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Considering the price I am paying, the effort you made answering my
question exceeded my expectations. Thank you.

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Too Late!

And here's the tip, as well!

I looked that info up myself before hand. I appreciated everyones'
comments though,and I liked the comments from the well travelled.
Personal experience over surveys/resaerch please me. Thank you all!

This was the answer I was expecting.  You brought up very interesting
theories on early Churches reasoning in creating 'fictional'
characters.

You did an impressive research. I like the way you handled such
information about this topic. Thanks a bunch!

Digs aka Ugmek

I am overwhelmed!

And all those great Comments, as a bonus!

I've never come across Ron_Maniac before but I did love his blonde
joke (Sorry Steph), and all the others.

Digs, Please remind me to take you along with me on my next
archeological expedition. As yet, I am not sure where to go because I
guess that most places have already been archeologised.

All the Very Best, to Everyone.

Bryan

sweet.

Hello Digs, looks like you scored a whole in one again; and good to
hear from you again also. Are not you up a little late today, or is it
early??  I should have thought of NG I suppose. It is clearly what I
am after.
 Not out to many restauants of late with workload I have but did just
visit new one just opened up almost directly across the street and
only a minutes walk away being Melbourne's first and only Colombian
restuarant, somewhat of an oddity in supposedly one of the worlds
great restauarnt cities with around 3000 representing every corner of
the globe in the metropolitan confines of a city of 4,000,000  I would
hazard a guess you have not been to a Colombian cafe before?? Coffee
is great and they serve bananas fried as part of main meal. I also
note, as a mere aside, that Colombian women  are easy on the eye.

 John From Melbourne

Extremely well done, with a nice (but unbotrusive) sense of humor to boot.

Ah, well, Nobody's perfect.

Another disappointment.

But, I had to ask.

Maybe there's time yet?

All the Very Best

Bryan

Thank you very much.   I'm always hoping to turn waste into something
good, but I'm beginning to see how important the Cradle to Cradle
design concept is.  If we want to do that, it has to be designed that
way to start with.  Thanks again.

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The speed of responce was great and the answer was both an
enlightening and entertaining read.

Thanks for the quick and informative response!

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It's taking me longer to get to the establishments than I had hoped,
so I'm going to go ahead and rate this answer.  Thanks so much for
your help digsalot!  I've really fallen in love with Greek, Thai, and
Indian food - all of which I had barely even heard of before this
summer.  Moroccan, Persian, and more to come!

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Thanks for answering my question perfectly. The diagram was helpful too.

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Thanks so much.   The last site was extremely helpful and the Dole's
site has some extremely interesting history.   Although the last site
didn't have pictures for all the produce, I was able to use Google
Images to find those pictures.  Thanks again!

Exactly what I was looking for.  Thank you.  I was going to give you
four stars only because you spelled prove wrong in an answer, but it
would have been just playing around.

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Thanks Digsalot

Sorry its been so long, but I dont have much time to peruse.  I do
agree with you in the fact that there is not much information about
the time frame I am interested in.

Maybe I should try on the old kingdom then and away from pre-dynastic.
But ther is so much out there when it gets to this period that it gets
a little mindnumbing sifting through the rubbish.

As for Mikey, I know Mikey very well (online), and have chatted to him
for about 4 years.  My website is in his links and he is a moderator
on my yahoo group history-r-us.  He's a good guy that is nobodys fool,
extremely talented and underated.

Have you got any good links for me for Old Kingdom sites that I could look at?

Thanks

This has answered all my questions.  The researcher even emailed me
asking for more information ao that he/she could better answer my
question.
  My question was a complicated legal one which was very hard for me
to find a clear answer too.  Plus the answers I did find were in legal
terms & were hard for me to understand.
  This researcher not only found the answers...but also explained them
in a way that anyone could understand.
  This was my first experience with Google Answers.  It won't be my
last.  I highly recommend this service.  Thank You So Very Much!!
                                                          K. Milstead

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The answer was concise and complete, with references for further
reading.  I appreciate that.  Sorry for my slow response in rating
your answer.

Thank you so much.  My daughter is doing a paper on Gay Marriages. 
She is pro gay marriage but was having a difficult time getting her
thoughts to the paper.  I think this will help her.

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Fabulous, most excellent.

I sincerly appologize for my "americanizing" of the name of the Maya
Civilization.  That was indeed an entirely unknow fact, and I
appreciate how it will save me from looking dumb in the future.

I had originally intended to ask this as a two-part question, the
second part being, essentailly, "Why didn't the Maya use the wheel for
transportation?".  By giving a comprehensive answer you anticipated
that question and provided a wonderful link (to The Straight Dope). 
My tip includes the $15.50 I intended to pay for that question and the
$20 ($10/question) I allotted as a tip for a great answer.  You
deserve it, if not more.

FYI: The article I reference was, unfortunitely, not about Maya
history and culture.  The author used the sentence to create an
analogy in claiming the superiority of his ideas over another.  The
facts didn't quite click with me and I am glad you were so grateful as
to explain them in such wonderful detail.

Good luck with your semi-retired disease, I know some people with it
and they seem to work just as hard as they did before they caught it -
but only to get paid less.  I would say they have a ball doing so,
pehaps it evens out?  Either way you're part of a queer group of
especially talented and dedicated people and I much appreciate that
you have taken the time to answer my question.

-Dave