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Styling: Raudhah Hanafi
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Published in 1985 by ‘Soviet Writer’ Yerevan: this is a children's music/poetry book which contains poems written about the Armenian Alphabet by Nansen Mikaelyan. Each poem is dedicated to a letter and accompanied with an illustration by Fred Afrikyan. On most pages you will also see musical notes composed by Areg Lusinyan. You can hear the audio book in Armenian here: youtu.be/yX78csQK8mU
A catalogue (published in 1873) from the firm which built this bridge describes their other products which included ready-made steel and iron buildings, including a "timber-framed iron church" and "galvanized corrugated iron portable houses for home or abroad".
The Postcard
A postally unused postcard published by G.J.
They state on the back of the card that it is guaranteed to be a real photograph.
Scarborough
Scarborough is a town on the North Sea coast of North Yorkshire. The town lies between 10–230 feet (3–70 m) above sea level, rising steeply northward and westward from the harbour on to limestone cliffs. The older part of the town lies around the harbour, and is protected by a rocky headland.
With a population of just over 61,000, Scarborough is the largest holiday resort on the Yorkshire coast. The town has fishing and service industries, including a growing digital and creative economy, as well as being a tourist destination. People who live in the town are known as Scarborians.
The Development of Scarborough as a Resort
In 1626, Mrs Thomasin Farrer discovered a stream of acidic water running from one of the cliffs to the south of the town. This gave birth to Scarborough Spa, and Dr. Robert Wittie's book about the spa waters published in 1660 attracted a flood of visitors to the town.
Scarborough Spa became Britain's first seaside resort, though the first rolling bathing machines were not noted on the sands until 1735. It was a popular getaway destination for the wealthy of London.
The coming of the Scarborough-York railway in 1845 increased the tide of visitors. Scarborough railway station claims to have the world's longest platform seat. From the 1880's until the First World War, Scarborough was one of the regular destinations for The Bass Excursions, when fifteen trains would take between 8,000 and 9,000 employees of Bass's Burton brewery on an annual trip to the seaside.
The Grand Hotel
When the Grand Hotel was completed in 1867 it was one of the largest hotels in the world, and one of the first giant purpose-built hotels in Europe.
Four towers represent the seasons, 12 floors represent the months, 52 chimneys represent the weeks, and originally 365 bedrooms represented the days of the year. A blue plaque outside marks where the novelist Anne Brontë died in 1849. She was buried in the graveyard of St. Mary's Church by the castle.
Maritime Events Associated With Scarborough
During the Great War, the town was bombarded by German warships. Scarborough Pier Lighthouse, built in 1806, was damaged in the attack.
In 1929 the steam drifter Ascendent caught a 560-pound (250 kg) tunny (Atlantic bluefin tuna), and a Scarborough showman awarded the crew 50 shillings so he could exhibit it as a tourist attraction.
Big-game tunny fishing off Scarborough effectively started in 1930 when Lawrie Mitchell-Henry landed a tunny caught on rod and line weighing 560 pounds (250 kg).
A gentlemen's club, the British Tunny Club, was founded in 1933, and set up its headquarters in the town at the place which is now a restaurant with the same name.
Sir Edward Peel landed a world-record tunny of 798 pounds (362 kg), capturing the record by 40 pounds (18.1 kg) from one caught off Nova Scotia by American champion Zane Grey. The British record, which still stands, is for a fish weighing 851 pounds (386 kg) caught off Scarborough in 1933 by Lawrie Mitchell-Henry.
On the 5th. June 1993 Scarborough made headlines around the world when a landslip caused part of the Holbeck Hall Hotel, along with its gardens, to fall into the sea.
Although the slip was shored up with rocks and the land has long since grassed over, evidence of the cliff's collapse remains clearly visible from The Esplanade, near Shuttleworth Gardens.
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Written for people struggling with eating disorders. This involved a studio shoot and my Tuesday lunch. I designed the title, printed it, crumpled it up, then scanned it and super-imposed it onto the wrapper in the photograph. bhilldesign.com
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Four of my ice pictures have been publish in the 4x4 portfolio within issue 55 of OnLandscape photography magazine. For those of you don’t know this is the online magazine published by Tim Parkin and Joe Cornish. Whilst selecting the pictures for the magazine I develop a few others and this is another that I quite liked but didn’t quite make the cut.
