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BEING COY
The scenery is real, I just addeded the koi which are down the stream from this little cascading fall at Hyatt. :)
The back of a spotlight on the steamboat Delta Queen shows the pilot house, captain's bridge, top deck and cars parked on the Cincinnati Public Landing in 1976. The Delta Queen called Cincinnati its home port then. Today, it is a floating hotel in Chatanooga, Tennessee. The sternwheeler is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Her hull was cast in on the River Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland.
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders visited campus on February 29, 2020 to speak to voters in the final days ahead of the March 3 primary.
Zoroastrians Dakhma in Yazd_Yazd Province_Iran
Other term for "Dakhma" is "Tower of Silence".
A Tower of Silence is a circular, raised structure built by Zoroastrians for excarnation – that is, for dead bodies to be exposed to carrion birds.
Zoroastrian exposure of the dead is first attested in the mid-5th century BCE Histories of Herodotus, but the use of towers is first documented in the early 9th century. The doctrinal rationale for exposure is to avoid contact with earth or fire, both of which are considered sacred.
One of the earliest literary descriptions of such a building appears in the late 9th-century Epistles of Manushchihr, where the technical term is astodan, "ossuary". Another technical term that appears in the 9th/10th-century texts of Zoroastrian tradition (the so-called Pahlavi books) is dakhmag, for any place for the dead. This Zoroastrian Middle Persian term is a borrowing from Avestan dakhma, of uncertain meaning but related to interment and commonly translated as "grave". In the Avesta, the term is pejorative and does not signify a construction of any kind. In the Iranian provinces of Yazd and Kerman, dakhma continues as deme or dema. Yet another term that appears in the 9th/10th-century texts is dagdah, "prescribed place". The word also appears in later Zoroastrian texts of both India and Iran, but in 20th-century India came to signify the lowest grade of temple fire. In India the term doongerwadi came into use after a tower of silence was constructed on a hill of that name.
苏州是个很会经营自己特色的城市，走在大街小巷无处不在彰显着它的江南园林风格，甚至公交车站也是修成很古典的样子，公交车上用我听不懂的苏州话报站。园子什么的对于没啥文化的人来说实在没啥意思，反倒是小街小巷让我很喜欢，希望可以一直这么保存着，不能再商业化了。