT CULTURAL GROUPS SIDE AND ABOUT 1000 DIFFERENT CULTURAL GROUPS EXISTS IN PAPUA/ MOST HAVE THEIR OWN LANGUAGE IN WHICH THEY TAKE PRIDE. MANY DIFFERENT STYLES OF CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS HAVE EMERGED . EACH GROUP HAS CREATED ITS OWN EXPRESSIVE ITS OWN EXPRESSIVE FORMS ART ART DANCE, WEAPONS, COSTUMES, SINGING AND MUSIC AND OTHER FORESTS.
THIS COUNTRY IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S LEAST EXPLORED. MANY SPECIES OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS ARE THOUGHT TO EXIST IN THE INTERIOR OF OF PAPUA. A MAJORITY OF THE POPULATION STILL LIVE IN TRADITIONAL SUBSISTENCE BASED AGRICULTURE. THE COUNTRY WANTS THE TRADITIONAL VILLAGES TO REMAIN AS VIABLE AS PAPUA NEW GUINEA. MANY LIVE IN POPVERTY. AFTER BEING RULED BY 3 EXTERNAL POWERS SINCE 1884 NEW GUINEA GAINED INDEPENDENCE FROM AUSTRALIA IN 1975.
HUMAN REMAINS DATE TO ABOUT 50,000 B.C. THEY MIGRATED FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA. PEOPLE ORIGINATED IN AFRICA 50,000 TO 70,000 YEARS AGO.
BY 7000 B.C. AGRICULTURE WAS DEVEPED INDEPENDANTLY. IT IS THE WORLD WHERE PEOPLE INDEPENDANTLY DOMESTICATED PLANTS. BY 500 B.C. THESE PEOPLE OF AUSTRONESIAN CAME TO THIS REGION. THEY INTRODUCED POTTERY, PIGS, AND FISHING TECHNIQUES. DURING 18TH CENTURY THE SWEET POTATOE WAS TAKEN TO NEW GUINEA AND WAS INTRODUCED TO THE MALEZOAS BY TRADERS. SWEET POTATOES TRANSFORMED AGRICULTURAL AS IT BECAME A STAPLE. AND GAVE RISE TO A SINGULAR INCREASE INCREASE IN POPULAATIONS.
THE NEW GUINEA USED TO PRACTICE HEAD HUNTING AND CANNIBALISM. BUT IT IS NOT PRACTICED NOW. A MISSIONARY FOUND 10,000 SKULLS IN AN ISLAND'S LONG HOUSE IN 1900!
LITTLE WAS KNOWN ABOUT EUROPEANS HERE ON THE ISLAND UNTIL THE 19TH CENTURY. ALTHOUGH THE SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE EXPLORERS DISCOVERED NEW GUINEA IN THE 16TH CENTURY. 5000 YEARS AGO THE FOLKS FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA COLLECTED THE BIRD OF PARADISE. THE SOUTH HALF OF OF PAPUA WAS COLONIZED BY ENGLAND IN 1904. IN 1905 AUSTRALIA TOOK ON ITS ADMINISTRATION.
DURING WWII MANY JAPANESE, AUSTRALIAN AND U.S. SOLDIERS DIED DURING THE CAMPAIGN. BY 1975 PAPUA PAPUA WAS OPEN TO THE UNITED NATIONS - A PEACEFUL INDEPENDENCE FROM AUSTRALIA IN 1978. ANOTHER UPRISING CLAIMED 20,000 IN 1978 CLAIMED 2000 LIVES IN 1997.
ANTICHINESE CHINESE WERE RIOTING INVOLVING 1000'S OF PEOPLE IN 2009.
NEW GUINEAS, HEAD OF STATE IS QUEEN ELIZABETH II. THIS COUNTRY HAS DIVERSE GEOGRAPHY WITH EXTREMELY RUGGED MOUNTAINS. A SPINE OF MOUNTAINS RUNS THE LENGTH OF NEW GUINEA. THEY HAVE DENSE RAIN FORESTS. THEIR HIGHEST PEAK 4500' ABOVE SEA LEVEL. THEY HAVE ACTIVE VOLCANOES. MANY BIRD SPECIES FOUND IN AUSTRALIA. ONE NOTABLE FEATURE IS COMMON FOR FOR THE TWO LAND MASSES IS THE EXISTENCE OF SEVERAL SPECIES OF MAMMALS, KANGAROOS AND POSSOMS.