The ice fragments make a stark contrast on the black volcanic beach at Jökulsárlón, Southern Iceland, comprising fragments of icebergs carved from the nearby Breiðamerkurjökull glacier. The plan was to shoot them using a slow enough shutter speed to blur the water but hopefully catch the ice nice and sharp. More often than not the waves would roll or swamp the ice and shot would be ruined. Here the receding wave started to roll the ice backwards and upwards but the blur in this instance almost works. You never know how the highlights are going to turn out in the waves so this required some considerable vignetting and highlight reduction in Lightroom.
The shots featured in OnLanscape magazine can be seen on my blog here:
www.johnbirchphotography.com/2013/04/onlandscape-magazine...
or if you have a subscription to OnLandscape here:
www.onlandscape.co.uk/2013/04/ice-jewels-of-jokulsarlon/
Other favourite ice shots from Jökulsárlón are posted in my Iceland gallery on my website linked below.
www.johnbirchphotography.com/main-galleries/iceland-gallery/
Jökulsárlón, Southern Iceland
Canon 5D MII | EF 24-105mm f/4 L | 73mm | f/22 | 1.0 secs | ISO 100 | Tripod | polarizer
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LP in concerto a Milano, ai Magazzini Generali il 24 novembre 2016.
Dietro al nome d’arte LP si cela la 35enne cantautrice di origini italiane nata a New York Laura Pergolizzi.
Capelli ricci ribelli, il look e la voce graffiante richiamano alla mente i grandi nomi rock al femminile degli anni settanta/ottanta. Il suo primo album in studio nel 2001; da allora ad oggi, oltre alla realizzazione di altri tre dischi incluso un EP, ha lavorato nel mondo della musica come autrice di grandi star del calibro di RitaOra Rihanna, e Christina Aguilera. Ma è il suo nuovo singolo Lost On You che nell’estate del 2016 le fa raggiunge la fama mondiale ed ora finalmente la potremo ascoltare per il suo unico appuntamento Italiano
In the introduction to this album, first published in 1916, the author,Ernst Reisinger, states his intention of offering a work that is not strictly a travel account but that will strengthen the bonds between Greece and Germany. With ninety photographs by himself, F. Boissonnas and Van Lüpke, and reproductions of engravings by V.M. Coronelli, E. Dodwell, J. Stuart and N. Revett, and L.-E.-S.-J. de Laborde, as well as scholarly texts by L. Ross, E. Curtius and others, which treat the subject of Greece in depth, Reisinger aims to offer a token of love to the Greek people. He collected his material from libraries in Munich and Berlin during the First World War. Many reproductions in the volume come from photographs in the Prussian Photographic Archive in Berlin and present rare views (of around 1910) of mainly continental Greece and the islands.
On browsing through the album, we come upon views from Athens and Attica, Corinth, the Argolid, Arcadia and Messinia, Epirus, Mount Athos, the Ionian Islands, Aegina and the Cyclades. It is moving to see the Isthmus of Corinth, Bassae, Sparta and Mystras, Methana, Tiryns, Eleusis and Epidaurus, Hosios Loukas, Meteora, the Byzantine churches in Arta, Melos, Tempe, Paros, Agrinio and Amphissa, in unbiased shots from the first decade of the twentieth century. It should be noted that the photographs of Corinth were taken before the excavations of the American School, and those in Olympia and Delphi before the restoration of the respective temples at these archaeological sites.
Written by Ioli Vingopoulou
İlk baskısı 1916 yılında yapılan kitap, kendi fotoğraflarından ve Fr. Boissonnas ile Van Lüpke'nin 90 fotoğrafı, V.M. Coronelli, Ed. Dodwell, J. Stuart & N. Revett, L.-E.-S.-J. de Laborde'dan gravür kopyaları, L. Ross, Er. Curtius ve başka yazarların kaleminden çıkmış metinlerle tamamlanıyor. Reisinger malzemesini I. Dünya Savaşı sırasında Münih ve Berlin kütüphanelerinden derlemişti. Burada yer alan fotoğrafların birçoğu Berlin'deki Prusya fotoğraf arşivinden kaynaklanıp özellikle Yunanistan'ın anakara kısmından ve de adalardan tahminen 1910 yılına ait nadir görüntüler sergilemekte.
