Days 359 - 370 Turkey
[map=528414 lat=39.126250150049145 lon=34.88943043749999 zoom=5] Day 359 29/8/2014 Göreme - Konya I woke early, unable to sleep well in this heat without air conditioning, to watch sunrise out of the hotel window. At least the rooms in Turkey have a bit of space, enough for some exercise. First we s ...
Whoo, and we got history done too! Which means I win! Yay!
Here's The Gruesome Way A Doctor First Proved The Heart Pumps Blood Chief rabbi says French society has turned indifferent to anti-Semitism ISIS targets evolution in Iraqi schools Syrian Opposition Blasts Reports It Signed a Truce With ISIS Turkey considers buffer zone with Syria and Iraq to contain ...
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twelve families arrived in august 1891 from the port towns of new england, drawn by reports of a flourishing inland whaling industry at work in lake fair. the families (goshe, porter, rine, cleaver; mayland, coyle, jones, finch; cotton, murray, whistler, and evans) arrived after a rail journey from ...
Someone’s Already Fighting ISIS: The Syrian Arab Army
Since 2011, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has waged a relentless war within Syrian territory against what it has said from the very beginning was an invasion of heavily armed, foreign-backed sectarian extremists. In retrospect, the transparently ludicrous nature of articles like the Guardian’s “ Syria’ ...
ECG 100 homework for Thursday, Sept. 18
For Homework for Sept. 18: For Thursday, learn about young adults in Syria. Start by watching this brief video about the extent of the refugee crisis in Syria. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdNkqr4ZVeU&feature=youtu.be Then watch this 50-minute talk by the Catholic Relief Services Country Director ...
'Our Hands and Arms Are Tied'
Foreign Policy 'Our Hands and Arms Are Tied'Foreign PolicyFinally, Turkey, which has championed the Sunni opposition against Assad almost since the beginning of the conflict in Syria, is leery of being part of an alliance that might damage its standing in the Arab world. "There's a worry [in Ankara] ...
House Speaker Boehner Preparing to Help ISIS
Posted in Featured General Arming the Syrian rebels helps no fewer than three states – Qatar, Turkey and the Islamic State. Despite this, House Speaker John Boehner is signaling that he will sign on to a plan that arms Syrian rebels. The main line of distinction between the FSA and ISIS is that ther ...
#ALegendRises – Day 145, 146, 147, 148 – The Bulk
Hey guys! Been quiet for a little bit as I adjusted my focus to adding muscle and bulking up in preparation to compete on the bodybuilding stage next year. Took Saturday off from the gym to give my body a little recovery time and took some days off from blogging to give my mind a break! Check out th ...
Do You Know?
By Crazy Al (Note: Crazy Al is a man that Jonette meet in Cappadocia, Turkey in May 2014. He shared this poem he wrote with a small group on the trip.) Do you understand how large the world is? Do you know what things are inside? People, people, people What they have done, what they will do… […]
Syrian refugees in Turkey need humanitarian aid
There are nearly a million Syrian war victims who have fled to neighboring Turkey. A quarter million of these are living in refugee camps. The conflict in Iraq is also adding to the numbers of refugees arriving in Turkey. Thousands of Iraqi Yazidis, who ...
