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Dear Iran01, The more I hear Talish music the more I like it! There is another webpage to download it: http://talishica.org/Music/Music-home.htm When you have time can you please kindly post here a few links to pages with Persial folk music mp3 downlads? Thank you in advance!

Anahid Takouhi jan, Your good wishes are very nice, but I actually posted that photograph of a wedding with an army of Hummer jeeps not as a normal “wedding photo”, but as a kind of social caricature… In Armenia 50% of the people are poor, and these Hummers are $200.000 each…

Wedding in yerevan... (photo taken today)

Sunset on Aragac...

The most super-mega-fantastic view to Ararat I have seen is from Dzorakhpyur, which is a village at Yerevan. From there you can see both Ararat and Aragac in their ideal form… Also the other elements of the landscape are excellent from there.

Now I mostly read literature on how to protect servers from hacker attacks… plus a book on the Ottoman empire. So a pretty cool combination…

I have been there for many times, and, yes, it is one of the best spots in Yerevan. It is next to Cascade… so it is at the very center of the town without being in smog due to its rather higher location. Plus the fantastic view on Ararat and on Yerevan…. But they are very expensive… $1500+ per square meter I guess…

Well, in Simon Vracian’s book we read that the flag was accepted by the parliament after some debates, and that that selection of colors (as well as their order) was NOT a result of a very detailed consideration there. At that moment they had too many other things to do… In any case, or flag looks OK, although I personally would prefer a graphical solution including a CROSS… so that even the most stupid Europeans or Americans at once figure out that it is the flag of a Christian nation.

He means the TOWN Vladimir in central Russia.

Great work! By the way, for some technical reasons I am unable to see Armenian characters in the page Հայրենասիրություն. The other two pages are fine thou.

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Cool! But I think the version for Isdambul need include a booklet with turkish “answers” to questions about the Armenian Genocide! Then, having all that stuff and holding that booklet in their hands the turkish guys will be fully equipped against attacks of all types….

Probably, because the Arabs “inherited” Armenia as a part of Persian Empire, and so the Arabs used the name of Armenia that was at that time used by Persias…

Also, some of the “pure” Armenian names have Greek versions such as: Tigranes = Tigran, Artaxis = Artashes, etc. (these forms are used for example by Roman authors). This means that the endings “es”, “as” need not mean that the considered name is Greek. And some of the Persian names, too, had such Greek “variations”, such as: Trdates = Trdat…

And here is a rather strange (but helpful) “geometric” difference between փող and խողովակ: The word փող can only mean a pipe that is not very long (say, 1-2 meters or so long at most). Whereas a խողովակ can be of arbitrary length. So if a given situation you can’t figure out which word need be use for the given pipe, just try to envision if or not that pipe can be very long… From this criterion it is automatically clear, that an “oil pipeline” is խողովակ and not փող… Also, the word փող seems to be a little (just a little!) old-fashioned. So if in the given context some new objects are considered (such as computer parts or whatever), then be sure that it is խողովակ...