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I believe the Democrats said the EXACT same thing in 2004 when Bush won Ohio. For example: http://www.jqjacobs.net/politics/ohio.html

Look, another Slashdotter that can't figure out how to use Google.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/06/politics/campaign/06ohio.html?_r=1

http://makethemaccountable.com/articles/Ohio_s_Odd_Numbers.htm

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2005/08/0080696

http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2004/995

http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/2004votefraud.html?q=2004votefraud.html

http://www.jqjacobs.net/politics/ohio.html

People who spray paint anything on the Grand Canyon should be shot on sight.

So that's what happened to the Anasazi. Now, somebody just needs to go clean up the mess they left.

A Republican in Cuyahoga County??

Please... you have a better chance of finding a do-do bird in Cuyahoga County.

You aren't the only one to have that reaction. The fact that such a large proportion of them apparently voted for Bush started some people wondering if the votes had been counted correctly.

Thus the 3rd party call for a recount, which the poll workers botched.

It's the very fact that the county is so heavily Democratic that got people wondering in the first place.

--MarkusQ

So many cultures discovered / realised / deduced things that western eurpoeans had to discover / realise / deduce again later .

The early Indian astronomers are largly forgotten but around 500AD a guy called Àryabhata taught that the earth is a sphere and rotates on its axis, and that eclipses resulted from the shadows of the moon and earth.

If you are interested the Archaeogeodesic achievements of the Ancients then that whole site is a good reference : http://www.jqjacobs.net/astro/aegeo.html

The Islamic scholar Abu Arrayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni probably read Àryabhata's works 500 years later, he certainly wrote of Indian astronomy in his work "India". This is the same al-Biruni who calculated the radius of the earth to be 6339.6 km using the angular incidence of shadows.

The Indians did more than invent 0, they contributed much of the numerals which we often mistakenly label Arabic in origin, al-Biruni writes : "What we [the Arabs] use for numerals is a selection of the best and most regular figures in India."

Ancient true black African contributions are a little less well documented, the writings struggling to survive the 5000 years necessary, even if someone bothered to patent "I have discovered how to make a rotating disk from three pieces of wood such that they can aid in transporting goods", but it's legacy lives on in your mouse : the wheel. As well as the agricultural revolution, copper, tin, bronze (the ore for which was transported from Asia & Syria), the potters wheel ("the first really mechanical device").

I, for one, thank our black African ancestors, our Islamic discoverers (one of whom even made a pin-hole camera using a whole room, it might have been al-Biruni but I can't find a cite !) and our Indian scholars.

Even today we can't even get the history of science right. The NYT recently published a story with the summary : Robert P. Crease, a member of the philosophy department at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the historian at Brookhaven National Laboratory, recently asked physicists to nominate the most beautiful experiment of all time.

I here's a non-NYT link to the list :
http://physics.nad.ru/Physics/English/top10.htm

See what's number 2. Pfft, he didn't even do that demonstration, let alone discover the phenomena.

The Belgian-Dutch mathematician, Simon Stevinus, did the demonstration in 1586.

Ironically, the article does have a great lesson : "he [Galileo] had demonstrated the importance of taking nature, not human authority, as the final arbiter in matters of science."

Actually, the Arabs didn't invent the zero. That was the Indians. (The ones with the dot, not the feathers.) Other than that, you're right on.

Indians "with feathers", ie Native American Indians, did have the concept of zero.

• The Classic Maya Calendar and Day Numbering System
• Mechanical Aids to Computation and the Development of Algorithms
• Mesoamerican Archaeoastronomy

Actually, and somewhat ironically, if humanity first evolved in Africa, surely Africa is the first ever colonial power?

I don't subscribe to the "Out of Africa" theory myself,. actually I tend to lean towards the Multiregional theory of Evolution. Here's a good intro to the competition between the two theories, Origins of Modern Humans: Multiregional or Out of Africa?