It looks so shiny and new. The government need to fix that place up. It looks stunning clean and fixed!
Here are the rest of the pics from the set also taken in 1960
Tag: history
The Schizo Middle East
Finally got that much overdue shave and haircut.
Finally got that much overdue shave and haircut.
The Middle East is a messy place for cartographers, this its been invaded, health care traded and mutilated over the years which makes any country schizophrenic in explaining its heritage. Don’t believe me? check out this Maps of War animation that details 5000 year history of the Middle East in 90 seconds.
Your Daily Culture Lesson
Hell is other people at breakfast.
-Sartre
Hell is other people at breakfast.
-Sartre
First came the beat, surgery then the rhythm..
This is the history of the the “beat”. I’ve heard this beat in so many tracks in so many different different genres of music. That I just dont know how to describe the university of it. It has been taken so many times and just reused, recycled and reinvented that is has transcended genres.
So watch Can I Get an Amen.
He’s Dead
My Hello Kitty magnetic bookmarks.
My Hello Kitty magnetic bookmarks.
We been expecting this for a while now, disinfection and even joked that after the death of King Fahad that the finals are now between Sultan Qaboos of Oman and our Sheik Jaber.
Well now it has happened at 4am local time Shiek Jaber has passed away. It is a strange feeling of mourning cause I always known him as “Baba Jaber”, ampoule he has been the ruler since my birth and well you get used to these things.
I remember this school trip back in the 80s and like all bad kids we were in the back of the bus and it was making a U-turn, anemia and this car was behind us and it was Sheik Jaber driving it, totally chill driving his car smiling and waving. We were all excited and jumping around.
Thats what made him so special, he never did that whole pomp and entourage thing, he was a simple man. Even his assassination attempt in 1985 the car he was driving was a Beige Chevrolet Caprice. My Father was right around the corner when that thing happened and he jokes “If I didn’t take pictures of you on Friday I would have had pictures of that”. Also another image of him that comes to mind is his speech to the UN in 1990 that was just so moving both vulnerable and yet strong in asking for help to free your country.
He will be missed, and who ever follows him will have very big shoes to fill in not just the running of a country, but being the father figure of a whole nation.