|
Art; Timur the Magnificent; At Sackler, the Brutal, Splendid Art of the Conqueror
From:
The Washington Post
| Date:
April 16, 1989| Author:
Paul Richard
| Copyright 1989 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information
|
ere the teachers of the West a bit less Eurocentric, his fame would
be immortal. Yet we hardly know his name.
His enemies despised him as an illiterate barbarian, as
Tamerlane (Timur-i-lang, "Timur the Lame"), a crude and lowborn
cripple. Yet he met them one by one-the Mongols of the Golden Horde,
the Indian maharajahs, the caliphs of Damascus, the sultan of the
Turks-and defeated them in battle.
"Timur and the Princely Vision," which goes on view today at the
Arthur M. Sackler ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research
|
The Sack of Damascus.(career of the warlord Timur the Lame)(Brief Article)
History Today
; March 24th, 1401 THE CENTRAL CHARACTER of Christopher Marlowe's bloodthirsty and hugely popular drama Tamburlaine the Great, in which the fall of Damascus is a major episode, was the savage Turkic warlord the Persians called Timur Lenk (Timur the Lame), which in English became Tamburlaine or
|
|
Dynamics of Land Use Pattern with Special Reference to Fallow Lands - An Empirical Investigation in Tamil Nadu
Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics
; I INTRODUCTION Land and water are the crucial natural resources for any development activity. Consequently, access to land and control over its uses were the prime sources of conflict within and between communities throughout human history. Like any other resource land has two dimensions, viz.,
|
 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
|
Land O'Lakes plans feed mill venture with Harvest States; Joint agreement involves 16 sites and is intended to improve efficiency.(BUSINESS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; Land O'Lakes and Harvest States cooperatives plan to form a joint venture with 16 feed mills in six Midwestern states. The alliance, announced Wednesday at Land O'Lakes' annual meeting in Minneapolis, comes as Falcon Heights-based Harvest States tries to merge with Cenex, an Inver Grove
|
 "The Economist (US)")
|
Invasion of the land-grabbers; Cambodia.(Land-grabs in Cambodia)
The Economist (US)
; This land was our land Small farmers lose their livelihoods to corrupt officials ONE day in December, 70-year-old Doung Moeurn and her neighbours arrived to work on their rice paddies to find soldiers putting up a barbed-wire fence around them. As in China, across Cambodia growing numbers of small
|
|
The Land Trust Solution
Dollars & Sense
; Land trusts ease control of U.S. farmland away from developers. It was back in the early 1970s that Steven and Gloria Decater of Covelo, Calif., first started farming an unused plot of land belonging to a neighbor. Over many years, they turned the fallow plot into fertile farmland that yielded a
|
