Some History, Fresno, California & Other Places

An idea I have is to upload all pictures I have that are historical in nature for all history buffs to use and enjoy. Hope you enjoy it.

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Persuading Terrorist Cowards

After the tragic terrorist attack yesterday in NYC (where I am now), leaders were quick to say it was an act of terror and the perpetrator was a coward. Both terms are persuasion mistakes. I’ll tell you why.

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Good thoughts

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Me on the left with my sister and brother, watching the repairs being done to downtown Fresno, CA.  1954.  After an earthquake.

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About 1955 inn front of the Hardy’s theater in Fresno on Van Ness Avenue

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Imaginary News

I think we can all agree that there has been plenty of fake news coming from both sides. Fake news is usually intentional, although in some cases it is the result of honest mistakes. But lately we are seeing an entirely new type of untrue news. I call it Imaginary News. Here’s a good example from the Huffington Post.

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Cooling down.

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We lived in an area they called the ‘giaour neighbourhood’. All the residents of our neighbourhood were people with strong roots, they knew their family’s history. They might not have been very cultured, but they possessed human virtues. On the other hand, everyone else had been injected with the idea that we were minorities. In fact, let me recount an incident that had a great impact on me. I was five years old, the daughter of our neighbour came, we had a large courtyard, we were sitting and playing a game, I was so happy… Suddenly she said, “You are Armenian, you have the cradle of needles.” She started crying. “Why are you crying, aren’t we playing happily together,” I said. “You have the cradle of needles, you will put me in that cradle and my blood will begin to flow,” she said. I was doing all I could to prevent her from leaving. Our gate was huge, it had a hook, I pulled the hook down to stop her. “No, you’re not going,” I kept saying, but the child was shouting at the top of her voice. Then her mother came, and started shouting, “You giaours, what did you do to my child?” So words like ‘giaour’ became words that aroused hatred in me. Then my maternal aunt came down from the house and a huge, noisy fight broke out. I had triggered a huge neighbourhood tussle, but that is the issue, you see. We were children, how I was supposed to know what 'being an Armenian’ meant…

“The departure of the Armenians took Diyarbakır’s soul away,” from Diyarbakır’s Armenians Speak, an oral history prepared by Ferda Balancar and published by the Hrant Dink Foundation (via armeniangenocidehistory)

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Until we got settled in Diyarbakır, the first thing I would hear whenever I got in a fight used to be, “You’re a giaour, you are a filthy man.” Because these are all such small places, everyone knows everything about each other; they know all seven lines of any family, as they saying goes. This, despite the fact that you have become a Muslim, you have lost your language, your religion…We used to speak Kurdish in the household; we couldn’t speak Armenian. Nevertheless, whenever someone wanted to humiliate us they would say, “They are Armenians, after all, their bones are sinful.”…I used to hear that a lot, “Their bones are sinful, their flesh is sinful.”

“Your bones are sinful even if you convert to Islam,” from Diyarbakır’s Armenians Speak, an oral history prepared by Ferda Balancar and published by the Hrant Dink Foundation (via armeniangenocidehistory)

My father's family came from Diyarbakir

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Look at this carpet! (x) It has been sold, however (x)

HANDMADE PERSIAN SILK CARPET (3 years of work) View of Armenian Vank cathedral in Isfahan Manufacturing : knotted by hand Size : 150 x 100 cm Origin : Iran - Qom Knot density : over 1000,000 per square metre Pile : Silk — at Isfahan Gallery.

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Lovely and just gorgeous

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@HalaJaber: “Freedom….and a long good drag with love from a fully liberated #Manbij. #Isis fully driven out.”

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Wow

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Home away from home until October

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Fedayi fighters and 1800s-early 1900s fashion in Anatolia, Eastern Turkey, Western Armenia

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Anatolian, Eastern Turkey, Western Armenian families.  I would like to know what the hand gestures of the lady with her children mean.

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Fedayi Armenian fighters 1800s

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About 1940 picture of Atlas holding up the world in front of the Rockefeller Building in NY

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Boyajian photos - Bishop Papken Varjabedian collection.  Given to my mother.

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Oriental rug makers from Fresno, California.  The Attarians with my grandparents, the Guleserians.  Late 1950s or early 1960s.

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Las Vegas, 1960s.  My dad and friend in the first picture, my dad and mom in the second. The Pioneer Club opened in 1942 and is now a gift shop. The Venetian now stands where the Sands once stood.