Tehran24 has a bunch of photos from an exhibit of modern art inspired by Ramadan...
explanation HERE.
PersianParadox reports the riot police are already in the streets, just in case.
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Should we name St Gregory the Great: patron saint of bureaucrats?
In 590, Gregory could wait for Constantinople no longer. He organized the resources of the church into an administration for general relief. In doing so he evidenced a talent for and intuitive understanding of the principles of accounting, which was not to be invented for centuries...
Hmm...wonder what he'd do about unemployment...
On the other hand, Obama doesn't have to contend with the Lombard wrecking havoc or the aftermath of the Justinian plague...
longer musings at my rantblog.
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If you let 40 million people starve to death, and no one bothers to report it, does it mean it didn't happen?
First Duranty and Stalin's Ukrainian genocide, and now more publicity and documentation on Mao's genocidal policies of the early 1960's.
Of course, reporter Edgar Snow denied there was a problem, and was believed...but the blind spot continues, as Winchester's recent book shows: He lionized Needham, a man who not only ignored the famine, but defended Mao...Winchester seems more upset that "McCarthyism" stopped him from visiting the US than the fact that many Chinese professor friends of Needham "disappeared" after the "hundred flowers" episode.
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In our prayers: Those in the earthquake in Christchurch New Zealand.
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