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Uruk (Cuneiform: or URUUNUG; Sumerian: Unug; Akkadian: Uruk; Arabic: وركاء, Warkā'; Aramaic/Hebrew: אֶרֶךְ Erech; Ancient Greek: Ὀρχόη, translit. Orchoē, Ὠρύγεια Ōrugeia) was an ancient city of Sumer and later Babylonia, situated east of the present bed of the Euphrates river, on the dried-up, ancient channel of the Euphrates River, some 30 km east of modern Samawah, Al-Muthannā, Iraq.[1]
Uruk is the type site for the Uruk period. Uruk played a leading role in the early urbanization of Sumer in the mid 4th millennium BC. At its height c. 2900 BC, Uruk probably had 50,000–80,000 residents living in 6 km2 (2.32 sq mi) of walled area; making it the largest city in the world at the time.[1] The legendary king Gilgamesh, according to the chronology presented in the Sumerian king list, ruled Uruk in the 27th century BC. The city lost its prime importance around 2000 BC, in the context of the struggle of Babylonia with Elam, but it remained inhabited throughout the Seleucid and Parthian periods until it was finally abandoned shortly before or after the Islamic conquest.
The site of Uruk was visited in 1849 by William Kennett Loftus who led the first excavations from 1850 to 1854, and had identified it as "Erech", known as "the second city of Nimrod".[2]
The Arabic name of Babylonia, al-ʿIrāq, is thought to be derived from the name Uruk, via Aramaic (Erech) and possibly Middle Persian (Erāq) transmission.
Description: Sample pages of a book printed in Boston Line Type, an embossed Roman alphabet for use by the blind, titled "The Blind Child's Second Book". The book contains educational materials for children. This volume is one of the first books printed by the Perkins Institution.
Publisher: New England Institution for the Education of the Blind (Perkins), Boston
Date: 1836
Format: text
Digital Identifier: BLTIMG_3047
Rights: Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA
Description on front of card: Lake, Wade Park, Cleveland, Ohio.
Date written on card: July 6, 1914
The message on the back of the card:
Racine, Wisconsin.
July 1914
Dear friend, just a few lines to let you know that I am alive and working.
Did not get a chance to come down before coming back to Racine.
Leeta you can have my wash boiler if you can find a way to get it down there.
Paul says for you to come by there if you can and look over the lace [?].
The mice got in there so they not as good as I thought but she can look them over and see what you can use of them if any [?] perhaps you can find some that can be used.
Bye bye.
Ever a friend.
Yours with love.
523 College Ave, Macdowell House
Addressed to:
Mrs. Leeta Gray
213 S. 5th St.
Rockford, Illinois
Era: Divided Back Era
Condition: Used. Writing on the back. Marks on the front.
Publisher: W.W. Hixson & Co., Rockford, Ill.
~ Nadie sabe entender que quiero amanecer porque amaneces, que quiero anochecer porque anocheces, que quiero sonreir porque sonries, que entre tus brazos soy un alma libre, que tus palabras son mi relegión, mi luz tu voz, mi aire tu olor, que la luna está ocupada por aquel letrero en alza que subiste con tus labios para que siempre al mirarla supiera que piensas en mi. Nadie sabe entender que quiero darte cada segundo, que quiero crear contigo un mundo en el que nadie nos impida, nos aleje o nos prohiba, en el que nadie juzgue lo que merece la pena o no por alguno de los dos, en el que el tiempo no decida que te vayas o me vaya, en el que sepas que cada trozo de mi vida, cada gesto, cada risa es para tí.
I fall upon the rivers edge,
snow cold cocoon enveloping me
frozen fingers writing in snow,
can’t erase the pain I feel,
can’t erase this mistake
in my life of mistakes,
ancient frozen upon the river,
no bridge to the other side,
no bridge to cross to you.
I see you standing there, your
heart black and blue. Blue
to red then to black turning
back to red as you turn away.
Rolling darkness wraps her arms
around my cold shivering body,
wondering aloud she asks
“where have you been?” Foolishly
I tell her of you, of happy, she
laughs at me for being happy,
even for just a moment.
