Tag: arts
group name: historylovers
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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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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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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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May 18, 2007 07:02 PM EDT --
Greetings! I am the author of a free online e-book, Ancient Greece Odyssey: A Traveller's Journal.
This article serves as an introduction and table of contents for that website.
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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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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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June 10, 2007 08:04 PM EDT --
I have been living in Austin, Texas for over nine months now, and as an intense bibliophile and art aficionado, I always knew that the Harry Ransom Center was somewhere I must visit. You know . . .
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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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October 20, 2007 06:31 PM EDT --
I actually hadn't heard of this one until it was pretty much over. New York Senators Charles Schumer and Hillary Clinton, both Democrats, had inserted a $1 million earmark into a health and . . .
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January 04, 2008 02:41 PM EST --
Sometimes I think I am the luckiest woman on earth. I have so many good and generous friends. My wonderful pal, Barbara Soper, frequently invites me to see exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. . . .
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June 16, 2007 12:15 PM EDT --
When his father lost his job in 1931, Jim Mitchell saw his family slide to rock bottom in . . .
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June 16, 2007 03:39 AM EDT --
Still need lots more input on these questions so I can compile some data - Come one, come all!
Something I'm really interested in is what the make up of this group is, so if you have the . . .
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December 26, 2006 09:12 PM EST --
"It's Howdy Doody Time!"
How many of you remember sitting on your living room floor in front of that tiny, black and white T.V. screen (enclosed in that big maple cabinet) and hearing . . .
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June 02, 2007 12:08 PM EDT --
The Week's article "How the law penalizes writers and inventors," comments on Mark Helprin's Op-Ed in May 20 th 's New York Times: A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn't . . .
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July 03, 2007 07:27 PM EDT --
The spike sits on a shelf opposite my desk, four inches of mottled iron with a square shank and L-shaped head tapering to a wedge. I picked it up on the Devil's Railroad in the heart of the Amazon . . .
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January 17, 2007 04:38 PM EST --
Production notes from Clint Eastwood's new film, Letters from Iwo Jima
Sixty-one years ago, US and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, several hundred letters are unearthed from that stark . . .
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