the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx are actually a lot older than current archaelogy gives them credit for
Yes, I agree that he's convincing on that. Just the radically different building styles would make you think so, not to mention the traditional and documentary evidence. I wonder what Blam's opinion is.
I hadn't known that Charleston is such a beautiful and historical city. I have a new respect for South Carolina. I might actually take my wife there for a weekend, I'm pretty sure she'll want to go on the ghosts of Charleston tour.
I love reading history, but I'm not much of one for going and seeing it myself. I'd actually been to San Antonio a dozen times or more (Rose is from there) before I ever saw the Alamo, for instance. And then when I actually saw it, it was because we were staying in a hotel nearby, and walked past it on our way to a restaurant... I turned around, looked, and asked Rose, "Is that...?" Turned out it was!