arms dealers, insurgent armies, latter-day slave traders and plain, old-fashioned bandits, it is also the home of an extraordinarily wide range of colourful ethnic minorities, many still only partly known and understood, and a veritable Tower of Babel linguistically. ...
To say I’ve fallen in love with this country would be an understatement—not just for its spectacular scenery, but also for its friendly people, surprisingly delicious food, pristine air and water (and cities!), and mesmerizing night sky. Our New Zealand trip is always in June or early J...
punitively walled city. Ildefons Cerda's new plan patterned most of Barcelona's postwall expansion (Eixample) along broad avenues and regular near-octagonal blocks whose intersections allowed for trains but scarcely served for the statuary commemoration of other European cities, while his seminal ...
These streets radiate out from the ancient walled city and create a distinct and beautiful image from above. The tiny buildings below, merely specks from this distance, house a population of over 900,000. Fish farms basins, NE China NASA Astronauts snapped this high-contrast image of the grid...
As the delicate printing on the mud at the water's edge retraces a visit of autumn birds long since departed, so the little scrabbled tablets in perished cities carry the seeds of human thought across the deserts of millennia. In this instance the teacher is the social brain, but it, ...
City managers do not pay enough attention to the poorer more congested areas of their cities. Zoning policies actually seem to be outmoded and to do harm to city populations by increasing the time required for people to shop and commute to work. The walled city of Delhi India is cited as ...
with a Papal mass in Ireland in 1979 resulting in a third of the population (1.25M) gathering in a single field, but paling in comparison with religious gatherings in India, including the Kumbh Mela which drew an unbelievable 60-70 million people over 45 days in 2007, making it the larges...
(and surviving) videos | Knock-off Game Consoles | Kowloon Walled City Guide | laptop stands | Lavish Home Theaters | lego like modular gadgets | life with a gas mask | light pipe architecture | linotypes from hell | lookout towers | lots of yellow submarines | macys parade ideas | ...
the prince received him with respect and took him straight to the Governor's Court (Persian: dār al-ḥokūmeh), which was known as the Four Towers Building (Persian: emārat-i chāhār burj) – a reference to the four large towers built in the four corners of the walled, rectangular ...
It is being sprayed day and night making X's, O's, A's and other grids in the sky over our global nations cities whether for weather modification, vector control, and/or aerial mass inoculations. Hear this - Chicken Little's- of the world it is time for us to grow up and not ...