MANY OF THE ISLANDS WITHIN PAPUA TERRITORY INCLUDING VARIOUS ISLANDS WERE NEVER LINKED TO NEW GUINEA. ONLY 3% OF THE LAND OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA IS IN THE PRIVATE HANDS. IT IS HELD UNDER A 99 YEAR LEASE.STATE LEASE.
THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF ETHNIC GROUPS INDIGENOUS TO NEW GUINEA. MOST ARE KNOWN TO NEW GUINEA. MOST ARE KNOWN AS PAPUANS WHOSE ANCESTORS ARRIVED IN NEW GUINEA
10,000 YEARS AGO. MANY TRIBES STILL HAVE ONLY MARGINAL CONTACT.
IN 1975 THERE WERE 40,000 AUSTRALIAN AND CHINESE FOLKS IN PAPUA. PAPUA HAVE GREATER DENSITY OF LANGUAGE THAN ANY OTHER ON EARTH EXCEPT VANIATU.
THEY CATCH MALARIA HERE. THE COURTS AGREE TO HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND BELIEVE . AND 96% PERCENT OF THE PEOPLE DEFINE THEMSELVES AS MEMBERS OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. THEY ALSO HAVE GROUPS THAT ARE ACTIVE MUSLIMS AND NON CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS GROUPS THAT ARE ACTIVE. THEY MAKE AND CREATE MONEY WITH EXPRESSIVE FORMS OF ART , DANCE WEAPONS, COSTUMES. MOST REMOTE VILLAGES GROW SOME CROPS SUCH AS YAMS, AND OTHER ROOT CROPS. THEY HUNT FISH. THEY LIKE TO CARVE AND PAINT WOODEN FORMS AND MASKS. THEY ARE FAMOUS FOR STORYTELLING. THEY MAKE WOODEN CANOES.
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THIS COUNTRY IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S LEAST EXPLORED. MANY SPECIES OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS ARE THOUGHT TO EXIST IN THE INTERIOR OF OF PAPUA. A MAJORITY OF THE POPULATION STILL LIVE IN TRADITIONAL SUBSISTENCE BASED AGRICULTURE. THE COUNTRY WANTS THE TRADITIONAL VILLAGES TO REMAIN AS VIABLE AS PAPUA NEW GUINEA. MANY LIVE IN POPVERTY. AFTER BEING RULED BY 3 EXTERNAL POWERS SINCE 1884 NEW GUINEA GAINED INDEPENDENCE FROM AUSTRALIA IN 1975.
HUMAN REMAINS DATE TO ABOUT 50,000 B.C. THEY MIGRATED FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA. PEOPLE ORIGINATED IN AFRICA 50,000 TO 70,000 YEARS AGO.
BY 7000 B.C. AGRICULTURE WAS DEVEPED INDEPENDANTLY. IT IS THE WORLD WHERE PEOPLE INDEPENDANTLY DOMESTICATED PLANTS. BY 500 B.C. THESE PEOPLE OF AUSTRONESIAN CAME TO THIS REGION. THEY INTRODUCED POTTERY, PIGS, AND FISHING TECHNIQUES. DURING 18TH CENTURY THE SWEET POTATOE WAS TAKEN TO NEW GUINEA AND WAS INTRODUCED TO THE MALEZOAS BY TRADERS. SWEET POTATOES TRANSFORMED AGRICULTURAL AS IT BECAME A STAPLE. AND GAVE RISE TO A SINGULAR INCREASE INCREASE IN POPULAATIONS.
THE NEW GUINEA USED TO PRACTICE HEAD HUNTING AND CANNIBALISM. BUT IT IS NOT PRACTICED NOW. A MISSIONARY FOUND 10,000 SKULLS IN AN ISLAND'S LONG HOUSE IN 1900!
LITTLE WAS KNOWN ABOUT EUROPEANS HERE ON THE ISLAND UNTIL THE 19TH CENTURY. ALTHOUGH THE SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE EXPLORERS DISCOVERED NEW GUINEA IN THE 16TH CENTURY. 5000 YEARS AGO THE FOLKS FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA COLLECTED THE BIRD OF PARADISE. THE SOUTH HALF OF OF PAPUA WAS COLONIZED BY ENGLAND IN 1904. IN 1905 AUSTRALIA TOOK ON ITS ADMINISTRATION.
