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...place on our evolutionary path we're talking about. If you go back six million years ago, what makes us human is that we were walking up right. That's all. If you go to 2.6 million years ago, it's the fact that we're designing and making stone tools. And at 2 million years ago what makes human is our large brains that are at least two and half times the size of a chimp's. At twenty thousand years ago, what makes us human is the ability to make beautiful cave art. It's all relational...
...base it off Ashoka the Great, the Indian emperor, who reigned over India’s military empire in the third century B.C. He led many bloody military conquests, but afterward, he felt a deep regret for his actions, so he put up edicts, in stone, across the empire. They read, “the wars and bloodshed were wrong and unjust...
...seemed to think it was a good idea: I couldn't persuade any of them to share my rental house in the city's walled Old Town. If they had heard of Cartagena at all, it was only as the backdrop of the classic 1980s romantic caper Romancing the Stone, a place of corrupt juntas and bodice-ripper-reading drug dealers - a parody turned deadly serious by four decades of civil war, Pablo Escobar and cocaine cartels. But what my friends - who spent their vacations standing in line at Space Mountain or screaming down the Atlantis waterslide - failed to realize...
...wonder that travelers are fast discovering this city. During the day, the temperature hovers at an eternal 88°F, and the heat rises languidly off the cobblestone streets. Like the locals, you can retreat into the cool, moist refuges of the ancient stone homes, most with walls so thick that air-conditioning becomes redundant. One of my favorite places to chill: Getsemani, the tiny European-style section of the Old Town - once the poor neighborhood just across the moat but now the cool Greenwich Village-style area of the city. Getting around the Old Town is a cinch; cabs...
...grand name, is a tiny museum that features some of the many torture devices used to elicit confessions of witchcraft. A 15-minute cab ride away, there's the historic fort Castillo de San Felipe, built in 1657 and site of the crocodile-filled penultimate scene in Romancing the Stone...