Monthly Archives: September 2005

Glittering generality – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Stumbleupon Review of : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glittering_generality Glittering generalities are emotionally appealing words so closely associated with highly valued concepts and beliefs that they carry conviction without supporting information or reason. They appeal to such emotions such as as love of country, … Continue reading

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Tom Kumpf Photography – Home

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.tomkumpf.com/ Photography and Writing by Tom Quinn Kumpf, who is also on StumbleUpon. From his blog: —— Spent much of my life working as a photojournalist, documentary photog. Have time in Somolia, East Africa, middle and … Continue reading

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TIMEasia Magazine: Best of Asia – Extreme Yak Sports

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.time.com/time/asia/2005/boa/boa_yak.html From the page: “In the Indian hill resort of Manali, Tibetan Peter Dorje runs an operation dedicated to the most implausible extreme sport in the world: yak skiing. In winter, he takes up to five … Continue reading

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Lebanon – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Stumbleupon Review of : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon Lebanon .

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111101 – Letters

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.111101.net/Writings/Letters/index.php ‘Letter’ And there it came, like a far familiar cry from long ago. You hear it, you turn you head, not knowing if it is in your head, boring at you, telling you that it’s … Continue reading

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Lebanon War Pictures

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.cedarland.org/warpixs1.html Lebanese girls, all members of the right wing Phalangist Party, man a sandbagged barricade and point their guns down a street in downtown Beirut in preperation for an assualt, November 2, 1975. Bashir Gemayel reassures … Continue reading

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cedarland.org/warpics1.html

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.cedarland.org/warpics1.html U.S. Marines land at a Beirut beach 1958. .

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cedarland.org/warpics.html

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.cedarland.org/warpics.html Druze members of the rebel army led by Kamal Jumblatt in Lebanon in 1958. Rebels take cover during a brief encounter in the ruins at Baalbek. Pillars dominate ruins in the background. June 22, 1958 … Continue reading

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Lebanon War Pictures

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.cedarland.org/warpixs3a.html A typical day in Beirut. Summer, 1982.

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Lebanon War Pictures

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.cedarland.org/warpixs3.html East Beirut under Syrian artillery assault, 1978 A Lebanese Army trooper draped in a 23mm cartridge belt.

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