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September/October 2002

Vol.5, No. 8

Contents

Worldwide Weather Chaos: What Does It Mean?
by John Ross Schroeder

Restoration: Shadows of the World to Come
by Darris McNeely

Palestine/Israel--Whose Land Is It, Really? Part 2
by Cecil E. Maranville

The Citadel and the Caravan
by Melvin Rhodes

The Millennium, an Eternal Idea
by Darris McNeely

This Is the Way...Who Is My Neighbor
by Robin Webber
The Citadel and the Caravan

In explaining Europe to Americans, and America to Europeans, I have sometimes used the analogy of a citadel and a caravan. Europe is the citadel--America, the caravan.

by Melvin Rhodes

Prague, Budapest and Vienna are three of the most magnificent cities that any traveler can visit. Situated right in the heart of mitteleuropa (central Europe), these imperial cities of the Hapsburgs have often shared a common history. Although the capitals of three distinct peoples, each with their own language and customs, their histories have been intertwined for over two millennia.

What immediately strikes any American visitor is how old the buildings are. Most of the architecture predates America's birth as a nation. Yet these buildings are all still in daily use: Churches that go back the best part of 1,000 years, palaces of the nobility built during the golden age of the Hapsburgs in the 18th and 19th centuries, cobbled streets that were already there more than a thousand years ago, even an elaborately made church clock in Prague's market place that's about 700 years old (and still works, in contrast to the watch I bought in Hong Kong a few years ago).

These cities are living and breathing history.

It is difficult for those who have not had the opportunity to travel to other continents to sometimes appreciate and understand the differences in outlook that geography and environment can lead to. In explaining Europe to Americans, and America to Europeans, I have sometimes used the analogy of a citadel and a caravan. Europe is the citadel--America, the caravan.

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