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...design input from Franco, the Valley of the Fallen was built at least in part through the forced labor of political prisoners. Soldiers from both sides of Spain's Civil War - Franco's Nationalists and the defeated Republicans - are interred there, but only Francoists treat the site as a shrine. Last November, the Catalan Green party (icv) suggested that the basilica be transformed into a "center for interpretation" to inform visitors about the repression and suffering inflicted by Franco's regime. "It's not normal for a democratic society to have failed to resolve this issue," says icv vice president...
...Gond tribe and wary of city hospitals, the Bangs asked them what a Gond hospital might look like. The result is what Abhay named Shodhagram (Research Village), a medical center outside Gadchiroli that resembles a village, with separate huts housing the lab, surgery, pharmacy, wards, library and even a shrine to the Gond goddess Danteshwari...
...unequipped. It was just, well, bland. “We didn’t want [our rooms] to be sterile,” Ching says. And COOP mirrors and Abbey Road definitely wouldn’t fly. They immediately set to work transforming their suite into a dorm-sized shrine to travel, to friendship, and to sex. Ching claims to have “a queer eye” for style; both are deeply interested in aesthetics. He calls their room “warm” and “sexy,” while she describes their style...
...Friedman, had but one thing to say from her sons' hospital room: "Those settlers should be butchered." For their part, the Jews of Hebron this time were careful not to give public praise. But they have a monument that to the Arabs speaks louder than words: a shrine outside Hebron erected by the Jews to honor Baruch Goldstein, perpetrator of the 1994 mosque massacre...
...they found open ground, families began offering special naful prayers, while others knelt on the roadside and began reciting the Quran. Loudspeakers in the mosques urged the faithful to seek forgiveness. "I thought doomsday had fallen," said Abdur Rashid Hajjam, as he came out of prayers at a Sufi shrine. "Pray for our brethren who died today and thank Allah for we are safe," said the imam at Illahi Bagh mosque on the outskirts of Srinagar, which lies in Indian-ruled Kashmir. "Whatever the scientists say, our Prophet said that when this earth is replete with sin, this would happen...