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Monday, October 27, 2014
A Sultan's Observatory
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The Ulugh Beg Observatory Museum, built in 1970 Ulugh Beg is the more familiar name of Mīrzā Muhammad Tāraghay bin Shāhrukh (22 March 1...
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
The Founding of Baghdad
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The red pin is Kufa, the purple pin is Baghdad, about 170 km north. The Abbasids had taken over from the Umayyads, and in order to make...
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
The Crimea
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The much-disputed Crimean Peninsula On the north coast of the Black Sea, a peninsula extends from the southern part of Ukraine. If you l...
Monday, April 22, 2013
Medieval Chechnya
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Recent events in Boston have underscored what Americans do not know about world geography. The news that the alleged bombers were Chechen, f...
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