Guns, Germs, and Steel

I just finish reading Guns, Germs and Steel. It's very interesting and knowledge books. I'm not going to summarize the book - just read it :)

First Sentence of Tolstoy's great novel Anna Karenina

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in it's own way. "By that sentence, Tolstoy meant that , in order to be happy, a marriage must succeed in many different respects; sexual attraction, agreement about money, child discipline, religion, in-laws, and other vital issues" Jared Diamond

Fertile Crescent

The Fertile Crescent is a region in the Near East, incorporating the Levant and Mesopotamia, and often incorrectly extended to Egypt. Mesopotamia is considered the cradle of civilization and saw the development of the earliest human civilizations and is the birthplace of writing and the wheel.