For all who are interested in carpets from Afghanistan, Volume 3 of the Antique Collectors’ Club Oriental Rugs series by R. D. Parsons is a must [1]. Parsons not only displays more than 150 color plates with beautiful examples but also provides the fascinated reader with most valuable information about the manufacture of carpets [...]
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R.D. Parsons’ Rugs
Posted in Afghanistan, Art, tagged Baluchi carpets, Dinie Gootjes, R.D. Parsons, Shir Khosrow Paiwand, Tukoman carpets, Turkotek, women's art on January 30, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Sola Tilbake
Posted in Norway, tagged Arctic Circle, sun, Tromsø on January 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Always a big issue, the return of the sun at 69˚40’N 18˚56’E yesterday was celebrated by all international staff with a cacophonia of Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, and English. Berliner Bollen were served and pictures taken of the sun which still hid itself behind the mist. For this post, I had to chose a [...]
Tunnels
Posted in Iran, tagged Esfahan, tunnels, uranium enrichment on January 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
In another pretty provocative (after last month’s demand for ‘bombing Iran’ by Alan J. Kuperman) and, I suppose intentionally meant, alarming New York Times op-ed William J. Broad assumes that, over the years, Iran had largely expanded a tunnel system, thus enabling the regime in Tehran to fortify its (allegedly clandestine) nuclear program and hide [...]
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