Albümde Atina, Attika, Korint, Argolis, Mesinia, Epir, Aynaroz, İyon adaları, Egina ve Siklad adalarından manzaralar görmekteyiz. Korint kanalı, Vassai, Sparta, Mistras (Mezistre), Methana, Tirins, Eleusis, Epidaurus, aziz Luka manastırı, Meteora, Arta, Milos, Tempi'deki bizans kiliseleri, Paros adası, Agrinio ve Amfisa'yı gösteren bu resimler 20. yüzyılın ilk yıllarında tarafsız bir anlayışla çekilmiş olması açısından derin izlenimler yaratıyorlar. Korint'te çekilmiş olan planlar Amerikan Arkeoloji Okulunun yaptığı kazılardan önceye ve Olympia ile Delfi'de çekilmiş olan planlar bu arkeolojik sitlerde bulunan antik tapınakların restorasyonundan önceki zamana rastlar.
Yazan: İoli Vingopoulou
The full page 1 from Melbourne newspaper ‘The Herald’ from The full page 1 from Melbourne newspaper ‘The Herald’ from Friday July 18, 1969, which features among other items articles about the Apollo 11 mission reporting, 1969, which features among other items articles about the Apollo 11 mission reporting on the readiness of the Lunar Module (LM), with designated moon walkers Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin entering the LM to conduct pre landing checks. The landing was scheduled two days after this edition was published, with the landing moved forward by over three hours.
Other articles feature the abandonment of the explorer boat Ra by captain and explorer Thor Heyerdahl, the death in an automobile accident of the wife on an Australian National Serviceman serving in Vietnam, the day’s horse racing results at Caulfield Racecourse, and the day’s VFL football results. Among the teams mentioned were Richmond (who would go on to win the premiership that year), and the sold-out marquis match between rivals Collingwood and Carlton, with Carlton (unfortunately!) getting the win.
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A postcard published by Heiss & Co., Graph. Kunstanstalt Coln-Lindenthal.
The card was posted on Wednesday the 23rd. July 1919 to:
Mrs. Couchman,
69, Montfort Road,
Strood,
Kent,
England.
The back of the card bears a rectangular blue censor's stamp numbered 1804. The censor has also signed the card.
The pencilled message on the back of the card was as follows:
"Rhine Army.
Hope you are alright -
haven't heard since
Saturday".
There have been two formations named British Army of the Rhine (BAOR). Both were originally occupation forces in Germany, one after the First World War, and the other after the Second World War.
The first British Army of the Rhine was set up in March 1919 to implement the occupation of the Rhineland. It originally comprised five corps, composed of two divisions each, plus a cavalry division.
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Not a lot, but two days earlier, on Monday the 21st. July 1919, there was an air accident in Chicago.
The Wingfoot Air Express was a dirigible that crashed into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago. The Type FD dirigible, owned by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, was transporting people from Grant Park to the White City amusement park.
One crew member, two passengers, and ten bank employees were killed in what was, up to that point, the worst dirigible disaster in United States history.
The craft caught fire at about 4:55pm while cruising at an altitude of 1,200 ft (370 m) over the Chicago Loop. When it became clear the dirigible was lost, the pilot, Jack Boettner, and chief mechanic, Harry Wacker, used parachutes to jump to safety. (I'm all right, Jack!)
A second mechanic, Henry Weaver, died when his parachute caught fire. Another passenger, Earl H. Davenport, a publicity agent for the White City Amusement Park, jumped from the dirigible, but his parachute got tangled in the rigging and he hung fifty feet below the burning craft; he was killed when the airship crashed.
A fifth person who parachuted from the dirigible, Chicago Daily News photographer Milton Norton, broke both legs and later died in hospital.
At the Illinois Trust & Savings Bank building at the northeast corner of LaSalle Street and Jackson Boulevard, 150 employees were closing up after the day's business in and around the main banking hall, which was illuminated by a large skylight.
The remains of the Wingfoot struck the bank's skylight directly, and flaming debris fell through to the banking hall below. The result was that ten employees were killed, and 27 banking staff were injured.
2010 Mercedes Benz W01 F1.
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I was contacted recently and asked if I would sell a couple of my images so that they could be used in a magazine. I agreed, the magazine arrived in the post today. Both images were used, and one was used as a backdrop for a 2 page spread.
It's in "Paranormal" magazine, issue 27, September 2008.