You gave me wholeness those cold days
when I was alone.
like a child I wanted more, sticky fingers
grabbing before you were ready.
stamping my shoes on the floor
scuffing both, onto an irrevocable path.
Zen melting into dirty attachments,
a petulant boy guised as a man,
nothing between the lines to read,
it’s all there, non-Koan.
How deep can I go I ask her
through desert eyes,
“how long is your life” she asks,
then turns away.
A child acting with self-indulgence
selfishness foolishness,
now a man laying awash in tears,
remorse, futility.
the man seeing clearly awakes,
chilled to the bone upon
the river bank.
I’ll always be alone now that you're gone.
My love was real, alas the petulant boy
guised as a man, was more real.
This man was writing a poem for my newly adopted son in Guangzhou (Canton) 廣州 (Traditional Chinese) 广州 (Simplified Chinese), China in September of 2004.
Originally taken on a 3 MP point and shoot camera, it has been heavily reworked in Photoshop CS3. My goal was to try to recreate the feeling of being there and this comes fairly close -- at least for me.
in the shower and one of my favorite songs came on my ipod,
so I decided to write it on my shower wall!
Canadian Booklet Pane #35 - 3 cents (252a) - pane of 4 + 2 labels
Registered Box - R / Crescent, B.C. / No. 267
Crescent Beach Postal History:
This is a cover / envelope with an example of the split ring cancel used at Crescent, B.C. in 1948.
Crescent Beach, B.C. was originally called Crescent Lodge, B.C. from May 1, 1907 to March 31, 1909. It was changed to Crescent, B.C. on April 1, 1909 and finally to Crescent Beach, B.C. on December 23, 1951.
It is said that an eminent politician coming in by sea remarked that the spit looked like a crescent and so the name stuck. It was later changed to Crescent Beach on the request of a local postmaster because mail was being misdirected to other post offices with similar names.
Cover sent to Mr. Jos P. Fitzpatrick / 1018 Sonthard Drive / Trenton, N.J. / U.S.A.
Well, how wrong can I get just writing our names in? (Yes, I looked up wedding etiquette and figured this out. How anachronistic.)
Official 58th Presidential Inauguration Street Signs on 7th at F Street, NW, Washington DC on Thursday afternoon, 19 January 2017 by Elvert Barnes Photography
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Thursday, 19 January 2017 Pre-Inauguration Day Docu-Project: Street Photography
Elvert Barnes 58th Presidential Inauguration 2017 Project
Description on front of card: County Court House, Columbus, O.
No. in Series: 43.-12 ("43" appears to be a collection of Columbus, Ohio scenes)
Date written on card: August 14, 1907
Postmark: August 14, 1907 (Columbus, Ohio)
Addressed to:
Mrs. Tilla J. Lincoln
Cedar Creek, Nebraska
Ink Stamp: Missent to ST. CHARLES, MO.
Cancel Type: Machine cancel
Stamp: Green 1-cent
Era: Undivided Back Era
Condition: Used. Writing on both sides. Some ink bleed-through on the front. Posted.
Publisher: Illustrated Postal Card Co. New York
Printed in Leipzig.
Publisher Note:
The Illustrated Postal Card Co. of New York was a major publisher of tinted halftone postcards from 1905-1914. The cards were printed by Emil Pinkau in Leipzig, Saxony. Their early cards only had an eagle rather than their name.
The "Rule of Three" is a very general principle in speaking and writing that suggests that things that come in threes are inherently funnier, more satisfying, or more memorable than other numbers of things. This creative mind map showcases a couple of explicit examples (read more on www.drawmeanidea.com/2012/02/rule-of-three-mind-map.html)
Cover for an unwritten book
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I believe the photograph of the beautiful girl on which the cover picture is based is Public Domain; should this not be the case and you are the copyright owner of the original image, please contact me.
Calligraphie - calligraphy
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with Stéphane Alfonsi - www.facebook.com/stephane.alfonsi