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Prayer in the Mosque

Prayer in the Mosque, 1871 Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824–1904) Oil on canvas; 35 x 29 1/2 in. (88.9 x 74.9 cm) In the fall of

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Woman: Fairy Tale

One day, long, long ago…. there lived a woman who did not whine, nag or bitch. But this was a long time ago……. And it

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UN not USA

Stalin designed Georgia current borders. Stalin, himself an Ossetian, combined Abkhaziya and half of Ossetia with Georgia and consciously dividing the people of Ossetia into

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Crying Foul in Tbilisi

On a report aired on NPR yesterday, Ivan Watson asked a Russian officer in charge of the soldiers guarding the entrance to the town of

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One thing was sacred!

Let me start telling you that like the vast majority of Iranians I oppose the mere existence of the IRI, as a regime or establishment

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سورهء تماشا

  به تماشا سوگند و به آغاز كلام و به پرواز كبوتر از ذهن واژه اي در قفس است. حرف هايم ، مثل يك تكه

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Could oil plunge ?

“Four or five years from now OPEC producers are going to be drinking their own oil and choking on it…People who don’t trade the futures

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Spock & Reincarnation

Somebody was once trying to explain reincarnation to me and just went a bit too far into details. Let me tell you, the worst thing

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