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| Before and After in Aleppo | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 17 2016, 06:15 PM (178 Views) | |
| George K | Jul 17 2016, 06:15 PM Post #1 |
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Finally
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https://www.facebook.com/DavidAvocadoWolfe/videos/10153625047761512
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Red Rice | Jul 17 2016, 06:36 PM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Wow. Just awful. But two things: 1) As bad as the physical damage is, what happened to the people has been far worse. 2) Even in the "before" photos, Aleppo looks sketchy. In the picture with the pool and palm trees, the surrounding buildings look like they've already been bombed. |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| bachophile | Jul 17 2016, 07:33 PM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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aleppo is known in the jewish world as the home of aleppo codex, the oldest manuscript of the torah... for a fascinating account, for those that like old manuscripts....
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| "I don't know much about classical music. For years I thought the Goldberg Variations were something Mr. and Mrs. Goldberg did on their wedding night." Woody Allen | |
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| brenda | Jul 17 2016, 09:34 PM Post #4 |
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And the Aleppo pepper. Don't forget the pepper. |
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“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” ~A.A. Milne | |
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| Mikhailoh | Jul 18 2016, 03:59 AM Post #5 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Once you have had it you never will. It becomes a staple. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| brenda | Jul 18 2016, 06:20 AM Post #6 |
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And who got you started on that stuff?
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“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” ~A.A. Milne | |
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| Mikhailoh | Jul 18 2016, 06:29 AM Post #7 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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A hooker with a heart of gold. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| QuantumIvory | Jul 18 2016, 06:31 AM Post #8 |
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Senior Carp
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That sounds fascinating. Downloaded. |
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"I regard consciousness as fundamental. We cannot get behind consciousness." -Max Planck | |
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| brenda | Jul 18 2016, 06:31 AM Post #9 |
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“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” ~A.A. Milne | |
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| taiwan_girl | Jul 18 2016, 06:26 PM Post #10 |
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Fulla-Carp
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Very sad. And for what reason????
Edited by taiwan_girl, Jul 18 2016, 06:26 PM.
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| brenda | Jul 18 2016, 07:33 PM Post #11 |
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Indeed, TG. I feel terrible for the folks who consider this their homeland. Sites that represent centuries of history have been destroyed. |
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And for what reason????

11:21 AM Jul 11