Ustad Shaaiad

The serious humor of dark yesterday, whispers delight, Yes say something...

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Muslims in Mali. 

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A Turkish bride in her wedding dress, 18 May 1914 (Library of Congress)

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Google building quantum computer processor with top university research team

Google is leaping back into the quantum computing business, partnering with scientists at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to build cutting-edge processors. The developers hope to build a revolutionary machine, which has eluded them so far.

The internet giant’s Quantum Artificial Intelligence team, led by director of engineering Hartmut Neven, has teamed up with researchers from the UCSB Physics Department’s Martinis Group, led by John Martinis. The combined Google and UCSB scientists are launching“a hardware initiative to design and build new quantum information processors based on superconducting electronics,”Neven wrote in a blog post.

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Aha

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An Afghan man who lost nine family members in the conflict following the U.S.-led invasion in 2001 near Jalalabad. (Majeed Babar/Radio Mashaal)

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Silk Route Fashion

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Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Toshkent, O’zbekiston

Christopher Rose, 2013.

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This is Zarina Nizomiddinova. She’s not #Turkish as your tags claim. Nor is she #Greek #Caucasian #Mixed She’s Uzbek.

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OMGGG SHES BEAUTIFUL I LOVE MY CENTRAL ASIAN CREW

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Pamiri girls in Dushanbe. Tajikistan. (x)

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It's not so bad

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“Death to Imperialism, Death to Zionism, Long live the Heroic Masses of Palestine”

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The Qizilbash of Kabul and His Bride

Painted in 1836 in Kabul, Afghanistan by Vigne Thomas Godfrey (1801-1863) with pencil, pen, ink, and watercolour.

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THE SERI INDIANS of Sonora Mexico 

Many cultural changes have taken place in the last few decades. Except for special events, women no longer paint their faces as they once did. Those who saw and recorded Seri face painting marked a dying trait.

Women painted delicate and tasteful designs on their faces. Usually, designs were carried in a straight horizontal line across the upper face and over the bridge of the nose. Elements represented flowers, leaves, and other pretty motifs and it was all done just to be attractive.

Married women used distinctive but heavier patterns that identified them as matrons.

Men also painted on occasion-to go to war, for spiritual protection, or just general attraction. Designs suggested by medicine men could be used by both sexes for spiritual protection.

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Oh wow talk about a trow back

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ANDKHOY, AFGHANISTAN. Turkmen woman weaving a carpet.

Photograph by Roland and Sabrina Michaud (scan). 

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The busy day always starts slow ? Why

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Baghdad 1940 - بغداد

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Siwa girls dressed in their family’s wedding gowns. The Siwa are an Amazigh tribe located in western Egypt.