The guardian first book award longlist: Empires of the Indus by Alice Albinia (Guardian Unlimited)
Pakistan's Indus river was fundamental to India before partition and retains its importance to this day, says Alice Albinia in this extract from her book, Empires of the Indus
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Art Galleries (Palo Alto Weekly)
"Off The Wall Small" Group show of small works. Show runs Jan. 9-Feb. 10, Free. For more information, call Pixie Couch at 650-701-1018 or e-mail pixiec@mindspring.com or visit www.themaingallery.org . The Main Gallery, 1018 Main St., Redwood City
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The Complete Guide to: Retro travel (Independent)
Can I travel back in time? Maybe not in a Dr Who kind of way, but a vast array of retro retreats are on offer, from old-fashioned British seaside holidays to kitsch Fifties-themed hotels in Mykonos to hiring a Harley-Davidson and heading off down Route 66 in the US.
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Eye-stopping glimpses of an exotic and forbidden world (Jewish World Review)
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | For anyone interested in fine painting, as distinct from 'great art', there is a treat at the Tate for them: a display of works by British artists, from the 17th to the 20th centuries, who depicted the Orient and those who liked to dress up in Eastern style.
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Monumental Art Work From Ancient Assyrian Palaces Heralded at MFA Boston (Art Daily)
The Palaces of Nimrud Restored, 1853, Paper, The Trustees of the British Museum, © The Trustees of the British Museum 2008. All rights reserved. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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Wisdom Like a Flower Bed: Sa'di's 'Gulistan' (The New York Sun)
Common sense is probably the last thing we want or expect from poets. Give us confessions, prophecies, manifestos, but spare us the advice — especially advice in verse. The poet should be a firebrand, not some mumbling old uncle. And yet, it wasn't always thus. In older cultures, not only in Greece and Rome but in India, Persia, and China, the poet was often seen less as a visionary than as a ...
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Comments on this story are moderated (Toronto Star)
The first-ever multimedia concert production of the Persian Trilogy , based on the Persian national epic poem Shahnameh, will make history tomorrow at Roy Thomson Hall.
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Billy Graham is a Devil Worshipper! (Indymedia Chiapas)
Ha Ha! Fooled you! He is the Devil himself! "Psst! Lets go to a crusade, pose as Christians, and get rid of anyone who is stupid enough to come down and assume the title of Jesus Christ!" "You know what we do with Messiahs, don't you?"
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