RW> Do an 'ancient canaan weather' search and you'll find some interesting
RW> history of the area from 3000 years ago. It wasn't called the 'land of
RW> milk and honey' for nothing. Go to the east a hundred miles and you've
RW> got
RW> very dry high desert, south, well there's a bunch of Egyptians there and
RW> high mountains to the north that don't get much rain or snow. Of course
RW> to the west is the ocean.
 
By "land of milk and honey" you are perhaps referring to the
Fertile Crescent where wars are still going on and have been way before our
time?  I don't think they'll ever stop.
 
Which one of the 7 seas isn't really a sea?  
 
Regards,
 
Roger

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