DURING WWII MANY JAPANESE, AUSTRALIAN AND U.S. SOLDIERS DIED DURING THE CAMPAIGN. BY 1975 PAPUA PAPUA WAS OPEN TO THE UNITED NATIONS - A PEACEFUL INDEPENDENCE FROM AUSTRALIA IN 1978. ANOTHER UPRISING CLAIMED 20,000 IN 1978 CLAIMED 2000 LIVES IN 1997.
ANTICHINESE CHINESE WERE RIOTING INVOLVING 1000'S OF PEOPLE IN 2009.
NEW GUINEAS, HEAD OF STATE IS QUEEN ELIZABETH II. THIS COUNTRY HAS DIVERSE GEOGRAPHY WITH EXTREMELY RUGGED MOUNTAINS. A SPINE OF MOUNTAINS RUNS THE LENGTH OF NEW GUINEA. THEY HAVE DENSE RAIN FORESTS. THEIR HIGHEST PEAK 4500' ABOVE SEA LEVEL. THEY HAVE ACTIVE VOLCANOES. MANY BIRD SPECIES FOUND IN AUSTRALIA. ONE NOTABLE FEATURE IS COMMON FOR FOR THE TWO LAND MASSES IS THE EXISTENCE OF SEVERAL SPECIES OF MAMMALS, KANGAROOS AND POSSOMS.
MANY OF THE ISLANDS WITHIN PAPUA TERRITORY INCLUDING VARIOUS ISLANDS WERE NEVER LINKED TO NEW GUINEA. ONLY 3% OF THE LAND OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA IS IN THE PRIVATE HANDS. IT IS HELD UNDER A 99 YEAR LEASE.STATE LEASE.
THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF ETHNIC GROUPS INDIGENOUS TO NEW GUINEA. MOST ARE KNOWN TO NEW GUINEA. MOST ARE KNOWN AS PAPUANS WHOSE ANCESTORS ARRIVED IN NEW GUINEA
10,000 YEARS AGO. MANY TRIBES STILL HAVE ONLY MARGINAL CONTACT.
IN 1975 THERE WERE 40,000 AUSTRALIAN AND CHINESE FOLKS IN PAPUA. PAPUA HAVE GREATER DENSITY OF LANGUAGE THAN ANY OTHER ON EARTH EXCEPT VANIATU.
THEY CATCH MALARIA HERE. THE COURTS AGREE TO HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND BELIEVE . AND 96% PERCENT OF THE PEOPLE DEFINE THEMSELVES AS MEMBERS OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. THEY ALSO HAVE GROUPS THAT ARE ACTIVE MUSLIMS AND NON CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS GROUPS THAT ARE ACTIVE. THEY MAKE AND CREATE MONEY WITH EXPRESSIVE FORMS OF ART , DANCE WEAPONS, COSTUMES. MOST REMOTE VILLAGES GROW SOME CROPS SUCH AS YAMS, AND OTHER ROOT CROPS. THEY HUNT FISH. THEY LIKE TO CARVE AND PAINT WOODEN FORMS AND MASKS. THEY ARE FAMOUS FOR STORYTELLING. THEY MAKE WOODEN CANOES.
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AN ANCIENT HEADHUNTING CULTURE - SOLOMAN ISLANDS
THESE ISLANDS FORM A STATE IN OCEANIA EAST OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA. THESE 1000 ISLANDS COVER 28,000 KM. THEY WERE INVITED BY MELANESIA PEOPLE FOR MANY 1000'S OF YEARS. THE FIRST EUROPEANS TO ARRIVE THERE WAS FROM SPAIN IN 1568. ENGLAND ESTABLISHED A PROTECTORATE OVER THE SOLOMON ISLANDS IN 1893. IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR THEY FOUGHT THE U.S. AND JAPANESE. BY 1976 THEY ACHIEVED INDEPENDENCE. THE ISLANDS ARE A MONARCHY AND THEY HAVE A PRIME MINISTER .
IT IS THOUGHT THAT PAPUAN SPEAKERS SETTLED HERE ABOUT 30,000 B.C. BY 4000 B.C. AUSTRONESIA SPEAKERS ARRIVED BRINGING CULTURAL ELEMENTS AS THE OUTRIGGER CANOE. BY 1200 AND 800 B.C. THE ANCESTORS OF THE POLYNESIANS ARRIVED WITH KNOWLWEDGE OF CERAMICS.
