TERRORISTS/FREEDOM FIGHTERS

LEST WE FORGET.

clipped from english.aljazeera.net Five veterans launch legal battle against British government for alleged torture. clipped from english.aljazeera.net “We are demanding compensation because we were in concentration camps for 10 years, our children did not go to school.” Thousands of Kenyan peasants were rounded up and forced into camps by the British during what was known as the Mau Mau uprising against colonial rule. The UK has indicated that the claim is invalid because of the amount of time that has passed since the alleged abuses – and that any liability rested with the Kenyan authorities after independence in 1963. The British described the Mau Mau as a group of “bloodthirsty terrorists”, and news reports in the US and Britain during the 1950s made the name Mau Mau synonymous with African tribal violence against whites. Veterans of the war claim they and their colleagues were made to suffer barbaric treatment such as summary executions, torture, rape, beatings, forced labour and evictions, as the British suppressed the rebellion.

The Bravery and Beauty of Iranian Women

For Neda…murdered by a government paid scumbag

clipped from www.abovetopsecret.com Persian women are truely amongst the most beautiful on Earth. Therefore! this is a tribute to her and to all brave Persian women who are now at risk to be killed by these low-life scum and human filth! (many ugly fanatic men in the Baji Militia hate all these young beautiful women they can never get – so they can kill them easy because of this hate & jealousy!) These are their faces! these are her brave beautiful sisters who now risk their own lives for freedom & democracy – and for a better future! I admire them all! The Face of A Revolution The old & young Iran – the beauty and the beast! Students without the established & hated dress code Any of these beautiful souls and many more of them, could be murdered tomorrow. In this beautiful city of insanity & turmoil!

Tender and Loving testimony.

clipped from mail.google.com “onto the mosaic of victory was laid this precious piece“ This was written on the tombstone of a British soldier fallen on D DAY.

SUBLIME

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STUNNING!

clipped from www.nytimes.com clipped from www.nytimes.com This male marble statue is from the 2nd century B.C. clipped from www.nytimes.com This marble statue of a youth is roughly 2,600 years old. clipped from www.nytimes.com The second floor, reached by a glass ramp, features a rich and extensive trove of free-standing objects from the archaic and classical periods. clipped from www.nytimes.com The Caryatid sculptures, which date to the late 5th century B.C. and once propped up part of the ancient Erechtheion temple on the Acropolis, are displayed on a balcony. clipped from www.nytimes.com The museum has five floors that provide space for 4,000 artifacts, ten times the number displayed in the old building. Images of some of the pieces follow. clipped from www.nytimes.com The design, introduced in 2001, was meant to be completed in time for the 2004 Olympics, but legal battles delayed the process for years. clipped from www.nytimes.com The new facility, 226,000 square feet of glass and concrete designed by the New York-based architect Bernard Tschumi, replaces the old Acropolis Museum, a small 1874 building tucked into the rock of the Acropolis next to the Parthenon.

A worthy successor?

clipped from www.aaha.ch Bibliotheca Alexandrina (photo prise par Carla Manzardo en octobre 2002) (Photo prise par Mohamed Nafea – Bibliotheca Alexandrina – en 2002)

MAALOULA

Christ would not be a stranger here.

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Mari.

Every day I realise, with deep humility, how little I know.

clipped from atlastours.net Mari, Syria Mari was an ancient kingdom on the western bank of the Euphrates which flourished in the 3rd millennium BC as an important hub between the main irrigation-based states of the Land of the Two Rivers (Tigris and Euphrates) and the drier plains of Northern Syria and the Upper Euphrates/Khabur system, occupied by Akkadians, Sumerians, Amarite, and destroyed in about 1760 BC by King Hammorabi. It was the capital of the 10th dynasty after the flood. This palace is the most impressive and best preserved of the Early Bronze Age palaces unearthed in the region. It is one of the most extensive excavated in the Middle East and was constructed across several centuries, though it misleadingly bears the name of the last ruler, Zimri-Lim. The fact that the building was deliberately destroyed, its mud walls half knocked down to fill in the rooms, accounts for its remarkable state of preservation.