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  • The entrance to a sacred area within the complex at Al-Hijir.  The archeological site of Al-Hijr (Madain Saleh) is the first UNESCO World Heritage Site in  Saudi Arabia.  It is a major center of the Nabataen civilization.  It is the largest Nabataen site south of Petra in Jordan.  It bears testimony to teh Nabataen civiliztkion between the 2nd and 3rd centuries BC and pre-Islamic period in the 1st century AD.
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  • Staircase in the U.S. Custom House, Bowling Green, Manhattan, NY
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  • A visitor to the great pyramid at Giza in Egypt
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright designed Guggenhiem Museum, NYC.
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  • Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill,  skylight in centre family dwelling, Micajah Burnett, Architect, Harrodsburg, KY
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  • St. Lucia. Polaroid Spectra
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  • Staircase in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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  • Hotel Balconies, San Antonio, Texas.
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  • Ancient Anasazi ruins at Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, USA
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  • This Mission church is one of the oldest churches in America dedicated to San Francisco de Asis. Outstanding example of adobe mission architecture.  Constructed between 1813 & 1815.  Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico
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  • One of Central Asia's largest domed mosques honors Hodja Akmed Yasavi, the 12th century Sufi mystic whose poetry and writings had tremendous impact throughout that part of the world.  It was commissioned in 1390 by tamerlane, the Turkic conqueror, to honor Yasavi and serve as his mausoleum.  The mosque was built in eight independent sections, which has helped it survive numerous earthquakes.  the building measures 47.5  x 65.6 meters (152 x 215).  Its walls are 2 meters (6.5 feet) thick  and the central hall walls are 3 meters (10 feet) thick.  The dome is 37.5 meters (123 feet) high and 18.2 meters (60 feet) in diameter.  These elegant niche-like decorations just below the mausoleum's dome are known as Muqarnas.  They are an Islamic invention that reached a zenith aroung the 13th century.  the delicate and soaring designs evoke Yasavi's transcendent and complex poetry as well as the mystical ideas of Sufism.   It is located in Turkestan in southern Kazakhstan.
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  • One of Central Asia's largest domed mosques honors Hodja Akmed Yasavi, the 12th century Sufi mystic whose poetry and writings had tremendous impact throughout that part of the world.  It was commissioned in 1390 by tamerlane, the Turkic conqueror, to honor Yasavi and serve as his mausoleum.  The mosque was built in eight independent sections, which has helped it survive numerous earthquakes.  the building measures 47.5  x 65.6 meters (152 x 215).  Its walls are 2 meters (6.5 feet) thick  and the central hall walls are 3 meters (10 feet) thick.  The dome is 37.5 meters (123 feet) high and 18.2 meters (60 feet) in diameter.  The dome is covered in glazed, patterned turquoise tiles.  It is located in Turkestan in southern Kazakhstan.
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  • Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Florida
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  • Curing CT Shade, Windsor, CT
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  • Artifacts on tomb interior at Deir El-Medina "Thebes" being lit by use of mirrors to reflect the sunlight deep into the tomb.  Luxor, Egypt
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  • Shakbak-Ata Zoroastrian Temple, Kazakhstan
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  • Library, South Kent, CT, Couturier
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  • Interior of tomb for Mamluk rulers in Cairo, Egypt
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  • Citadel, Cairo Egypt
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  • Qasr al-Masmak also know as Masmak Fort built in 1865 by King Abdullah III bin Faisal al-Saud.  1902 the fort was besieged by Emir Abdul Aziz bin Saud and taken back from al-Rashid.  Today is serves as a place where the modern state of Saudi Arabia emerged. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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  • Akhmed Yasavi bathhouse, Shymkent, Kazakhstan
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  • Spirit yurts, like this one at Koshkurt-Ata, take on a wide range of forms and incorporate poetry, sculpture and painting to illuminate the lives of those who have passed on.  These "cities of the ancestors" are in large measure the architectural heritage of the Kazakh nomads.  A story recorded by the historian Herodotus perhaps best illustrates their power and meaning to the Kazkahs, in 513 B.C., Darius I, king of Persia, attacked the Scythians in what is now Kazakhstan.  They continued to pull back, setting the Steppes afire as they went.  Frustrated, Darius sent a messengter to the Scythians to ask why they would not stand and fight.  Idanthyrsus, their ruler, responded with this threat: "I have never fled from a man in fear in days past or now...we have neither cities nor sown land for which we might fear...but if you needs must come to a fight with us quickly, there are our father's graves.  Find them and try to ruin them, and you will discover whether we will fight you or not."
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  • At Mada'in Saleh, wealthy Nabataens were buried in splendor in tombs carved in rock and long since robbed of valuables. The archeological site of Al-Hijr (Madain Saleh) is the first UNESCO World Heritage Site in Saudi Arabia.  It was a major center of the Nabataen civilization.  It is the largest Nabataen site south of Petra in Jordan.  It bears testimony to the Nabataen civilization between the 2nd and 3rd centuries BC and pre-Islamic period in the 1st century AD.
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  • Kazakh tombs are often built in the shope of a Yurt in an open style-essentially "spirit yurts," near this in Katon-Karagai, there was a poem written by the children of Kakitai Kabodol Uly, Born October 5, 1931, passed on, August 3, 1997:  "Dearest  father, with young mind and blooming soul cruel life is singing about you its sad song.  Your children are full of thoughts about you, and miss you.  And there is no way that smiles can be returned.  What a pity that destiny is showing  its black side.  There is nobody whom I can complain to about it.  You, my father, are protecting with your spirit us, your children, the continuatioon of your life."
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  • World Trade Center view from Battery Park, NY, NY
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  • Bronze sculpture by Fritz Koenig, The Sphere, a symbol of peace, in the middle of Austin J. Tobin plaza, between the World Trade Center Twin Towers, New York, NY.  The artwork was meant to symbolize world peace through world trade, and was placed at the center of a ring of fountains and other decorative touches designed by trade center architect Minoruy Yamasaki to mimic the Grand Mosque of Mecca, Masjid al-Haram, in which The Sphere stood at the place of the Kaaba.
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  • The National School of Visual Arts is distinguished by post-modern buildings designed by internationally acclaimed architect Ricardo Porro.  It is built on grounds where Che and Fidel played golf in 1960. Havana, Cuba
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  • Pagodas of the Hosso Buddhist Yakushiji Temple point to the sun rising over Nara, the city that became Japan's first permanent capital in A.D. 710. The three-storied pagodas were built with mokoshi, inter-story pent roofs.
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  • The largest Torii gate in Japan at the Heian-Jingu Shrine, Kyoto, Japan
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  • Trinity Church & the South Tower of the World Trade Center, NY NY
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  • Crude distillation unit #2, Palau Ayer Chawan Refinery, Jurong Island, Singapore
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  • Architect E. Fay Jones designed Thorncrown Chapel, a wooden structure forty-eight feet high with 6,000 square feet of glass.  Completed July 10, 1980, Eureka Springs, Arkansas
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  • Urban glass building
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  • Interior Kiva spruce tree house Mesa Verde CO
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  • Shadow Entry
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  • Sanwa Bank
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