....Customer complaints is not a recent phenomenon: on a tavern wall of Pompeii we read the following scribble by a bar customer who is unhappy with his wine:

...The Great Pyramid of Guiza, is the largest all-stone structure the world has ever known! It has a base area of 13 acres and a height of 481 feet. The base, of sides of about 756 feet, makes an almost-perfect square, with a variation between the longest and shortest sides of less than eight inches!!

...The Sumerians had the first system for "higher education." School "textbooks" have been excavated, dating as early as 2500 BC. There were Junior and "high" scribes (writers). Also there were scribes who specialized in administrative activities.

...The algebra skills of the Babylonians was such that they calculated the square root of 2 correct to one in two milllions!

...In 458 BC when Rome was under danger of attack from hostile tribe to the east, the Senate names dictator a certain general named Lucius Quinticus Cincinnatus. He leaves his farm, assembles his troops and defeats the assailants in one day, then gives up his dictatorship and returns to his farm. A city in Ohio is named after him!

...Starting from the Red Sea, the Phoenicians attempted to circumnavigate Africa (The historian Herodotus called it Libya). The explorers succeded, returning home after three years via the Straits of Gibraltar.

...The earliest writing system was discovered in Sumer, which appeared in Mesopotamia a century or two before 3000 BC.

...a Sumerian proverb goes something like:

... And yet more to come! Stay tuned.