Originally posted by zeeblebotZeeb, couple of items: (1) I welcome your challenge to the thread title and premise. (2) Received the info from a friend in CA, found the narrative interesting and had no basis on which to doubt or disprove it. (3) The cycles were of more pragmatic/conceptual interest than the '200 year average' per se. It did dawn on me that perhaps even the use of an average, rather than a median or mean, could be questioned. (4) All we know is that major nations rise and fall and that, if properly categorized, some finite number of years probably comes close to estimating the duration of their supremacy. (5) Should you have the time and/or interest to pursue and discover reliable supporting or contradictory data I'd be eager to learn of your findings. I, too, only care about what is accurate and true. Thanks.
yeah, but where's olson's list?
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