The deadly drama playing out in the country since last Friday, leaving more than 100 protesters dead, shows three things. Tehran is increasingly in desperate economic straits, in part because of intense U.S. sanctions; Iranian popular discontent with the regime’s economic mismanagement seems to have reached a breaking point; and the regime is more frightened of popular unrest than at ... Read More »
An araki girl has starting a new business of her van, She is running a mobile bookstore business. Books change our lives, expand our horizons, and make us better persons, but it’s not just the authors we have to thank, but also those who facilitate our access to them and instill in us the joy of reading. Read More »
The Tesla Cybertruck might be from the future, but it’s probably not the future. That’s the immediate reaction from analysts after Tesla CEO Elon Musk rolled out what can only be described as one of the most stunning reveals in recent automotive history on Thursday night.Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed the highly anticipated truck on Thursday night in Los Angeles, ... Read More »
Alberobello, Italy It’s almost impossible not to find a picture-perfect street in Alberobello, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in its entirety. The small town in Italy’s heel – Puglia – is famous for its unusual trulli homes, built from white-washed local limestone, with conical roofs. Read More »
Yasmin, Reza Pahlavi’s wife, visited Iranian refugees at a camp in Greece that are in dire straits. She was born in Pars Hospital in Tehran, Iran, on July 26, 1968. She attended the private Tehran Community School in Tehran until the rising tensions during the Iranian Revolution in the late 1970s forced her family to leave Iran permanently. Read More »
The Mercedes-Benz Sprinter chassis’s turbo-diesel engine gives the van 188 horsepower. There’s storage space throughout the interior, including trunk storage, a front overhead cabinet shelf, and a wardrobe. Winnebago is a longstanding motorhome maker that has been spearheading VanLife since before it became a trend on Instagram. Their products range from trailers to vans, and the Boldt 70KL falls under ... Read More »
The only horse long jump event took place in the 1900 Olympics in Paris. Most of the horses could reach at least 14 feet, and the winning jump was 20 feet. That’s still 9 feet and 4 inches less than the world record for a human long jump, however. Read More »
The timing of the announcement suggested an urgent scramble to fill a budget gap caused partly by severe American sanctions. Angry protests over the price increases soon followed. Read More »
In an interview in 2007, when asked about Kiosk’s reasons for not marrying, he said society could not determine for him what to do in life. Read More »
White light is a mixture of all colours, including those that the human eye can’t see. When we say something has colour, what we actually mean is that light of a particular range of wavelengths is reflected more strongly than the light of other wavelengths. Read More »