Vietnam Redo: Post-War Flowers, Fruit and Rice
Vietnam today is, of course, a different place than in the previous century. Changes have been significant in government,...
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edgardavidboshart
- Nov 2, 2018
- 5 min
Vietnam Redo (part 4): War Paint
At one time, in the last century, Americans dabbed charcoal-tinted war paint on their faces and attempted to subdue a combined imperial...
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edgardavidboshart
- Oct 26, 2018
- 2 min
Vietnam Redo (part 3): Long and Tall
I have always wanted to ask a puppet, in private, what it is like to be enslaved and forced to do its master’s bidding, subject to being...
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edgardavidboshart
- Oct 24, 2018
- 3 min
Vietnam Redo (part 2): Peace and Mayhem
Hanoi (Ha Noi, “river’s inner”) is a large sprawling beehive(s) of activity, spotted with large construction projects and relentless...
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edgardavidboshart
- Oct 18, 2018
- 4 min
Vietnam Redo; 2018 (Intro)
I visited North Vietnam the first time roughly 10 years ago. The country then had already moved on from the previous century of...
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edgardavidboshart
- Oct 12, 2018
- 3 min
Bight of Kennebunk: Travel Destination
“The swallow has set her six young on the rail, and looks seaward.” James Lee’s Wife (1864, pt 3 st.1), Robert Browning Before Autumn...
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edgardavidboshart
- Aug 31, 2018
- 1 min
Off to Southeast Asia (Again)
Tomorrow I leave for another visit to Vietnam and Cambodia for a couple of weeks. It has been 10 years since I was in these two...
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edgardavidboshart
- Jun 1, 2018
- 6 min
Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue and Discovered Cuba Too (but not North America)
Cristobal Colon (Christopher Columbus) never set foot or planted the flag for the Crown of Castille on North America. However, he found...
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edgardavidboshart
- Mar 9, 2018
- 4 min
Between Earth and the Universe: Isfahan's Royal Mosque
It's early morning, late September. I stride across Meidan-e Shah Square (the massive Royal Square) in old town Esfahan (or Isfahan),...
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edgardavidboshart
- Mar 2, 2018
- 3 min
Half of the World: Isfahan
In the wilderness about 200 miles south of Tehran is a place called “Half of the World.” Ishfahan, twice the capital of Persia, was the...
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edgardavidboshart
- Feb 23, 2018
- 1 min
Shiraz (II); House of Mirrors, Reflections on the Self
Shiraz, Iran is a poet's (Hafiz's) oasis, where the art of Islam has prominence
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edgardavidboshart
- Feb 9, 2018
- 5 min
Palaces of Persepolis - Theater of Conquerors
I arrived at the ruins of Persepolis, near Shiraz, with great anticipation. The skies were clear and the sun burned hot even in...
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edgardavidboshart
- Feb 5, 2018
- 6 min
Great Monarchs of Persia - Events of Biblical Proportion
Tomb of Cyrus the Great (all photos are my own) “O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus...
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edgardavidboshart
- Jan 29, 2018
- 3 min
Windcatchers
The historical vibrations of Persia really begin to hit home in the central desert towns of Iran, especially in the large city of Yazd —...
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edgardavidboshart
- Jan 19, 2018
- 5 min
First Town on Earth: Yazd, Iran
One of the oldest towns in the world displays some of the finest Persian architecture in central Asia
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edgardavidboshart
- Jan 12, 2018
- 3 min
Eternal Flame - Tower of Death
Modern Iran is certainly a paragon of Islam but the country’s culture also has deep roots in the ancient mostly unrecorded Zoroastrian...
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edgardavidboshart
- Jan 5, 2018
- 5 min
Persian Fire from Heaven: Zarathustra
Do human beings (living things) have real “free will”? The philosophical debate over this question probably will continue eternally even...
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