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Christy Moore, Viva la XV Brigada

February 4th, 2010 · No Comments

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Tajik Buddhist Monasteries

February 3rd, 2010 · No Comments

Probably the best-known Buddhist monastic archeological site in what is now Tajikistan is at Ajina Tepa, which has been diligently excavated and published by Litvinsky and others.  It’s a fascinating site.

Lesser known, and less impressive in size and sophistication if not in location than Ajina Tepa, is the stupa at Vrang, on the Afghan border in the Pamirs. (It’s at 37° 0′ N 72° 22′ E.)

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Field Guide to Catholic Religious Orders

February 2nd, 2010 · No Comments

There are at least a half-dozen types of Catholic religious orders:  mendicants, monastics, canons regular, clerics regular, clerical religious congregations, and lay religious congregations.

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Soracle Waveset

January 29th, 2010 · No Comments

Pamela Dingle from Ping Identity has an insightful post on the identity implications of the newly-approved Oracle acquisition of Sun.

Both companies have identity management businesses but I doubt that these were key to the acquisition. Regardless; in the identity community, everyone’s been waiting to see what Oracle’s roadmap would look like for their collection of identity management products.

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Operating a machine for putting tops on crates at a co-op orange packing plant

January 28th, 2010 · No Comments



Redlands, Calif. Santa Fe R.R. trip; March 1943, from our Library of Congress.

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