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From the illustrativeDNA discussion group, 2.179 Cypriot Greek 2.605 Dodecanese Greek 2.716 Anatolian Greek (Konya) 2.890 Anatolian Greek (Kayseri) 3.291 Anatolian Greek (Niğde) 3.475 Cypriot Turk 3.785 Romaniote Jew 3.958 Cretan Greek 4.181 Sephardic Jew 4.223 Cretan Turk Hybrids...

Right now the Phrygian/Brygian branch is supposedly through Yamnaya>Southwest Balkans>Anatolia. What if it actually went the other way, Yamnaya>South Caucasus>Anatolia>Southwest Balkans with the main body settling in central Anatolia and a smaller one migrating to between the Macedonians and the...

I think that gentrification, air B&B's and investment companies that are buying the houses to rent them out are the main drivers in the US. Where I live there is a limit to how far people can commute to downtown Tampa. There is no commuter trains although there is an elementary bus network. So...

From what my Greek/Swedish immigrant friends tell me, not all is what it seems in Sweden. Now I don't have the statistics to back their empirical observations but there is increased crimes committed by autochthonous Swedes and immigrants from Eastern Europeans associated with the drug trade...

I think Christianity made a mess of the whole trinity dogma. So many different points of contention around the trinity. People need something simple like one god like the Jewish or Muslim God. I mean 100 years after the start of Christianity the Orthodox and the Catholics were arguing about...

Out Of Africa Basal.

Now I am not going to take sides in the conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis. What attracted my interest is a marvelous Palestinian Dabke dance group performing in Dearborn, Michigan: Enjoy!

I am surprised at the closeness between Italians and Croatians samples. What is the explanation? Western Balkanites migrating to Italy during the Slav migrations or maybe pre-slavic inhabitants in Croatia were close to Italians and were not autosomally affected by the Slavs, they just adopted...

Would make geographic sense due to the Apennines.

The pension problem is because when Greece joined the EU goods prices increased to a level that the pre-EU pensions were completely inadequate post EU. So the pensions were increased to keep up with the new price levels. Then they were increased for political reasons. Of course tax avoidance...

Acela Express can reach speeds up to 150mph and the second edition will reach speeds up to 220. However the rail infrastructure needs to be updated to reach the latter speed.

I'm surprised that the Washington-NY-Boston Corridor won't get the first true high speed train.

Populism and corruption is not limited to the left side of the political spectrum. Other people's money is easy to spend whether you favor the son of a classmate's company for a multibillion road project or you increase the retirees pension even though the funds that the retirees contributed...

So far crypto has been associated with criminals and tax cheats. Let's rename it digital currency, have it issued by the governments of the world and be done with it. Let's stop wasting 10% of the world's energy minting coins.

Y DNA might have an influence on the appearance on a population basis but on an individual family line basis. For example my sisters tell me they can recognize Albanians from a mile away.

Yep, I look like my mother. Dark brown/black hair, dark brown eyes, tall stature. My father blond, blue grey eyes, short stature.

My grandfather was 5'10" my father short at the most 5'4". I am 6'1" and my son is 6'4"-6'5". We all have the same Y-DNA.

Nope, the Romans expanded beyond defendable borders and most of the Legions were no longer Roman but composed almost exclusively of mercenaries which meant heavy taxes on the populace.

"Apart from military expeditions against Slavs, the re-Hellenization process begun under Nicephorus I involved (often forcible) transfer of peoples.[68] Many Slavs were moved to other parts of the empire, such as Anatolia, and made to serve in the military.[69] In return, many Greeks from Sicily...

The Slavs in Greece at least in the early days lived in special enclaves, named Sclaviniai. They were kicked out of these areas I think around the 9th and 10th and moved to Anatolia. Conversely, Greeks from Southern Italy and Asia Minor were brought to the Peloponnese and Macedonia. The process...