Posts Tagged ‘Decade’
Three exhibitions. New York – Metropolitan Museum of Art – fino al 21/2/10 Three exhibitions American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915 / Pablo Bronstein at the Met / Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799) Metropolitan Museum Exhibition Features 100 Iconic American Paintings That Tell Stories of Everyday Life From the decade before the Revolution to the eve of World War I, many of America's most acclaimed painters captured in their finest works the temperament of th
MALAYSIA: Polygamy club woos M’sia
Sunday, September 27th, 2009
. SINGAPORE / The Straits Times / SE Asia / September 28, 2009 RAWANG, Malaysia WHEN she was practicing law, Kartini Maarof once went beyond the call of duty for her divorce client. She arranged for Rohaya Mohamad, a mother of seven, to be married again - to Ms Kartini's own husband. The spouse they have shared for a decade is 43-year-old Ikramullah Ashaari, who has four wives and 17 children. His 72-year-old father has 38 offspring from five marriages, without ever having flouted Is
London Calling
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
Iran and the UK have a long intertwined history — but familiarity doesn’t always breed contempt. Members of Prime Minister Mossadegh’s family went to school in Britain; even Ali Kordan, Ahmadinejad’s minister, apparently coveted an Oxford degree. By D. PARVAZ in London | 19 Aug 2009 [TEHRAN BUREAU] As far as being a stranger in a strange land goes, being an Iranian in the U.K. — well, London, specifically — feels oddly comfortable. But why is that? I’ve lived in U.S. for a decade, a
NEPAL: Flying Frog, Smallest Deer Among Array of New Himalayan Species
Monday, August 10th, 2009
FROM BLOOMBERG.COM Aug. 10: A flying frog, the world’s smallest deer and a green viper feature among 353 new species found in a decade of research into the eastern Himalayas. The discoveries from 1998 to 2008 put the region on par with the Indonesian island of Borneo as a “biological hotspot,” the WWF International said today in a report titled the Eastern Himalayas: Where Worlds Collide. The findings show the importance of protecting the area, which spans northern Myanmar and India,
The evolution of Calgary’s deadly gang war (Vancouver Sun)
Sunday, March 15th, 2009
Before FOB and FK, there was the"Runaway Gang." That's the nickname police investigators gave a ragtag bunch of troublemakers who either attended Forest Lawn High School or spent time hanging around the school a decade ago.
