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place-name etymology
Posted June 08, 2006 at 10:13 PM by brankin
Two kinds of colonial naming: erasure and appropriation. But when it's always the colonists doing the naming, is one really preferable to the other? The recently created Nunavut (Inuktitut for "our land") is perhaps the only exception in the hemisphere.
Colored regions show names from the same language family (as categorized by the [...]
downtown beirut
Posted August 24, 2006 at 08:33 PM by
Martyr's Square in downtown Beirut on a Friday night. Beirut is the capital of Lebanon and one of the most religiously diverse cities of the Middle East. The city is brimming with restaurants, beach clubs, centers for performing arts, music venues, movie theatres, a casino, and a number of discos, pubs, and bars. From sipping coffee at an open [...]
Bonnes Paques
Posted May 30, 2007 at 03:11 AM by lapetite
It may be hard for Americans to believe, but in France, no one has ever heard of the Easter bunny. Does that mean poor little French children go candy-less on Easter Sunday? On the contrary! In France, Easter chocolate is bestowed by a giant bell.I have to admit, I didn't really believe this story until I saw the big [...]
lahore gawal mandi food street
Posted May 27, 2006 at 07:49 PM by
Food street in Gawal Mandi, Lahore is a centre of Pakistani food. It is localted off the famous Laxmi Chowk of Lahore and it essentially consists of a number of streetside restaurants, juice and milk shops and sweet shops. The street is open to traffic at the day time but as the sun sets, the street is closed for traffic and tables are set on [...]
Phi Phi Island - The Beach
Posted July 15, 2007 at 01:07 AM by hkman
Phi Phi Island has been memorialized in "The Beach", the movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The premise of the movie is that a group of misfits identify a secret, gorgeous beach and turn it into a haven for their lifestyle. Everything goes well until Leonardo leaks the map to the beach - and people start arriving in [...]
