Somewhere recently I read:
India will implement stuff
China will manufacture stuff
USA will invent stuff
Europe will be a museum for everyone to visit
(something like that, I don’t recall exactly and can’t find it again)
I was thinking about that in the background and had some thoughts about old vs. new but set them aside. Later in the thread the cruise ships came up. I hate the damn things, they are not ships, they are floating skyscraper monstrosities. Yet they do have their utilitarian side. Complex or just complicated?
The theme is how to protect a historic site. The starting point should be determining the root cause and the actual mechanism causing the damage. Too many visitors seems to be too simplistic a cause.
Naming can be curious…
Who Was Amerigo Vespucci?
On May 10, 1497, explorer Amerigo Vespucci embarked on his first voyage. On his third and most successful voyage, he discovered present-day Rio de Janeiro and Rio de la Plata. Believing he had discovered a new continent, he called South America the New World. In 1507, America was named after him. He died of malaria in Seville, Spain, on February 22, 1512.
The Captain
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