Mark Meek's Ideas

I was an immigrant to America when I was a child, having lived in Britain and Canada before. Let me tell you about the greatest surprise abo...

Since so much that happens in the world is based on historical religious patterns, even if it is in modern secular form, why don't we re...

Queen Elizabeth was 96 years old and we knew that this day was coming. When I read the news this morning that she was under medical supervis...

Donald Trump made a speech this week in Pennsylvania praising Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. But remember what we saw in the posting on this...

This is what I posted here almost three years ago, in September 2019, when I read that Mikhail Gorbachev was ill. It was titled "Tribut...

FLOODING IN PAKISTAN I don't usually express sympathy here for the simple reason that, if I express sympathy to one group, then, in fair...

Readers in presidential democracies might not completely understand it but the race to succeed Boris Johnson is not a general election. As w...

AMERICA'S STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS Let's thank President Biden for this forgiveness of student loans. This was a very wise move. Oth...

Here is just something to think about. Most people remember the classic example used in school to illustrate the surprising power of success...

Next year India is projected to become the most populous nation on earth. The world needs more roti and more curry and more tea. I nominate ...

One side of the Partition that doesn't get much attention is the many "Princely States" that existed within what is now India ...

On the subject of Beirut, the former home of the Phoenicians who came up with the idea of writing with an alphabet, let's have another l...

On the subject of Beirut today, which was once home to the Phoenicians who came up with the idea of using an alphabet, let's remember th...

Did anyone else notice this? On Wednesday, August 3, I was reading the news on my phone. At about 10 A.M. EST I just lost my internet connec...

Several U.S. presidents were from the area around Cleveland. One of the best-known people from the Gilded Age of Capitalism was Cleveland...

All that many people can think of when they hear of New York is the tall buildings of Manhattan. But New York is not just a city, it is also...

On the subject of Cleveland today, where the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is located, let's have a look at the era of Rock Music. These ar...

This is being reposted because much more is being added on to it. I periodically collect postings about similar subject matter together into...