Nikolai is throwing all sorts of weird ingredients into his witches' brew in
hopes of cooking up the magic elixir that will explain the European Miracle. Its
a waste of effort. There is no such elixir. There was no miracle. Before 1492
Europe had ->nothing<- -- no ingredient or combination of ingredients -- which
would explain its later rise to world hegemony. It all started at Palos.
Jim Blaut