Tag: arts
group name: historyrules
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November 10, 2006 09:51 AM EST --
The Islamic world is filled with magnificent cities. Samarkand, Bukhara, Damascus, Cairo, Istanbul and Mecca are all at the top of any top ten list, but Isfahan is in a class of its own. A city where the . . .
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October 02, 2006 05:56 PM EDT --
This Day in History --
1836: Charles Darwin's return to England
Naturalist Charles Darwin returned to England this day in 1836 after a five-year journey on the HMS Beagle, on which he gathered . . .
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November 10, 2006 09:50 AM EST --
Tradition has it that Isfahan's Friday mosque sits on what was once a Zoroastrian Fire Temple. Now, I have been inside mosques that used to be Fire Temples, most notably the Maggak-i-Attari in Bukhara . . .
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November 10, 2006 12:09 PM EST --
As I mentioned in a previous post, there just wasn't much to see in Shiraz, aside from Persepolis, which lays a 120km outside the city. I was no doubt happy to leave, but more so, happy to be heading . . .
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September 23, 2006 12:46 AM EDT --
A few years ago while searching for original sources of men who had made the entire journey across Eurasia I bought Cathay and the Way Thither by Sir Henry Yule. This is a wonderful collection of a few . . .
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September 28, 2006 09:48 AM EDT --
This Day in History --
1958: Madagascar voted for autonomy within the French Community.
1920: In what became known as the Black Sox Scandal, eight members of the Chicago White . . .
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November 11, 2006 07:21 PM EST --
Two primary impulses drove me towards Yazd. First, I wanted to see the architecture of this old Silk Road city, to walk in Marco Polo's footsteps and see what he saw. My second goal was to see, interact . . .
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September 10, 2006 09:19 PM EDT --
One aim of the book I'm currently writing is to weave the mythical yarn of the old myths of Steppe nomads with those of their cousins inhabiting the oases along Inner Asia's trade routes into the . . .
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August 21, 2006 03:37 AM EDT --
When I lived in the area, this was one of the first places I visited. It's beautiful. The area, George Washinton's plantation & home.
Visiting gives you a whole new perspective on . . .
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November 16, 2006 11:33 PM EST --
Slowly we made our way north across the steppe. Small muddy streams cut wide gorges into an endless expanse of grassland. Even though it was fall here splotches of green dotted the prairies where fields . . .
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April 06, 2007 03:58 PM EDT --
It has been awhile since I’ve been able to raise my pen…uh hmm…stroke my computer keys…to the topic of dear Jane Austen. To my Jane Austen Colloquium members I . . .
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October 12, 2006 07:09 PM EDT --
Biography of the Day -- Luciano Pavarotti
Born on this day in Modena, Italy, in 1935, Luciano Pavarotti, an operatic lyric tenor noted for his mastery of the highest notes of a tenor's range, is considered . . .
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October 03, 2006 06:02 PM EDT --
This Day in History --
1990: Germany reunified
After four decades of Cold War division and with pressure from the German chancellor Helmut Kohl, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to a unified Germany . . .
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October 05, 2006 06:32 PM EDT --
Biography of the Day -- Václav Havel
Czech writer and dissident Václav Havel, born this day in 1936, was known for his absurdist depiction of bureaucratic routines and later served as president . . .
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February 21, 2007 08:28 PM EST --
It came down to the wire. There had been massive debts paid with loans that resulted in a final debt. Five years ago, owner Tom Kiefaber took out a $1.2 million mortgage to save the place. He nearly paid . . .
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October 05, 2006 07:15 PM EDT --
Ooh give me clarity give me peace for I've lost a true friend.
I just need peace.
I just need peace.
Houston.
Finally he's deciding to go. Just go.
He finally grew up, wow/ it can happen.
Trivette . . .
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October 10, 2006 08:49 PM EDT --
This Day in History --
1985: American motion-picture actor, director, producer, and writer Orson Welles died.
1973: Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigned from office and pleaded no contest to the charge . . .
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October 13, 2006 11:08 AM EDT --
Abraham Lincoln was elected U.S. president in 1860; John F. Kennedy in 1960. Both men were murdered, assassinated by men with 15 letters in their name. Both men were succeeded by a Southern Democrat named . . .
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November 27, 2007 01:28 AM EST --
First of all, it's like playing tennis in this thing, I serve a text and I hope you will return my myspace text when it is so easy for you just to call/ can I have your number I will call I'm . . .
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July 04, 2007 09:56 AM EDT --
" ... then, paler than the moon in day light, the son of the absent King, sat on the stone next to the fireplace. he watches the branches delivered to the action of the flames. From their embracement . . .
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