IN 1568 THE FIRST EUROPEANS CAME. THE ISLANDERS WERE NOTED FOR HEADHUNTING. THE MISSIONARIES BEGAN VISITING THE UPLAND IN 1850'S BEGAN VISITING THE UPLAND IN 1850'S. THEY MADE LITTLE PROGRESS AT FIRST BEFORE LABORERS FOR THE SUGAR PLANTATION THAT LED TO A SERIES OF REPRISALS AND MASSACRES. BY 1893 ENGLAND DECLARED A PROTECTORATE OVER SOUTHERN SOLOMONS. BY 1900 MORE OF THE ISLANDS WERE ADDED TO THE TO THE PROTECTORATE OF BRITAIN. SOME ISLANDS REMAINED GERMANY ADMINISTRATION. THE SOLOMON ISLANDS REMAINED UNDER REMAINED UNDER UNDER GERMANY ADMINISTRATION. WITH MONO AND AALU SOCIETIES TRADED WITH MONO AND ALU AND OTHER SOCIETIES. MISSIONARIES CONNECTED MOST OF THE POPULATION.CHRISTIANITY. IN THE EARLY 1900S THE AUSTRALIAN FIRMS BEGAN LARGE SCALE COCONUT PLANTING.
DURING WORLD WAR II MOST OF THE PLANTERS AND TRADERS AND TRADERS MOVED TO AUSTRALIA WHILE INTENSE FIGHTING OCCURED IN THESE ISLANDS.
BY 1970 THE ELECTIONS WERE HELD AND A HELD AND A NEW CONSTITUTION WAS CREATED IN 1970. BY 1973 THE FIRST OIL PRICE SHOCK OCCURRED AND THE COST OF RUNNING A COLONY BECAME APPARENT. BY 1975 THEY GAINED SELF GOVERNMENT. DURING LATE 1990'S THEY HAD AN INTENSE CIVIL WAR.
BY 2007 THEY WERE STRUCK BY A MAJOR EARTHQUAKE THAT FOLLOWED A TSUNAMI. IT DESTROYED 700 HOMES AND LEFT MANY PEOPLE HOMELESS. THEIR CLIMATE IS VERY HUMID THROUGHOUT THE YEAR WITH 80 DEGREES. THEY HAVE MANY RAIN FORESTS. THEIR SOIL IS MOSTLY VOLCANIC. WITH INFERTILE LIMESTONE. THEY MUST IMPORT OIL AND SOME OTHER PRODUCTS. THEY EXPORTED SOME TIMBER AND THE ISLANDS HAVE UNDEVELOPED RESOURCES - LEAD, NICKLE, AND GOOD PLANTATION CLOSED.
DIVING FOR TOURISM IS A MAJOR ACTIVITY. THEY HAVE 74 LANGUAGES AND 4 HAVE BECOME EXTINCT. ABOUT 92% ARE CHRISTIAN WITH SOME ANGELICAN. AND THEIR AGE OLD CUSTOMS ARE HANDLED DOWN FROM OTHERS WITH ABORIGINAL SPIRITS THEMSELVES. NOT ALL FOLKS HAVE TV'S. THEY PLAY RUGBY AND SOCCER . SCHOOL EDUCATION OF CHILDREN IS NOT COMPULSORY.
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IT IS THOUGHT THAT PAPUAN SPEAKERS SETTLED HERE ABOUT 30,000 B.C. BY 4000 B.C. AUSTRONESIA SPEAKERS ARRIVED BRINGING CULTURAL ELEMENTS AS THE OUTRIGGER CANOE. BY 1200 AND 800 B.C. THE ANCESTORS OF THE POLYNESIANS ARRIVED WITH KNOWLWEDGE OF CERAMICS.
IN 1568 THE FIRST EUROPEANS CAME. THE ISLANDERS WERE NOTED FOR HEADHUNTING. THE MISSIONARIES BEGAN VISITING THE UPLAND IN 1850'S BEGAN VISITING THE UPLAND IN 1850'S. THEY MADE LITTLE PROGRESS AT FIRST BEFORE LABORERS FOR THE SUGAR PLANTATION THAT LED TO A SERIES OF REPRISALS AND MASSACRES. BY 1893 ENGLAND DECLARED A PROTECTORATE OVER SOUTHERN SOLOMONS. BY 1900 MORE OF THE ISLANDS WERE ADDED TO THE TO THE PROTECTORATE OF BRITAIN. SOME ISLANDS REMAINED GERMANY ADMINISTRATION. THE SOLOMON ISLANDS REMAINED UNDER REMAINED UNDER UNDER GERMANY ADMINISTRATION. WITH MONO AND AALU SOCIETIES TRADED WITH MONO AND ALU AND OTHER SOCIETIES. MISSIONARIES CONNECTED MOST OF THE POPULATION.CHRISTIANITY. IN THE EARLY 1900S THE AUSTRALIAN FIRMS BEGAN LARGE SCALE COCONUT PLANTING.
