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Afghanistan In Photos

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“How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.”

— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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Ленинград. Нарвские ворота [Leningrad. Narva Arch] [Leningrad. Narva-Bogen]

(1970 г.)

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‘Do you dream of me?’ you said.

Christina Rossetti, excerpt of The Convent Threshold (via antigonick)

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Olga Starikovskaya’s photograph of a statue of Marx in the fields of the Tver region, Russia

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Ukraine. Yalta. A picture of Lenin playing chess overlooks a club for younger students of the game. 1988

Bruno Barbey

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Bamiyan, Afghanistan

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My mother cries when she thinks of this.

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Afghan military cadets in Kabul hold up red roses for the Saur Revolution of 1978, when the Communist Party seized power and established the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. April 1989

via reddit

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Calat Alhamra, Granada, Andalusia, Spain

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Knife (Kard) via Arms and Armor

Medium: Steel, ivory (elephant), gold

Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/31699

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. 04/2002. Id-al-Fitr Mosque. Thomas Dworzak

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https://www.instagram.com/p/BQZj_kZBiH9/

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Sayat Nova (The Color Of Pomegranates), 1969

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The Zulfiqar Sword

Zulfiqar, meaning “bifurcated” (Arabic: ذو الفقار‎ Dhū l-Fiqār) is the sword of the Islamic leader Ali (or Husayn ibn ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib) who was the cousin of Muhammed. In Arabic the name is commonly transliterated as Dhu al-Fiqar, Thulfeqar, Dhulfiqar, or Zoulfikar.

Two swords were captured from the temple of Manat in the Raid of Sa’d ibn Zaid al-Ashhali. Muhammad gave them to Ali, saying that one of them was Al-Dhulfiqar, which became the famous sword of Ali and a symbol of Shia Islam. According to the Twelver Shia, Zulfiqar is currently in the possession of Imam Muhammad al-Mahdi, as part of his collection called al-Jafr.

The name of the sword influences still, for example the last Shah of Iran renamed the military order Portrait of the Commander of Faithful to Order of Zolfaghar. During the Bosnian War, a Bosnian army’s special unit was named “Zulfikar”.

Also, in 2010, The Islamic Republic of Iran revealed the attack boat dubbed the Zolfaghar, likening it to the sword as an unstoppable weapon of its time. The Iranian Zulfiqar main battle tank is also named after the sword.

Source & Copyright: Wikipedia 

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