"Seaport of the Pharaohs to the Land of Punt: Recent Excavations in Wadi Gawasis"

Some social anthropology: (don't shoot!) There is also the American football term, which is to drop the ball and kick it before it hits the ground, which was once before different, a "drop kick" kicked after it bounced up off the ground (country-western novelty song: "Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life" has me confused). The "punt" has become synonymous for the "fourth down" kicked ball at the other team, when the previous efforts failed to advance the ball the required 10 yards in four downs, though the punt is still optional. The "punt" drop kick is much easier to control and goes usually much further than the bounced "drop kick" it replaced. I was working for a CRM firm just off Wall Street in NYC recently, and they are in the building next to the "Irish Punt" (the restaurant is at 40 Exchange Place) a restaurant, next door, in the building used in a recent film, "Wolves of Wall Street" offered by William Shatner's Sci-Fi/horror monthly DVD selection. I read that the "punt" was the national unit of currency in Ireland, like a "dollar" until now the "eu" is in use, Ireland in the European Union, its unit of currency now used there. Of course, a "punt" is also a small boat which is what I thought the restaurant was named after. It's amazing the intact artifacts they have found in the caves there, with ropes, etc. reported in the press, on the former "Arabian Gulf" on some older maps, the "Red Sea" on most today (though some have suggested the "Persian Gulf" should be rightfully renamed the "Arabian Gulf"). To Punt is where ancient Egyptians voyaged to some locations where they traded for exotic items, many of the real locations, still a mystery today. Perhaps to Axum's coastal trade site (in "American Antiquity" a geoarchaeological analysis) Oman, Yemen and the mysterious Socotra or Soqotra (Arabic Suquá¹­ra), where Alexander the Great its recorded obtained botanicals, in the Indian Ocean between Africa and the Arabian peninsula.