Entries from August 2008

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Gigantic Iranian Hookahs

Check these realy big Iranian hookahs out on the video at 8:04
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008

“The Thief of Bagdad”

You Tube downloads of the film which can be played as a list
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
 Find the whole movie on YouTube
the first link is a smaller screen   and the second link much better and larger
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CjjoDiMdI_E 
or
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Saturday, August 9th, 2008

1824 First-Hand Hookah in Calcutta,India

 (Permission granted by author) :
I was reading a book this week about various first hand personnal stories and views on Calcutta,India from the time it was first built by a private British citizen 200 plus years ago until the squallor of today.
One short chapter was written by Fanny Parkes in 1824 and she has a […]