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Bandook Gali – Gun Lane

Weekend Stories by Trishikh

Fourteen-year-old Abadan finds a one-hundred-year-old Mauser Construktion 96 semi-automatic broom-handle pistol encased in its legendary walnut holster cum detachable shoulder-butt, wrapped in a disintegrating rag with the faded tag – Messrs Rodda & Company, buried under a rock in the garden inside the Zoroastrian fire temple of Anjuman Atash Adran.

The year was 2014, and the boy was helping his hundred-and-six-year-old grandfather Adarban remove weeds from the small garden of this Parsi temple located on Kolkata’s Metcalfe Street colloquially referred to as Bandook Gali meaning the Gun Lane.

Adarban was the caretaker of this temple of one of the oldest continuously practised religions of the world founded in the 6th century BC, based on the spiritual teachings of the Iranian prophet Zoroaster. This Temple was built in 1912 by Ervad Dhunjeebhoy Byramjee Mehta, four years before Adarban’s birth in the caretaker’s quarter where his parents lived, as his father just…

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USS Barb – SS-220

Pacific Paratrooper

Uss Barb, SS-220, May 1945

This post is in response to a suggestion I received from Pat at e-Quips.

In the closing months of World War II, heavy losses and depleted fuel stocks kept many of Japan’s remaining combat aircraft grounded and warships in port, awaiting an anticipated amphibious invasion. Starting in July 1945, Allied battleships embarked on a series of naval bombardments of coastal cities in Japan in an effort to draw these forces out to battle — with little success.

However, a week before the battleships began lobbing their massive shells, a legendary U.S. submarine toting a rocket launcher began its own campaign of coastal terror that foretold the future of naval warfare — and also engaged in the only Allied ground-combat operation on Japanese home-island soil.

Submarines still made use of deck guns during World War II, most of them ranging between three and five inches in caliber. These…

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La scenă deschisă

In the center of Spain, in the region of Castilla la Mancha, on the road to Don Quixote, stop for a day at Almagro.

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Almagro, 2017

În centrul Spaniei, în regiunea Castilla la Mancha, pe drumul lui don Quijote, oprește-te pentru o zi la Almagro.

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Da, știu, după aceea îți va fi greu să pleci.

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L-am vizitat într-o după-amiază însorită de martie, chiar de echinocțiul de primăvară.

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În centru ajungi după ce în prealabil traversezi câteva piețe mici, intime, contrastante, cu un design medieval ultracontemporan.

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Si, iată, centrul îti apare deodată în față, ca o scenă enormă, acaparatoare și fascinantă.

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Nici nu știi în ce direcție să privești, ai impresia că în spatele coloanelor se ascunde ceva. Te întrebi cine ți-ar putea desluși misterul acestui oraș.

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Unul dintre secrete este teatrul. Aici are loc un festival prestigios, care numără până acum 41 de ediții.

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Pe măsură ce soarele cobora spre apus, treptat, se aprindeau felinarele.

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Am poposit la un hotel care a fost o reședință istorică din lanțul Paradores, simplu, dar renovat în stil…

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 « l’Amour des Marchandises » la forêt éviscérée par les Mineurs d’Or qui prive la vie des peuples autochtones de leur noyau essentiel ! – “The Love of Goods” the forest eviscerated by the Gold Miners which deprives the life of the indigenous peoples of their essential core! | Barbara Crane Navarro

Source: « l’Amour des Marchandises » la forêt éviscérée par les Mineurs d’Or qui prive la vie des peuples autochtones de leur noyau essentiel ! | Barbara Crane Navarro

10 Most Wonderful Natural Phenomena In The Sky — The Strong Traveller

We long to witness everything the world has in store for us but never look up to the sky. The Sky has its own beauty that is highlighted by enthralling natural phenomena which one must definitely witness. The post 10 Most Wonderful Natural Phenomena In The Sky appeared first on The Strong Traveller.

10 Most Wonderful Natural Phenomena In The Sky — The Strong Traveller

Blessed place — Surf Kawela Hawaii

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Blessed place — Surf Kawela Hawaii