DURING WORLD WAR II MOST OF THE PLANTERS AND TRADERS AND TRADERS MOVED TO AUSTRALIA WHILE INTENSE FIGHTING OCCURED IN THESE ISLANDS.
BY 1970 THE ELECTIONS WERE HELD AND A HELD AND A NEW CONSTITUTION WAS CREATED IN 1970. BY 1973 THE FIRST OIL PRICE SHOCK OCCURRED AND THE COST OF RUNNING A COLONY BECAME APPARENT. BY 1975 THEY GAINED SELF GOVERNMENT. DURING LATE 1990'S THEY HAD AN INTENSE CIVIL WAR.
BY 2007 THEY WERE STRUCK BY A MAJOR EARTHQUAKE THAT FOLLOWED A TSUNAMI. IT DESTROYED 700 HOMES AND LEFT MANY PEOPLE HOMELESS. THEIR CLIMATE IS VERY HUMID THROUGHOUT THE YEAR WITH 80 DEGREES. THEY HAVE MANY RAIN FORESTS. THEIR SOIL IS MOSTLY VOLCANIC. WITH INFERTILE LIMESTONE. THEY MUST IMPORT OIL AND SOME OTHER PRODUCTS. THEY EXPORTED SOME TIMBER AND THE ISLANDS HAVE UNDEVELOPED RESOURCES - LEAD, NICKLE, AND GOOD PLANTATION CLOSED.
DIVING FOR TOURISM IS A MAJOR ACTIVITY. THEY HAVE 74 LANGUAGES AND 4 HAVE BECOME EXTINCT. ABOUT 92% ARE CHRISTIAN WITH SOME ANGELICAN. AND THEIR AGE OLD CUSTOMS ARE HANDLED DOWN FROM OTHERS WITH ABORIGINAL SPIRITS THEMSELVES. NOT ALL FOLKS HAVE TV'S. THEY PLAY RUGBY AND SOCCER . SCHOOL EDUCATION OF CHILDREN IS NOT COMPULSORY.
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Monday, November 19, 2012
ART FOR ART'S SAKE
YESTERDAY I WENT TO CHURCH AND THEY HAD A GREAT SINGER AND THE MINISTER WAS TALKING ABOUT HOW WE CAN ALL IMPROVE OUR LIVES. THEN AFTERWARD I MET SOME FRIENDS WHO SAID THEY HAD TO REMOVE THE ART SHOW. I CAME BACK TO FEED MY CAT AND I DECIDED TO HELP WITH REMOVING AND TAKING DOWN THE ART SHOW. IT TOOK SEVERAL HOURS AND IT WAS PRETTY CONFUSING. NO ONE SEEMED TO BE ABLE TO DIRECT THIS WORK, BUT WE FINALLY GOT THE ART PIECES DOWN AND THE HEAVY BOARDS THAT WERE USED TO HANG THE ART WERE CARRIED UPSTAIRS ALONG WITH ALL THE ART. IT TOOK SEVERAL HOURS AND IT SEEMED LIKE IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO ASK MORE PEOPLE TO COLLECT THEIR ART BEFORE THAT DAY SO THE MEMBERS WOULD NOT HAVE SO MUCH WORK CARRYING ALL THESE PIECES UP THE STAIRS. WE GOT TO MEET SOME NEW PEOPLE I HAD NOT SEEN BEFORE AND OTHERS WHO I DID KNOW.
WHERE YOU CAN SEE THE WORLD'S LARGEST SHARK SANCTUARY
THESE ISLANDS ARE IN THE NORTHERN PACIFIC OCEAN. THE COUNTRY IS PART OF THE LARGER GROUP OF MICRONESIA WITH THE POPULATION OF ABOUT 68,000 PEOPLE IN 34 LOW LYING ATOLS AND AND 100 ISLANDS.
