Monthly Archives: January 2015

The granularity of cities

Originally posted on Architecture Here and There:
These superimposed maps of Cleveland now and then are easily used. (University of Oklahoma) The University of Oklahoma’s Institute for Quality Communities has developed a website that offers superimposed maps of major American…

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Sanjhi: Almost forgotten Festival of North India

Originally posted on Free Thoughts by Ranjit Singh:
When we were boys, every year ten days before the festival Dussehra, our mother would choose a small portion of mud wall and make a crude image of a woman, stars and…

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Will “protected cultural zones” save heritage sites in Syria?

Originally posted on Gates of Nineveh: An Experiment in Blogging Assyriology:
Earlier this month UNESCO held a major conference in Paris on cultural heritage destruction in Iraq and Syria. Headlining remarks by UNESCO director Irina Bokova emphasized that there is…

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नए वर्ष के आगमन पर..(कँवल भारती)

Originally posted on Hillele:
नया वर्ष तू क्या लेकर आया है? आशाएं विश्वास हमें तो करना ही है क्यों न करेंगे? करते ही आये हैं. वांच रहे हैं लोग राशियाँ राशिफल में कुछ के चेहरे मुरझाये हैं, कुछ के फिर…

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