[Irish_Thatcherite]

...we've not a clue where it started. {g}

True! Where did Western Civilization start? Ancient Greece? Ancient Israel? Early Christian Ireland? The Franks? Medieval Britain?

[Landru]

>...we've not a clue where it started. {g}
"True! Where did Western Civilization start? Ancient Greece? Ancient Israel? Early Christian Ireland? The Franks? Medieval Britain?"

*Where* civilization started is not the question, my friend.
The question's who started it to which any (moderately informed) Yank would know.

Al Gore.

...but of course. {g}