EUROPEANS CAME HERE IN 1520'S WITH SPAIN IN 1526. A BRITISH EXPLORER NAMED JOHN MARSHALL NAMED THE ISLAND. IN 1874 THE BECAME PART OF GERMANY. IN 1885 JAPAN OCCUPIED THE ISLANDS. BY 1919 THE ISLANDS WERE TAKEN OVER BY THE U.S. SELF GOVERNMENT. IN 1885 JAPAN OCCUPIED THE ISLANDS. BY 1919 THE ISLANDS WERE TAKEN ISLANDS WERE TAKEN OVER BY THE U S , SELF GOVERNMENT WAS RECOGNIZED IN 1979.
THEY HAVE FEW NATURAL RESOURCES. THE ISLANDS WEALTH THE ISLANDS WEALTH IS BASED ON SERVICE ECONOMY AS WELL AS FISHING AND AGRICULTURE. MUCH OF THEIR ECONOMY COMES FROM THE US. SOME OF THE FOLKS ARE FROM PHILLIPINES. THE MAJORITY OF FOLKS ARE OF MARSHALESE DESCENT. SOME ARE OF MALAAYO-PHILLIPINE/POLYNESIA DESCENT. MOST FOLKS PRACTICE THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST.
THE ISLANDS WERE SETTLED IN 2ND MILLENIUM B.C. PEOPLE CAME HERE FROM CANOES. A GERMAN TRADING COMPANY SETTLED ON THE OTHER ISLANDS IN 1885. FROM 1946 TO 1958 THE U.S. TESTED NUCLEAR WEAPONS. THIS WAS DETERMINED THE MOST CONTAMINATED SITE OF THE NUCLEAR PROVING GROUNDS. THERE ARE STILL HEALTH EFFECTS. THEY HAVE A SHARK SANCTIONARY THAT IS THE WORLDS LARGEST. NO ONE CAN CATCH SHARKS. THERE MOST ARE COCONUTS, TOMATOES, MELONS, AND BREADFRUITS. THEY HAVE HAD A BIG TUNA . THEY HAVE EXPERIMENTED WITH COCONUT OIL TO USE AS A DIESEL FUEL. NO RESULTS YET. THE ISLAND HAS 68,000 PEOPLE IN THE MARSHALL ISLANDS.
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EUROPEANS CAME HERE IN 1520'S WITH SPAIN IN 1526. A BRITISH EXPLORER NAMED JOHN MARSHALL NAMED THE ISLAND. IN 1874 THE BECAME PART OF GERMANY. IN 1885 JAPAN OCCUPIED THE ISLANDS. BY 1919 THE ISLANDS WERE TAKEN OVER BY THE U.S. SELF GOVERNMENT. IN 1885 JAPAN OCCUPIED THE ISLANDS. BY 1919 THE ISLANDS WERE TAKEN ISLANDS WERE TAKEN OVER BY THE U S , SELF GOVERNMENT WAS RECOGNIZED IN 1979.
THEY HAVE FEW NATURAL RESOURCES. THE ISLANDS WEALTH THE ISLANDS WEALTH IS BASED ON SERVICE ECONOMY AS WELL AS FISHING AND AGRICULTURE. MUCH OF THEIR ECONOMY COMES FROM THE US. SOME OF THE FOLKS ARE FROM PHILLIPINES. THE MAJORITY OF FOLKS ARE OF MARSHALESE DESCENT. SOME ARE OF MALAAYO-PHILLIPINE/POLYNESIA DESCENT. MOST FOLKS PRACTICE THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST.
THE ISLANDS WERE SETTLED IN 2ND MILLENIUM B.C. PEOPLE CAME HERE FROM CANOES. A GERMAN TRADING COMPANY SETTLED ON THE OTHER ISLANDS IN 1885. FROM 1946 TO 1958 THE U.S. TESTED NUCLEAR WEAPONS. THIS WAS DETERMINED THE MOST CONTAMINATED SITE OF THE NUCLEAR PROVING GROUNDS. THERE ARE STILL HEALTH EFFECTS. THEY HAVE A SHARK SANCTIONARY THAT IS THE WORLDS LARGEST. NO ONE CAN CATCH SHARKS. THERE MOST ARE COCONUTS, TOMATOES, MELONS, AND BREADFRUITS. THEY HAVE HAD A BIG TUNA . THEY HAVE EXPERIMENTED WITH COCONUT OIL TO USE AS A DIESEL FUEL. NO RESULTS YET. THE ISLAND HAS 68,000 PEOPLE IN THE MARSHALL ISLANDS.
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