http://wahmnetwork.blogdrive.com/ wahmnetwork Fri, 29 Apr 2005 22:10:23 PDT http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2005. http://wahmnetwork.blogdrive.com/archive/2.html Sat, 30 Apr 2005 06:08:38 GMT Pachisi is a board game thought to originate in India; it is described as the national game of India. It is played on a board shaped like a symmetrical cross. A player's pieces move around the board based upon a throw of six or seven cowries (the number of shells landing aperture upwards indicating the number of places to move). The name of the game comes from the Hindu word pachis, meaning twenty-five, the largest score that can be thrown with the cowrie shells. Thus the game is also known by the name Twenty-five. Each player's objective is to move all four of their pieces completely... (more) http://wahmnetwork.blogdrive.com/comments?id=2 http://wahmnetwork.blogdrive.com/archive/1.html Sat, 30 Apr 2005 06:07:09 GMT Megara (Greek: Μέγαρα) is an ancient city in Attica, Greece, on the Saronic Gulf opposite the island of Salamis, which belonged to Megara in archaic times, before being taken by Athens. Megara was one of the four districts of Attica, embodied in the four mythic sons of King Pandion, of whom Nisos was the ruler of Megara. In historical times, colonists from Megara (c. 667 BC) founded Byzantium, as well as Chalcedon and, in Sicily, Megara Hyblaea, a small polis north of Syracuse. The most famous citizen of Megara in antiquity was Euclid. The 6th-century poet Theognis also came from Megara. The... (more) http://wahmnetwork.blogdrive.com/comments?id=1