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Agra Fort-3.jpg

Agra Fort-3.jpg

Bird at Agra Fort.jpg

Bird at Agra Fort.jpg

Interior shot of one of the many small sections of the fort. I am not certain this particular part has a name, but it was in the upper most section looking down onto the central audience and ...

Interior shot of one of the many small sections of the fort....

Agra Fort-2.jpg

Agra Fort-2.jpg

ntableman's photo

ntableman's photo

Daf Yomi

Talmud Tidbit: What is a Koy?

A randomish note in tractate Nazir 34a: the koy. An animal that is speculated to be one of the following: off spring of a he-goat and a hind a distinct species, not a hybrid unknown if it is a domesticated animal (בהמה) or a wild animal (חיה). it is indeed kosher The implication in this Gemara revolves around a [...]

aquaDRAMA update

I have not posted on aquaDRAMA in a long time! Here are some of the things that have changes over the last couple months: Some kind of strange slime as growing on the back of the tank, and when I tried to remove it there was a serious decline in oxygen levels in the tank. This [...]

War by Other Means — Building Complete and Balanced Capabilities for Counterinsurgency

I have an RSS feed to my desktop of newly published Rand reports. I tend to read the summaries instead of the long studies, as even a student of the world doesn’t need to know the detail invovled in 700 pages treatises on a particular subject.

The report cited in the title, War by [...]