OK, I am going to try to keep this one simple and to the point. As Americans we are used to wishing "Happy..." for a lot of observances. "Happy Birthday", "Happy Anniversary", and for holidays like "Happy Independence Day", etc., etc, I am writing this on Memorial Day. Yesterday I saw a comment somewhere saying: "Don't say Happy Memorial Day!" Now my first thought was "here go the speech police again!" or similar. Today I saw another comment with the same statement: "Don't say Happy Memorial Day!" But it went on and made the issue that this is not to be a "happy" day. This day is for the observance of those men and women that have died in the service of our country. It is to "memorialize" their sacrifice. The comment went on to say that a large portion of our active military and veterans did not like to hear "Happy Memorial Day" for this reason. It finally hit me; Memorial Da...
The Human Race, as we know it today, is thought to have started about two million years ago with the first of the Genus Homo - Homo habilis. A note: although as factual as I can make it, some "facts" here are not universally accepted, nor are they totally proven - I am presenting them to you as the best accepted facts as we know them today based on my research. I am not an anthropologist, nor do I have any formal training in the field. This is not meant to be a scientific paper from that perspective. There may have been a distant ancestor that could have met the criteria to be considered of the Genus Homo, but they are speculative as best as I can determine with my limited knowledge. If you are wondering what qualifies a creature as belonging to our genus, as best as I can determine it is the change to bipedalism, or walking upright on two legs. This helped make changes in body structure - and was caused by them as well - like longer legs, change to spinal structu...