But before more from the Regent Seven Seas Voyager, the continued travails of Donald Trump news.   First, that hush money trial in New York is making Trump look bad , indeed. Second, the state of  Arizona indicted eleven Republicans for trying to overturn their election results in November of 2020,  now the fourth state after Georgia, Michigan and Nevada. Perhaps the most important decision, however, will come after the Supreme Court today hears arguments on whether a former president can be prosecuted for a crime.  I think the Supreme Court will say he is NOT immune, and that they will announce their verdict by early summer, if not earlier, allowing for either the 6January2021 Trump coup attempt trial to occur, or the Georgia case, before October of this year. Light lunch of salami sandwich, salad and garlic vegetable soup, with rosé wine and beer. An assortment of dessert items. We departed Istanbul for Mykonos.   Had dinner at the French restaurant ...

The oldest person in the world today is Kane Tanaka at the age of 118 years.  That's her when 20 in 1923. The USA is more than twice as old, for today we celebrate our 245th birthday.  Mind you, this is not particularly elderly, for the  top six  are: #1  Egypt  8000 years old #2  India  5300 #3  Afghanistan  5000 #4  China 4091 #5  Georgia  3700 #6  Ethiopia  3000  ( their  monarchy  lasted more than 700 hundred years until 1974 when Haile Selassie was overthrown in 1974) the British monarchy is going strong at 1200 years so is the one in  Japan for 2700 years The USA is also not the first democracy.  Five thousand years ago  Mesopotamia  invented written language and had a primitive form of democracy.  Some say that around 3000 years ago  India  actually formed republics which practiced democracy.  Greece had that Athens versus Sparta rivalry 2600 years ago...