The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today 

swift relief

Automotive sector

 cars are replacing the role that oil previously had in the domestic economy.

 

The Unlocked Leader: Dare to Free Your Own Voice, Lead with Empathy, and Shine Your Light in the World

"Trauma casts a long shadow on how we think and behave.. long after"

 

The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Conn Iggulden's Conqueror series

Babur started in Yak-langa in Uroagan, Afghanistan and stopped at the meadow of Dih-i-ya gub opposite Kamri or present day Ab Kamari which looks so luscious green.

A feast for Babur hosted by his half-brother Jahangir Mirza in Ghazni in May 1505 in dih-i-ya qub

Daniel Waugh's take on the place from Babur's memoir and compare it with Clavijo's description from 100 years ago.

The Ancient City: A Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Ancient Greece and Rome

 

The Ancient City: A Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Ancient Greece and Rome

Constitution of the Lacedaemonians

plural of magistrate is magistracies

Metempsychosis

 

The Negev: The Challenge of a Desert

Interesting that scientists actually did farming to understand how the previous generations were able to farm with little water - eg runoff farming from the occasional floods.

Athens Street Art

 What if you could enter into these worlds of street art of Athens. 

This train like the Harry Potter platform.

Design Elements

 Bollards

Beautiful Picket fences

Menacing Fences

Poets say few words

 

Poets say two lines and make the world go round.. It reminds me of the Tauba Tauba Kailash Kher song where the love pining , spans across many couples, but never in the right direction.. I was looking for inspiration to write a love poem. Started with this Natalie Diaz book and came across the 

"We admitted that we were human beings

and melted for love in this desert" - Mahmoud Darwish

I came across these other poems by Mahmoud Darwish. I finally found my way to the love in the desert poem but stopped in my tracks by these two lines.

"But now I am not I,

                                                       nor is my house now my house." - Frederico Garcia Lorca I wanted to read literature of other languages. Following the google map, I am seeing a new kind of poetry of place. I come across poems in all kinds of science books and history books. Deep Song or Cante Jondo has origins in Indian music system.   

The row of palms shows the fugue lines of photography composition, that at once are long but take you closer to your destiny    

Our gods are stone

Fire started with stones

Our buildings are stone

Our millstone

our spices in the hearth

use stone

For the slipping sand

stone is the stable friend

of our life

Sushila

 Who is Sushila?

 

The Palace of Illusions: A Novel 

Kampilya

Star/planet identification

 Cinque terre lead me to this star/planet identification way which I have been meaning to know.

Golden Book of Taormina

Ancient theatre of Taormina

Carl Rottmann's Taormina undertaking is a grand one. This topography view is a study of atmospheric phenomena. He seems to be fascinated by clouds. How is it that I am learning of "cycles" in painting now? There is always something new, isnt there? 

Landscape painting Erdlebenbildkundst or pictorial art of the life of the earth was seen as an attempt by Alexander Humboldt as an attempt by integratives trying to piece the puzzles that each branch of science is trying to anaswer.

 

To Salt or not

 salty circuits in the brain

 

The Art Lover's Guide to Barcelona