Today's car boot sale treasure. Candlestick or incense burner with four Argali wild sheep.
1950s (probably) casting of a bronze age design from the Koban culture around Chechnya and Dagestan.
A great piece of writing
Useful maps
Nirvana Spice, late
For audition, so sadly
Not one of The Girls
#DailyHaikuPrompt (Nirvana , Spice)
#haiku #senryu
V nice.
Is that a kilim or a pile rug?
It's escaped destruction during previoud genocides and WW1 Istanbul, so it may be charmed. But your incantations are greatly appreciated!
And unique. I've researched it extensively but can't find the original it was copied from.
Excellent obit of an old friend of ours who deserves to be better known. Suitable for Radio 4's Other Lives.
www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
Hmm.... Lapiz and Turquoise. Must buy the book :-)
A kilim in terracotta, gold and faded blue. Its design is based on the house livery of the Mongol emperor Hulagu Khan and it contains multiple Christian crosses. It belonged, from 1915 to 1926 to Gertrude Bell.
Rug of the Day
Kilim woven in Urmia, N W Iran in the 1890s, to a design by an English missionary, but copying an older design from the region.
It's a long story. It's currently in Erbil, not far from the airport and the Rotana Hotel, so a new chapter in its history may now be opening.
Important Work!
Apologies - visitors mostly only see the strip. Though I once organised a party for clients at CES somewhere in the hills outside town 'cos we couldn't afford to rent a room in the city.
I wonder whether there was an American puritan thing going on. Come to our desert palaces to indulge your sins, because they're not really in "America", they're in sinful foreign places where such things have always been indulged. Leave purged, cleaned out and head home.
Very cool that Sir Tom had a planetarium named after him!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_...
The whole of Las Vegas is literally this. Punt on a gondola through a shopping mall, play slots under the Eiffel Tower, preen your way through Ancient Rome in a bathrobe.
A worthy cause. A plant that's both food and dyestuff.
rosemaryandpinesfiberarts.de/natural-dyei...
Next Supreme Leader? Trump reviewing CVs
Dara Khosrowshahi (Uber) - No, funds Democrats
Pierre Omidyar (Ebay) - No, too French, too Woke
Arash Ferdowsi (DropBox) - Maybe - MIT, but not busy
Shervin Pishevar (Sherpa Capital) - No - Backed Obama
Hey Stephen, don't you have any good fascist Iranians?
You never gnow what's in those store-bought items, gnotobiotically, I mean.
They have such a long history of hope, disappointment and betrayal that I'm sure they'll take Trump and Hegseth's dumb version with a very large pinch of salt.
I'm up to funeral savings plans and care homes now!
"Gnowing" not growing - got spellchecker!
Was wondering about this, too. Allegedly, gnome comes from Greek ge (earth) and nomos (dweller) rather than some obscure Proto Indo European root related to discernment and knowing (growing?) Also, I failed to observe that I needed a gnother gnomon.
Making a sundial in my garden and I find I have a tree whose shadow obscures my gnomon from 8.30am to 10.00am. (antignomial?)
So I'm going to need multiple gnomons (gnómonas Gr) as well multiple dials, which will all need to be adjustable for British Summer Time.
(Posted as a non-war diversion)
If you want to know more about the origins of the United States’s difficult relationship with Iran you’ll find more here:
I trust The Aunties are on top of the situation this time, since Eunice isn't ready yet!
Well done! (Especially in the awful circumstances) A great colour.
It's always "The President made a decision" with these muppets. It's never, "We made a decision."
Trump is their fall guy, and no-one will admit collective responsibility come the tribunals.
UNESCO-listed Golestan Palace damaged by US/Israeli bombing. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/03/u... A historic building and archive of priceless objects like the Timurid era Shahnameh that we visited in Art of Persia (from 28 min 24s). www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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