I'm feeling quite chuffed :-)
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In apertura al concerto di Young The Giant ai Magazzini Generali di Milano, Jack Jaselli con la sua chitarra acustica, cantante, chitarrista e autore nato a Milano e cresciuto girando il mondo. Nei suoi viaggi e spostamenti ha svolto i lavori più disparati, dal volontario in un centro di biologia marina al riparatore di resistenze. Ha lavorato come speaker per una radio nazionale e ottenuto una laurea con lode in filosofia. La sua carriera musicale è un caso unico in Italia e rappresenta una nuova realtà di concreta indipendenza. Senza l’appoggio di alcuna casa discografica, management o agenzia di booking, Jack ha registrato il suo primo disco “It's Gonna Be Rude, Funky, Hard” in una cantina, promuovendolo dal vivo con più di 80 date l’anno ed entrando con ben tre singoli nella classifica “Ear One” dei brani più trasmessi dalle radio.
Anche all’estero, dove Jack spesso si esibisce, da solo o con la sua band, l’entusiasmo è reale, tanto che l’artista Peter Harper ha scelto il suo brano “The House In Bali” come colonna sonora ufficiale del suo sito. Jack ha suonato al fianco di numerosi artisti (Ben Harper, Gavin Degraw, Fink, Lewis Floyd Henry, The Heavy, Giusy Ferreri, Alberto Camerini per citarne alcuni) calcando al contempo i palchi storici della musica indipendente italiana. Da sempre interessato alle contaminazioni con la musica elettronica, Jack ha collaborato con artisti e produttori come Dj Aladyn e Pink Is Punk. Dal vivo Jack è accompagnato dai The Vibes, una band e una famiglia formata da Nik Taccori, Fabrizio Friggione, Max Elli e Paolo Legramandi. “I Need The Sea Beacuse It Teaches Me” è l’EP acustico da cui è tratta “I’ll Call You”, registrato in trio in una grotta sul Mar Ligure da Jack, Max Elli e Nik Taccori e prodotto dallo stesso Max Elli.
The Postcard
A postcard that was published by Nicklis & Mather of Niagra Falls. The card was posted in Niagra Falls using two 1 cent stamps on Monday the 3rd. August 1908. It was sent to:
P. R. Stanbrook Esq.,
42, Montagu Road,
Hendon,
London NW,
England.
There was no message, as the recipient's name and address stretched across the divided back of the card.
Monday, Monday
Monday would seem to be the most popular day for posting postcards. An analysis of the posting days for cards on this photostream reveals the following:
Moday 1,701
Tuesday 1,208
Wednesday 1,227
Thursday 1,081
Friday 1,227
Saturday 1,285
Sunday 1,271
Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls is 27 km (17 mi) northwest of Buffalo, New York, and 69 km (43 mi) southeast of Toronto, between the twin cities of Niagara Falls, Ontario, and Niagara Falls, New York.
Niagara Falls was formed when glaciers receded at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation (the last ice age), and water from the newly formed Great Lakes carved a path over and through the Niagara Escarpment en route to the Atlantic Ocean.
Niagara Falls is a group of three waterfalls at the southern end of Niagara Gorge, spanning the border between the province of Ontario in Canada and the state of New York in the United States.
The largest of the three is Horseshoe Falls, which straddles the international border of the two countries. It is also known as the Canadian Falls.
The smaller American Falls and Bridal Veil Falls lie within the United States. Bridal Veil Falls is separated from Horseshoe Falls by Goat Island and from American Falls by Luna Island, with both islands situated in New York.
Formed by the Niagara River, which drains Lake Erie into Lake Ontario, the combined falls have the highest flow rate of any waterfall in North America that has a vertical drop of more than 50 m (160 ft).
During peak daytime tourist hours, more than 168,000 m3 (5.9 million cu ft) of water goes over the crest of the falls every minute.
Niagara Falls is famed for its beauty and is a valuable source of hydroelectric power. Balancing recreational, commercial, and industrial uses has been a challenge for the stewards of the falls since the 19th. century.
Khuda Bakhsh
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, the 3rd. August 1908 was not a good day for Khuda Bakhsh, because he died on that day.
Sir Khan Bahadur Khuda Bakhsh OIE FRAS, who was born on the 2nd. August 1842, was an Indian advocate, judge, philosopher, revolutionary freedom fighter, scholar and historian from Patna, Bihar.
