>About the only thing they have in common with ancient Persia is geography.
More or less my thoughts - but just to be accurate, wouldn't the people of today be, to a great extent, descendants of the ancient Persans? - I am not sure about this.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
