Eskimo life

For my blog post today I found a diddy on Eskimo Culture. The article I found can be viewed right here on the website Fact Monster http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/society/A0858029.html . Eskimo's are like many other hunting and gathering cultures. What makes Eskimo society stand out from others is that they were known for their especially skilled artists and fine craftsmans. Due to the sparseness of the lands they live on Eskimos live in small bands with a leader selected who is recognized for his ability to provide and protect the rest. The idea of personal property is viewed much differently than most cultures, Eskimo's will share most things besides for the most personal, private property. Just like most cultures though the Eskimo men will build the homes and provide food, while the women will stay home to watch the family. Their religion is rich with mythology, and shamanism is practiced. Shamans are like priests, but they commune with the earth, like many other pagan priests shaman's will use drugs to induce visions. Now a day's almost all Eskimo's live in communities. Instead of the spear the gun is used to hunt, and many communities will even have snowmobile's. Hopefully one day the Eskimo god Khuralu will descend from the moon to lead his tribes down from the tundra's to feed like ravenous dog's on the white man, and we will all see a great world ruled by the Eskimo

The warrior children

In the time of the Hegemon's and when diplomacy was decided by the end of a pike there was a city that had such well trained warriors that it was able to spread its influence far and wide, this city was Sparta. Sparta is home to the famed Spartan warrior, known for his ferociousness and discipline in battle. The story of the 300 spartan's, although fiction, has forever solidified the power of the spartan warrior in modern day culture. The reason for the greatness of Sparta's military is the Spartan Agoge system.
Right from birth a spartan boy is taken to the old scarred veterans who judge if the boy is good enough to be a spartan warrior. If any signs of weakness or birth defects are noticed the baby will be taken to a near cliff where he is cast away. When the child reaches the age of seven he is taken from his mother and placed in a communual barracks with other young spartan boys. From this point on the child will go through intense training every day until the age of tweleve. At this point in the boy's training he is cast into the outside world with only a mere rag for clothing. They are forced to live off the land and be exposed to the wild beasts. After one year has passed the boy's are now men. For the next seven years they will participate in live war games against local non spartan's. These games were very dangerous and left dead. Once the spartan was twenty he would then continue to live in the barrack's as a part of the standing army. This went on for ten years, then at this point the warrior would be allowed to marry and take their own home and if choose a public office. I found this article on a site called Suite101 and the article was called Agoge- Spartan Military Training. Link provided http://ancient-military-history.suite101.com/article.cfm/agoge_spartan_military_training

The 1931 Chinese Floods

Today I read an article on wikipedia that discussed the events that occurred during the 1931 floods in China. The series of floods that happened in China in 1931 are considered the most deadly natural disasters to occur in the 20th century. The casualties were estimated as low as 400,000 all the way up to 4 million deaths. Before the time of the floods a long draught occurred in China lasting from 1928 to the end of 1930. The extensive draught was what led to the mass floods across the main part of the asian continent. In a time period like the early twentieth century, especially in a country like China that was still developing