He was the founder of the Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library, and Chief Justice of Nizam's Supreme Court of Hyderabad from 1895 to 1898.
Khuda Bakhsh maintains a strong legacy across the Islamic World for his contributions to Literature and History.
-- Khuda Bakhsh - The Early Years
Sir Khan Bahadur Khuda Bakhsh was born into a prominent noble family in Patna, Bihar. He was brought up under the guidance of his father, Sir Muhammed Bakhsh, a famous advocate and Zamindar from Patna.
His family was distinguished in scholarship, and one of his distant ancestors, Qazi Haibatullah, took part in compiling the Fatawa 'Alamgiri.
The House of Bakhsh were the official record-keepers who were given the responsibility by the Mughal Emperors of recording day-to-day activities across the Mughal Empire.
Khuda's father was a lawyer working in Bankipur, and although he was not wealthy, due to his passion for Persian and Arabic literature, he had amassed a collection of 1,400 manuscripts.
Khuda Bakhsh later added to this collection.
Khuda initially studied in Calcutta under the care of a Nawab Amir Ali Khan Bahadur. However his father's illness meant that he was recalled home to Bankipur to start work in order to help his family financially.
-- Khuda Bakhsh's Career
Khuda started his career as a Peshkar in 1868. He later became the Government pleader of Patna in 1880.
During this time his father became very ill. In his dying breath, he asked his son to open a public library. Khuda inherited 1,400 manuscripts from his father.
In 1890 Bakhsh built a two-story library which was inaugurated in 1891 by the former Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, Sir Charles Elliott. Bakhsh donated his manuscripts and books to the public on the 14th. January 1891. He later expanded the collection to 4,000 manuscripts and 80,000 books.
He became the first director of the library, and remained in that position until his death, except for a brief period from 1895 to 1898 when he served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hyderabad.
Khuda Bakhsh was a great friend of Shibil Nomani and Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, with whom he worked in order to introduce multiple reform in the education system of British India.
Sir Khuda Bakhsh was approached by representatives of the British Museum who made a stunning offer to purchase his collection, but he declined. He informed V. C. Scott O'Connor, an orientalist based in Edinburgh, England:
"I am a poor man, and the sum they offered me
was a princely fortune, but could I ever part for
money with that to which my father and I have
dedicated our lives?"
No. The collection is for Patna, and the gift shall
be laid at the feet of the Patna public".
The library was designated as an institution of national importance on the 26th. December 1969 by an act of Parliament.
-- The Death and Legacy of Khuda Bakhsh
Khuda Bakhsh was a very simple man with great vision and commitment. He died at the age of 66 on the 3rd. August 1908, and was laid to rest in the library grounds.
The Khuda Bakhsh Award for scholars for their lifetime achievements in the fields in which the library specializes was created in his honor in 1992.
Mahatma Gandhi commented on the legacy of Bakhsh:
"I heard about this beautiful library nine years
ago and I've been looking forward to seeing it
ever since.
I was very happy to see the priceless treasure
of rare books here. I pay tribute to the great
founder of this library who has spent every
penny to give this invaluable treasure to India."
The historian, Jadunath Sarkar, referred to Khuda Bakhsh as the "Indian Bodley" in reference to Thomas Bodley, the founder of the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 29th of July 1916.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images and have any stories and information to add please comment below.
We hope you enjoy looking through our collection, you are welcome to download and share our images for your own personal use, as they are to our knowledge, in the public domain. If you would like to use the images for commercial purposes, please contact us and we can provide a High Quality Digital Image for a Fee. If you are able to use the Low Resolution Image from the website please do, but we would appreciate a credit: Image from the Newcastle City Library Photographic Collection, Thank you.
Minda Haas Kuhlmann | 2015
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My work featured in magazine publications for Sav. This one is just to show the front of the mags, my work is not here ;-)
'New Blue' is a collection of essays from bright centre-right thinkers, including MPs from the 2015 and 2017 intakes, published by the Centre for Policy Studies
A postally unused carte postale published by Beaussieu.
Douvres-la-Délivrande is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in Northwestern France. The name incorporates the name of the Basilica Notre-Dame de la Délivrande ("Our Lady of Deliverance") which is located in the town and is a site of pilgrimage.
During the Second World War, Douvres-la-Délivrande was the site of an important German air-detection radar installation, part of the strategic Atlantic Wall defences.
