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GreyBucket: June 2004
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Wednesday, June 30, 2004. Damascus, The Muslim city. Damascus was the first great city of the ancient world that the Muslim Arab forces encountered. In 661, Mu'awiyah, the first Umayyad caliph, moved out of Arabia and established his court in the Syrian capital. The city was renowned for almost a century thereafter as the capital of a luxurious and extensive empirethe most far-reaching of any achieved by Islam. The principal. Posted by GreyBucket @ 11:49 AM. Monday, June 28, 2004. Sunday, June 27, 2004.
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Saturday, March 26, 2005. Korean visual-arts style characteristic of the Koguryo kingdom (37 BCAD 668) of the Three Kingdoms period. The Koguryo were a horse-riding northern people, and their art was powered by the forceful spirit of a hunter-warrior tribe. Their fresco paintings on the walls of tombs are characterized by movement and emotion rather than formal beauty and decorative visual effect. Outlines. Posted by EarlyPocket at 9:17 PM. Overheard in New York: The Voice of the City.
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PhysicalJewel: June 2004
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Wednesday, June 30, 2004. Lockhart, John Gibson. Lockhart, the son of a Presbyterian minister descended from the landed gentry, studied at the universities of Glasgow and Oxford and began the practice. Posted by PhysicalJewel @ 2:17 PM. Tuesday, June 29, 2004. Representative of the Catholic cantons at the Council of Trent and at the courts of four popesPaul IV, Pius IV, Gregory XIII, and Gregory XIVLussy devoted much of his life. Posted by PhysicalJewel @ 7:06 AM. Monday, June 28, 2004. Major division ...
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TallPicture: September 2004
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Wednesday, September 29, 2004. Hull was a medieval wool port that passed from the monks of Meaux Abbey to Edward I, king of England, in 1293. Edward renamed the town Kingston upon. Posted by TallPicture @ 2:16 PM. Tuesday, September 28, 2004. Posted by TallPicture @ 9:03 PM. Monday, September 27, 2004. Posted by TallPicture @ 10:55 PM. The Volga flows north-south across the western end of the republic, while the Kama, the Volga's largest tributary, forms a roughly east-west axis through the greater part&...
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Sillanpää, Frans Eemil. Thursday, March 31, 2005. Sillanpää, Frans Eemil. The son of a peasant farmer, Sillanpää began studying natural science but in 1913 returned to the country, married, and began to write. His first short stories were published in journals in 1915. From 1924 to 1927 he worked for a publishing company in Porvoo. A new creative. Posted by EarlyPocket at 9:26 AM. Overheard in New York: The Voice of the City. Kottke.org : home of fine hypertext products. The Ready Engine Blog.
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BadJupiter: February 2005
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Monday, February 28, 2005. At the age of 19 Colegate began working as an assistant to literary agent Anthony Blond; when Blond became a publisher, one of the first books he brought out was Colgate's first novel, The Blackmailer (1958). Her next novel, A Man of Power (1960), portrays a newly rich businessman. Posted by BadJupiter @ 1:13 AM. Friday, February 25, 2005. Posted by BadJupiter @ 8:31 PM. Thursday, February 24, 2005. Posted by BadJupiter @ 9:39 AM. Tuesday, February 22, 2005. Cluster of several ...
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PoliticalStocking: July 2004
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Saturday, July 31, 2004. Lennox, Margaret Douglas, Countess Of. Lady Margaret Douglas was the daughter of Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, and Margaret Tudor (daughter of King Henry VII of England and widow of King James IV of Scotland), and in 1544 she married Matthew Stewart (151671), 4th Earl of Lennox. Because of her. Posted by PoliticalStocking at 6:32 PM. Posted by PoliticalStocking at 3:58 PM. Friday, July 30, 2004. Posted by PoliticalStocking at 3:07 AM. Thursday, July 29, 2004. The sac fun...
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AcidEar: November 2004
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Tuesday, November 30, 2004. Town, southern Jordan. It is a regional trade centre for the sparsely settled southern part of the country, which is inhabited mainly by the Huwaytat and other Bedouin tribes. Ma'an is the chief road and rail junction of southern Jordan. The town lies on the Hejaz-Jordan Railway, which runs north-south and connects to Damascus (Syria) in the north. The part of the rail line south. Posted by AcidEar @ 5:01 AM. Monday, November 29, 2004. Posted by AcidEar @ 9:46 PM. Plural Bylin...
