The Jacaranda has been growing a lot!...neighbor's on the right too...these two Jacarandas are the only two real Shade Trees on the block...not sure why that is...not that many Shade Trees in the whole tract really...lots of Palms, a couple Pines, Clark's house still has their Persimmon Tree looking just like it always did (Clark's look to have sold and gone)...I still have an original Persimmon too...tract was built on an Orchard that had Orange, Plum, and Persimmon Trees, and the builders kept as many as they could...we once had three Plum, five Orange, and the Persimmon, I think...I think one of the Oranges is left, but bedraggled...and there are some new Oranges and Plum, but bedraggled too!...I've got a tenant provided farm of Dragons...anyway, did the laundry, mowed the lawn, washed the car, breakfast at Denny's, napped, and stayed the heck away from my tenants cleaning up least I slow their momentum in a moment of pique!...and their momentum is plenty slow already!...hmmph...clear warm...tomorrowmorrow I'll roll out somewhere...
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The Indus cities are noted for their urban planning, baked brick houses, elaborate drainage systems, water supply systems, and clusters of large non-residential buildings
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Although some houses were larger than others, Indus Civilization cities were remarkable for their apparent, if relative, egalitarianism. All the houses had access to water and drainage facilities. This gives the impression of a society with relatively low wealth concentration, though clear social levelling is seen in personal adornments.
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Archaeological records provide no immediate answers for a center of power or for depictions of people in power in Harappan society. But, there are indications of complex decisions being taken and implemented. For instance, the extraordinary uniformity of Harappan artifacts as evident in pottery, seals, weights and bricks. These are the major theories:
- There was a single state, given the similarity in artifacts, the evidence for planned settlements, the standardised ratio of brick size, and the establishment of settlements near sources of raw material.
- There was no single ruler but several: Mohenjo-daro had a separate ruler, Harappa another, and so forth.
- Harappan society had no rulers, and everybody enjoyed equal status.
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I was doing search to try and find something I remembered reading about ancient India...they had a building code that required each home to be surrounded by a garden for growing, or something like that...in this search I find another layout, connected units with a courtyard and walls facing the outside...think the Romans did that too...the standardizations of a civilization, a culture, what the road builders decide on for road sizes, and the sizes for home land plots, all that, is really really important!...one can hope that the world wide standardizations, like for air travel, can bring some order, some maat, to things...Newport Balboans would give much I suspect to have a Shade Tree to wash their lamborghinis under!...oh, routine of late has been to check on the Wedge post ups on youtube, it's like another facebook with comments and such, thought I haven't gotten but one!...anyway, one surfer posting youtuber has it probably right...to have an epic blog one has to do epic things!...but, no, I'm not going to turn daredevil and jump off or out of things...I'll leave that to 42!
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