Completed in the autumn of 1943, the station was split into two zones by the road from Douvres to Bény-sur-Mer, and heavily fortified with bunkers, machine guns and minefields.
The Northern zone held a large Siemens 'Wasserman' long-range radar and associated structures.
The larger Southern zone had two intermediate-range Freya and two short-range Würzburg Riese radars, as well as command and infirmary bunkers, garages and artillery placements.
Some 230 Luftwaffe personnel were based at the station, including electricians, engineers and 36 air controllers.
At 11 pm on the night of 5th./6th. June 1944, the Allies launched intensive jamming of radar frequencies which blinded the entire German radar network from Cherbourg to Le Havre. On the morning of the 6th. (D-Day) the antennas at Douvres-la-Délivrande were rendered inoperative by Allied naval artillery bombardment.
Canadian troops who had landed nearby on 'Juno Beach' isolated the station, but the Germans successfully defended it for 12 days, awaiting a counter-attack by Panzers. On one occasion it was resupplied with food via a nocturnal paradrop mission from Mont-de-Marsan.
On the 17th. June, a massive offensive by the British 41 Commando, Royal Marines - preceded by an artillery bombardment and supported by mine-clearing and anti-bunker tanks of 79th Armoured Division - secured the surrender of the garrison.
The radar site at Douvres-la-Délivrande is now home to a museum, with two of the bunkers housing displays about the evolution and role of radar. The museum also maintains a rare preserved example of the 'Würzburg' radar antenna.
The commune has a war cemetery with the graves of 1123 soldiers from both the Allied and Axis forces:
927 British
180 Germans
11 Canadians
3 Australians
1 Pole
1 unknown soldier.
On October 14, 2008, the first-ever India Hunger Index released along with the global Hunger Index by International Food Policy and Research Institute (IFPRI) found that India ranked 66 among 88 countries in the index where Madhya Pradesh had the most severe level of hunger in the country, placing India between Ethiopia and Chad. According to the UNICEF, 2.1 million deaths occur every year in India of children who are under five, half of which are due to under nourishment. Thirty percent of new born in India are born with low birth weight.
A photofeature from the hunger capital of India, Madhya Pradesh. A set of eight photographs by me complements the narration by Shriya Mohan. The feature appeared in the November 2-8, 2008, issue of the weekly news magazine TEHELKA, published from New Delhi, India.
For an online version of the story click:
www.tehelka.com/story_main40.asp?filename=cr081108Weight_...
The Postcard
A postally unused Édition Artistique postcard published by P. Coustoulides of Alexandria in Egypt.
Alexandria
Alexandrie or Alexandria, nicknamed the Pearl of the Mediterranean, is the second-largest city in Egypt after Cairo, and a major economic centre, extending about 32 km (20 mi) along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the north central part of the country.
Its low elevation on the Nile delta makes it highly vulnerable to rising sea levels.
Alexandria is an important industrial center because of its natural gas and oil pipelines from Suez. Alexandria is also a popular tourist destination.
Alexandria - The Early Years
Alexandria was founded around a small, ancient Egyptian town c. 332 BC by Alexander the Great. It became an important center of Hellenistic civilization and remained the capital of Ptolemaic (Greek) Egypt and Roman and Byzantine Egypt for almost 1000 years, until the Muslim conquest of Egypt in AD 641, when a new capital was founded at Fustat (later absorbed into Cairo).
Hellenistic Alexandria was best known for the Lighthouse of Alexandria (Pharos), one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World; its Great Library (the largest in the ancient world; now replaced by a modern one); and the Necropolis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Middle Ages.
Alexandria was the second most powerful city of the ancient world after Rome. Ongoing maritime archaeology in the harbor of Alexandria, which began in 1994, is revealing details of Alexandria both before the arrival of Alexander, when a city named Rhacotis existed there, and during the Ptolemaic dynasty.
Alexandria - Later Development
From the late 18th century, Alexandria became a major centre of the international shipping industry, and one of the most important trading centers in the world, both because it profited from the easy overland connection between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, and from the lucrative trade in Egyptian cotton.
Akira Himekawa is actually two different women, A. Honda and S. Nagano, working under the same pen-name to write, draw, and produce fantastic manga! The creators of ten volumes of The Legend of Zelda manga published by VIZ Media, and My Little Pony:
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