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...said over the weekend. “Again and again, girih tiles provide logical explanations for complicated designs.” Prominent buildings throughout the Islamic world feature such configurations, ranging from mosques in Isfahan, Iran, and Bursa, Turkey to shrines in Herat, Afghanistan and Agra, India. Lu said he detected the decagonal ornamentation on a 16th century Islamic building in Uzbekistan while he was in the region surveying a space center in Turkmenistan. Lu added that he confirmed his observations with the help of the Harvard’s collection of Islamic...
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VIAGRA, OKLA. Although the effect wore off after 24 hours, Agra agreed to take the drug's name in 2003 to get free concert tickets from a radio station...
...just obscure treasures like the mausoleum-lavatory that are under threat. Even the Taj Mahal, India's (and Islam's) most famous building, may be endangered. UNESCO has warned that sulfurous pollution from the city of Agra is eating away at the building's exquisite inlaid marble and that sewage water is seeping into the foundations; the organization has also asked for a report to address claims that the 350-year-old tomb is tilting by 19 cm, leading to fears that it might eventually collapse. Meanwhile, India's foremost Hindu site, the southern city of Hampi, has appeared...
...easy holiday in the sun. "For all its faults," says Uttam Dave, CEO of PKF Travel Consultancy, "it's one of the few places in the world that has its own character that is uniquely its own, something that has not been bastardized by globalization." Whatever the horrors of Agra and the frustrations of its millions of visitors, no one has yet complained of missing out on the real India...