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fence. My nights were normally filled with occupying some F.1.G.U. member's time with lots of questions, or reading and thinking. Usually in the afternoon I would spend some time with Billy, if he was up to it. He had a couch on the front porch where he liked to sit and enjoy the beautiful scenery that surrounded him. Just in front of the house he had built a small aviary that contained a few birds that would hop from branch to branch, chirping continuously as if they were very busy doing something. It was kind of hypnotic and tranquil to watch them playfully fly around the cage; often I would sit there with him feeling the serenity of nature and soaking up the warm summer of Switzerland. I was learning a great deal from Billy and the other F.I.G.U. members who lived at the Center. I had been reading my rather poor English version of Billy's Contact Notes that he had made during his meetings with Semjase, and I was trying to figure out the chronology of Earth history. Unfortunately the notes were hard to read, with fragments of history scattered throughout the 1,800 pages. In hopes that Billy had a more cohesive understanding of all of this data, I ask him to fill in some blanks for me, and I finally got a better picture of what had happened here on Earth during the past several hundred thousand years. The History of Man One of man's greatest mysteries is his origin. Where do we come from, and why are we here on Earth? The history of our current civilization has been recorded fairly well, so we have a pretty good idea of what has happened the past 6,000 years or so, at least as far as major events such as wars and religious occurrences. But if you wanted to get into a discussion about any possible life existing here