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Notes: Game on...on the radio...Mariners and Angels...bottom of seventh...Angels 6-2...Trout up...old laptop with windows 7 is insisting on doing a c-drive check before it will boot windows...takes about an hour...each time I turn the computer on...tempted to just leave it on!...2-2 the count...turned it on at game time, and took a nap...fly out to center...woke up to find Angels ahead...Ohtani up...3-1 the count...Ohtani bobble head night on the 15th...try to go to game...Angels drawing big crowds...W...Upton up...fly out...Simmons up...Shoei steals second...a walk and a steal is a double in truth...stats should note such!...W...Pujols up...trying to find an enigma on my enigma list that I can do in a couple of innings...the Philippine Greek cuirasses...a curio is how they even got there...and survived the climate...Pujols waps a three run home run!...Angels 9-2....I found their mention in a youtube clip, and that is the only place I can find it...they could be replica frauds, like Father Crespe's artifacts!...but, there's a kind of sense to their being where they are...as a tradable good they would have been valued, and, ancient trade routes did reach the Philippines...I mean, Islam reached the Philippines...Alexander the Great reached the borders of India, and following on were Greek colonies, and Greek rule, and Greek cultural influences...how far east did Greek culture go?...here and there I find curios that suggest very far east...the Chinese terracotta army is said to have Greek influence...and what of 'Greek' cultures before the Greeks?...like the Myceneans, the Minoans, even the Egyptians and Sumerians?...it's well known the Greeks influenced Rome, and I mentioned India...lemesse if I can find an India bit...Angels made out...to top of eighth...Mariners make out...to bottom of eighth...oh, there's this refrain...'built at the same time as the Giza Pyramids'...this readsaid about Caral in Peru...and I just readsaid this about that odd pyramid island of Greece with the white marble sheeting...Smith up...heardsaid Lucroy, or maybe it is Lastella, is out for the season with shoulder injury...Smith a catcher like Lucroy...fly out...Renigfo made out...Fletcher up...
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The legacy of the Indo-Greeks starts with the formal end of the Indo-Greek Kingdom from the 1st century CE...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_of_the_Indo-Greeks
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line drive out...to top of ninth...
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Published on Apr 30, 2019
Locals in Mindanao discovered armor in 2018 of a type they had never seen before. What could these artifacts of a distant age tell us about our history, and the peoples our ancestors encountered?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqJ_rPHfSyU
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clip narrator is really good with the motifs on the armor...I was wondering how they would explain the gecko on the helmet, and as it turns out, that motif shows up in ancient Greek iconography, lizards thought to strike fear...tomorrowmorrow I'll snag pics!...
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from clip linked above
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123...Angels win...Angels 9-2...put a halo over this one!...
:)
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