Olympics August ninth, tenth

August ninth and tenth at the Olympics in London,
Looking at men's medal winnings per capita,
Britain and her little white colonies on islands,
would have been defeated by little Latvia;

But Britain's little black colonies in the Carribean,
whose population put together is only four million
Achieved many medals relative to their population

The result ending up being that Great Britain
& her little colonies on the islands,
all of whom still have as official anthem,
God Save the Queen the anthem of Great Britain

Staved off the challenge from Latvia,
a nation of only two million,
located just west of Russia,
south of Finland, and north of Poland

Bronze and gold were won by West Indian sprinters
in the race relay four by four hundred meters;
in two hundred meters they won gold, bronze and silver

Thus West Indians mister Lendore, mister Gordon,
mister Forte, mister Brown, mister Solomon,
mister Mathieu, mister Weir, mister Pinder,
mister Bolt, mister Blake, and mister Miller

Conquered the beach-volleyball bronze duo
composed of Plavins and Smedins the two Latvians,
and the Latvian Stromberg's cycling Gold,
To continue the British Empire's dominance
over the two thousand and twelve Olympians

2500 year old Persian Painting resembles Hastings Tapestry

Browsing the internet, I came across an article, that showed Persian-empire wall paintings from 470 BC, that I immediately noticed bore a striking resemblance to the Bayeux tapestry .

A quote from the article:

"LONDON, (CAIS) -- the Achaemenid tomb chamber, one of the finest examples of the ancient Iranian art of wood painting that survived to the present day, was on show ...This magnificent work of Iranian art offers important insights into the life styles and beliefs of the Persian Anatolia during the Achaemenid Dynasty in 5th century B.C.E. The unique tomb chamber built around 470 B.C.E. for a Persian noble-warrior has remained intact for nearly twenty five centuries (http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2010/december2010/04-12.htm).

Some links to photos of the paintings:
http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Images2/Achaemenid/Painting/Reconstructed_Achaemenid_painting_beam3WM.png

http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Images2/Achaemenid/Painting/Reconstructed_Achaemenid_painting_beam1WM.png
http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Images2/Achaemenid/Painting/Reconstructed_Achaemenid_painting_beamWM.jpg
The dimensions of the timber-lined tomb chamber are reported to be 2.50 m x 2 m in length and width and 1.85 m in height...the beam with the battle frieze is 221 cm long (7' 2") and 32 cm (12") high... [length 7.2 x height]

( http://books.google.com/books?id=FNLsjZuatMsC&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=tatarli+paintings+dimensions&source=bl&ots=uzIQ2HiQj0&sig=O6cecUStW6T-gmccfx8uO2gv1wU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=v5sjUIX3L4Tm0QHhzID4CQ&ved=0CFAQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=tatarli%20paintings%20dimensions&f=false )

The Bayeux tapestry is also long and narrow like a roll of film: "68.38 metres long and 0.5 metres wide (224.3 × 1.6 ft) [length 140 x height] -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayeux_Tapestry

The Persian Achaemenid Empire is the greatest empire of all time, in terms of percent of world's population subjugated (they got 45%; in terms of today's world population, they would be ruling over 3.1 billion people). The British empire is the greatest empire of all time, in terms of land area (like a box 3.6K miles high and 3.6K miles wide).

Empires of All-Time By percent of world population:

1 Achaemenid Empire 44.5% (50.0 million out of 112.4 million in 480 BC)
2 Mauryan 43.30% (68.0 million out of 150 million in the 2nd century BC)
3 quing 36.60% (381.0 million out of 1.041 billion in 1820)...
? British 20.00% (458 million out of 2.295 billion in 1938)

Empires of All-Time By By land area
1 British empire, 13 million sq miles,
...15 achaemenid 3.1 mill square miles,

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_empires

The London Olympics over the past week have been like a battle between the Persians and the British empire.

Poem noting such to be the case

-- David Virgil

August 1-8 Olympics: British Empire Navy vs Persian Army

Reflecting on what I think been's going on
during the last week at the Olympics Games
(Wednesday August first to Wednesday August eigth),
Observing through a lense that focuses on
men's per capita winnings from day to day:

I've witnessed a struggle featuring
Navy of Britain and her island colonies,
Against Iran's fantastically strong army.
The British empire has been winning
and appears set for eventual victory.

These little Euro-British colonies on islands
after centuries still have as their official anthem
God Save the Queen, the national anthem of Britain.

A week ago Wednesday August first,
the power was in the French swimmers

Next, Thursday August second Great Britain,
ruled sports of land & sea transportation.

On Friday August third New Zealand,
population four million persons
a small white colony of Britain's
conquered land and sea transportation

August fourth three little white colonies
(Canada, Australia, & New Zealand)
and their imperial father Great Britain
dominated sports involving movement
at high speeds over the land and the sea.

On August fifth and August sixth,
British named Afro-British West-Indians
from the islands of the Carribean
dominated land-running sprints.

On August seventh, Persian wrestlers & weightlifters
of the wild and glorious highest weight-classes,
dominated the world's weightlifters and wrestlers,
while the Persian Ehsan Hadidi won a silver
in the classically Olympian discus,
hurling the four point four pound discus sixty-eight meters.

On Wednesday August eigth, the British homeland collapsed
but her little white island colonies filled the gap
ruling water movement of various sorts,
the canoeing, kayaking and sailing sports.

Four of the last eight days I saw
the domination of the men of Britain
and her little colonies, mostly islands,
in water transportation sports.

It's been like ancient military history
a contest between British Empire's fast Navy,
And Persia's magnificently mighty army.