It is all about the touching. ;)

Aelia you are just mad because you lost. [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

Too bad.

"The Mughal Empire, (Persian: شاهان مغول) was an empire that at its greatest territorial extent ruled parts of what is today Afghanistan, Baluchistan and most of the Indian Subcontinent between 1526 and 1857. The empire was founded by the Timurid leader Babur in 1526, when he defeated Ibrahim Lodi, the last of the Delhi Sultans at the First Battle of Panipat. "Mughal" is the Persian word for "Mongol". The religion of the Mughals was Islam.

The empire was largely conquered by Sher Shah during the time of Humayun, but under Akbar it grew considerably, and continued to grow until the end of Aurangzeb's rule. Jahangir, the son of Akbar, ruled the empire between (1605-1627). In October 1627, Shah Jahan, son of Jahangir, "succeeded to the throne", where he "inherited a vast and rich empire" in India; and "at mid-century this was perhaps the greatest empire in the world". The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, commissioned between (1630 - 1653), the Taj Mahal, in Agra, India.

After Aurangzeb died in 1707, the empire started a slow and steady decline in actual power, although it maintained all the trappings of power in the Indian subcontinent for another 150 years. In 1739 it was defeated by an army from Persia led by Nadir Shah. In 1756 an army of Ahmad Shah took Delhi again. The British Empire finally dissolved it in 1857, immediately prior to which it existed only at the sufferance of the British East India Company.

To the subject of the Mughals origins, the Mughal people were created through a series of interracial marriages. When the Mongolians of north west asia took the subcontinent and middle east in its vast empire, there was much marrige between the Mongols and central asians in particular the Persians. The Mughals are derived from this unique mesh of different peoples, although they adopted the culture of their ancestral Persians, which is evident in their religious practices, customs, architecture and language; and they still retained many physical attributes from their other ancestral half, which also helped to cement new customs and traditions."
Thanks Wiki!

Wow, anyone else marvel at the fact Canada trounced, flounced, and deboned the Russian women's hockey team 12-0 today?

Interesting, Sir D... but what does it have to do with skiing down bumps on a hill?

Oh I know!! Especially when one of the divers is really short and one is really tall. Although we tend to get medals in that so I shouldn't complain too much ;)

LOL Mack - I knew we had some chick in the final but when I discovered how ridiculous the event was it was still the heats, so [img]tongue.gif[/img] ;)

Um, yes thank you, Sir D. Of course when I posted my disclaimer I couldn't have anticipated how thoroughly useful the information you've provided would be [img]graemlins/uhoh1.gif[/img]

Mens Candian hockey team are not looking good. Italy scored on them. ;)

And how many times did the Canadians score on them ?

I just don't know what's going on with them Canucks... first, the women give up a goal in their third game (outscoring opponents 36-1 over 3), and then Marty Brodeur gets scored on... TWICE!... in the men's first game.

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It's going to be a rough Olympics for the Canadians, for sure...

<font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#009999">7, Italy scored 3 times. The men have to pull up there socks if they want to keep up with the Women's team. As well a 7-3 win over Italy could have been a loss if they were playing Sweeden, US, or even Finland.

Nice to see Beckie get a silver in the relay, after her disappointing 6th place finish in Cross country skiing, in the singles event, she seemed pretty disappointed about that place.</font>

[ 02-15-2006, 10:58 AM: Message edited by: pritchke ]

Bad news for the Czechs... and the Senators. Dominik Hasek injured himself in their opener... might be gone for the olympics depending on what happened.

That increases the chances for pretty much everyone else.