Persia News

Betty Cassaday of Cedar Rapids strokes the orange tabby she fell in love with during a cat adoption day at the temporary site of the Cedar Rapids Animal Shelter on Saturday.

They say that to understand the present you need to understand the past. This seems likely to be true, but when it comes to understanding human affairs in their historical and sociological detail I have to ...

The United States is pursuing a national-security strategy that assumes U.S. opponents in the Middle East can be decisively broken and defeated through financial, military and political isolation, eventually ...

Date : Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:44:23 +0500 TO NOAH'S MOUNTAIN, WITH THE CATS THAT LEAPT OFF THE ARK Mail on Sunday June 15, 2008 Sunday London Diana Preston finds both the landscapes and the inhabitants around ...

Omaha, NE-The Scoular Company announced June 12 its acquisition of the assets of Hancock Elevator, Inc .

This essay was first published at the Scandinavian blog Snaphanen , but since some of my readers may not have seen it I republish it here.

In the June 12 issue of the New York Review of Books, there's an interesting review by Jasper Griffin of "Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend" by Richard Stoneman.

Last week's end to the presidential primary season would have been a lot more welcome if it wasn't the precursor to an even more determined orchestration of divisiveness in this country.

Sending the MSM down the river... Faster, Please! As you know, I'm a big fan of "Spengler," the elegant and cultured columnist for "Asia Times." He's just come out with a new think piece on Iran, which comes to ...

If that's not impressive enough, the massive roof deck provides unobstructed views of the Empire State Building, the Met Life building, and Jersey.

I love Indian food. It's aromatic and exotic, intriguingly complex. It can be hot enough to bring tears to your eyes and sweat on the brow or sweet, mild and creamy enough to soothe just like your favorite ... via Seacoast Online

People in the older times did not use any form of currency to purchase the things they needed. via BellaOnline

Join Peace Iowa and the Persian Student Association for Iranians and Iowans Cultivating Peace Cultural Understanding Fair from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday at the Iowa City Public Library, meeting room A. Challenge your ... via Iowa City Press-Citizen

It is one thing for Google Earth to depict the map of the world as is and another thing to manipulate it. via Global Politician

The New Yorker A very enjoyable six-page review of Herodotus. As it is almost impossible to read anything on ancient Egypt without stumbling into Herodotus I feel moderately justified in including this article ... via Egyptology News

“Some of the very same foods the Greeks claim to be theirs, the Persians claim are theirs”

Over several thousand years, Persia - now Iran - has developed a rich cuisine. It is aromatic, complex and distinct from the foods of neighboring Arabic and Mediterranean cultures, despite similarities of ... via News-Register

“Persian food is not spicy hot”

From Persia, a lesson in subtle flavors BY JOHNATHAN L. WRIGHT * jwright@rgj.com * April 22, 2008 I love culinary heat. via Reno Gazette-Journal

The Hellenic love of liberty, like a beacon of bright light, shines through the millennial history of Hellenism, more intensely than the proverbial and passionate love of wisdom, that is known as Hellenic ... via Hellenic News of America

“Want to do away with right to work? Want to give public-employee unions more pay and benefits? Then vote for Democrats for the Legislature. If not, vote for Republicans.”

By standing up to some of the labor unions, Gov. Chet Culver may have reassured his 2010 re-election - and beyond. via Des Moines Register

“The battle lines drawn during the Persian Wars more than twenty-three centuries ago are still, in the selfsame corner of the world, very much where they were then.”

Soldiers clash in a battle during the First Crusade, as depicted in a 15th-century French manuscript illumination. via New York Sun