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chriscruzism: Hardy Amies presented its Spring/Summer...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:48:16 -0400

Hardy Amies presented its Spring/Summer 2014 collection during London Collections: Men, featuring a masculine silhouette, sharp tailoring and Saul Bass references.

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champagne: alovelettertorome.com Castle, Santa Lucia district,...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:44:20 -0400

champagne:

alovelettertorome.com

Castle, Santa Lucia district, Naples, Italy, 2013

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other-wordly: pronunciation | ‘sE-yazhnotes | sillage is how...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:41:52 -0400

other-wordly:

pronunciation | ‘sE-yazh
notes | sillage is how close a perfume stays to your skin; perfume with light sillage does not leave much trace in the air. also, not to be confused with silage (sy-ladzh), which is a type of cow food.

| ♕ | Miunicipio di Piacenza | by © maxdori | via ysvoice

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:40:52 -0400

| ♕ | Miunicipio di Piacenza | by © maxdori | via ysvoice

fyeah-history: Afghan women in the 1920s

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:21:58 -0400

fyeah-history:

Afghan women in the 1920s

Uganda: Museveni's 10,000 Days in Power

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:37:16 -0400

Uganda: Museveni's 10,000 Days in Power:

On 15 June, Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, joined the ‘10,000 Club’, a small coterie of world leaders who have held power for over 10,000 days – more than 27 years. In Africa, only Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, and Jose Eduardo Dos Santos of Angola have remained in office longer.

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strangeaberration: Jesuits at the Court of Mughal Emperor...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:31:15 -0400

strangeaberration:

Jesuits at the Court of Mughal Emperor Akbar

Utopian emperor, Akbar the great; in search for the age of reason

two-browngirls: DARA SHIKOH - دارا شكوه Dara was the eldest son...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:28:55 -0400

two-browngirls:

DARA SHIKOH - دارا شكوه

Dara was the eldest son of Mumtaz Mahal and Shah Jahan. Not only was he fine as heck, he was also an advocate for the coexistence of different religions and dedicated a large part of his intellectual endeavours to finding the similarities between Islam and Hinduism. He wrote the Majma Ul Bahrain (the mingling of two oceans), which proposed a monistic understanding of Hinduism. He also translated the Upanishads into Persian, and learnt of the Hindu concept of the oneness of God (like tawhid in Islam).

In the Mughal Study day Seet and I attended on Saturday, there was a lecture on the Dara Shikoh Album - a collection of calligraphy and paintings that he assembled. Check out parts of it in The British Library - they are incredible!

Dara was brutally murdered by Aurangzebe’s (who was his younger brother) henchmen; Aurangzebe ordered that he be shamed publicly in chains, and, after execution, commanded that Dara’s head be sent to his father, Shah Jahan, served on a platter.

It breaks my heart to learn of a how a beautiful and intelligent man died in such a savage and horrific way
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