Word: khans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gilgit, members of khan Haji Rahman Qul's tribe see their culture disappearing even as they themselves are dying. For their very culture is wrapped up with their animals. Providing food, shelter, clothing, and goods for barter, livestock sustains the tribe's all-too-precarious existence. The women of the tribe--who must still cook, sew, and care for their families--have become the barers of the tribe's culture. But to survive, the tribe must have enough land at the right altitude to raise their animals in peace and carry on their nomadic existence...
...Senate, Columbus' triumphant smile as he spies the dim outline of the New World, Washington's hope and anxiety as he crosses the icy Delaware to surprise the Hessians in their Christmas celebrations. "Can you imagine having had thousands of candid and honest pictures of Charlemagne, Kublai Khan or Abraham Lincoln?" asks Yoichi Okamoto, who was official photographer to Lyndon Johnson. Okamoto's excitement is catching. Photojournalism has known many great days since the first news shot 139 years ago, a panoramic view of the destruction caused by the great Hamburg fire of 1842; and the glories...
...occasionally strident anti-American rhetoric, followed suit five days later. That left the field open for a stable of dark horses. The first straw poll, conducted behind the closed doors of the Security Council's chambers, gave the necessary minimum of nine votes to Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, 48, a Harvard-educated Iranian citizen who was the U.N.'s High Commissioner for Refugees from 1965 to 1977. But there was one hitch: his detractors included Soviet Ambassador Oleg Troyanovsky, who, because he represents one of the council's five permanent members, was entitled to veto any candidate...
...other western universities, McMaster and McGill, have already provided assistance in establishing a nursing school for the Aga Khan facility...
...Khan gave $11.5 million to Harvard and MIT to establish a joint program for the study and preservation of Islamic architecture...