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We do talk about our beautiful side, be it in Literature, Arts and Sciences or Sports forums. Usually the bad acts makes the news whereas so many good things go unnoticed, it's just a fact of life. Having said that we need to be vigilant in exposing the bad apples of our society be it in Homeland or abroad.
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We do talk about our beautiful side, be it in Literature, Arts and Sciences or Sports forums. Usually the bad acts makes the news whereas so many good things go unnoticed, it's just a fact of life. Having said that we need to be vigilant in exposing the bad apples of our society be it in Homeland or abroad.

 

Well, here we can post those stories that don't really fit under Literature, Arts and Sciences or Sports. Agreed? :)

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Apres Nane...

Our beautiful side...

Դե, Ասում են մենք հյուրասեր ազգ ենք...

http://lusamut.net/level4_.php?id=140&id_3=361&id_4=120&cat_=2&id_2=716&s=12

 

 

Not sure if the following is our beautiful side but I sure missed ձնագնդի...And the moon pic is amazing...

 

http://armeniansworld.com/?tag=liliana-hakhverdyan

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OK I found one. :)

 

1,500 BOOKS FOR PRISON INMATES; DRIVE CONTINUES

 

hetq

13:16, February 14, 2012

 

Armenia's Minstry of Justice is continuing its drive to collect books

destined for the country's correctional facilities.

 

Some 1,500 books have already been donated to the drive. Individuals

and organizations have stepped forward to make the drive a success

and get books into the hands of Armenia's incarcerated.

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http://www.panorama.am/en/current_topics/2012/02/15/tumanyans-home/

 

18:04 15/02/2012 » Topic of the day

Ghukasyan brothers to pay USD 145000 for Hovhannes Tumanyan’s Tbilisi house

The purchase agreement of Hovhannes Tumanyan’s Tbilisi house will be signed on February 22. The house will be sold for USD 145000, Chairman of the Writers’ Union of Armenia Levon Ananyan told a Panorama.am reporter from Tbilisi.

 

We will remind that Mayor of Gyumri Vardan Ghukasyan said Ghukasyan brothers are ready to buy with their own financial means the part of the house which belongs to A. Lezhava (120 sq.m.) to donate it to the Armenian community of Tbilisi. He wrote a letter of obligation.

 

A delegation left for Tbilisi on Tuesday which included Chairman of the Writers’ Union of Armenia Levon Ananyan, the cousin of Gyumri Mayor, MP Artyom Ghukasyan, and two representatives of Gyumri Mayor’s Office.

 

Levon Ananyan said that they and Armenian Ambassador to Georgia Hovhannes Manukyan met with A. Lezhava today.

 

“I think there will be no obstacles and the purchase agreement will be signed on February 22,” said he.

 

 

http://hetq.am/eng/news/10542/tumanyan-house-museum-suffers-no-snow-damage.html

Tumanyan House-Museum Suffers no Snow Damage

 

 

http://hetq.am/static/news/b/2012/02/10542.jpg

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EXHIBITION REMOVES VEIL OF HISTORY OBSCURING ANATOLIAN MINORITIES

 

yerkir.am

18:55 - 15.02.2012

 

Some 200 photographs are on display at an exhibit 'Cultural

Diversity in Old Diyarbakır,' which relates the lives and commercial

contributions of Diyarbakır's long-forgotten peoples.

 

The Birzamanlar (Once Upon a Time) Publishing House has launched a

photography exhibition in Istanbul's Tophane neighborhood, providing

a rare glimpse into the history of non-Muslim minorities living in

the southeastern province of Diyarbakır.

 

"Official history teaches us that all these cities were created by

the Turks, and that all the fair deeds of the past were done by them.

 

Those who are not Turks or Muslims are depicted as unfavorable

figures," Osman Köker, the owner of the Birzamanlar Publishing

House, recently told the Hurriyet Daily News. "The cultures, faiths,

traditions and genetics of the peoples of old are also part of the

reality we call the Turkish nation."

 

Around 200 photographs compiled from 40 different sources are on

display at the "Cultural Diversity in Old Diyarbakır" exhibition,

which is being jointly organized by the Birzamanlar Publishing House

and the Anatolian Culture and Global Dialogue, an Istanbul based

nongovernmental organization. The exhibition at Tophane's Tutun Deposu

began Feb. 10 and will continue until March 10.

 

"Eastern Anatolia was much richer at the turn of the 20th century than

it has been in the Republican period, both culturally and materially,"

Köker said, adding that the memories of old were still very much

alive in Anatolia.

 

The exhibition, which relates the lives and commercial contributions of

Diyarbakır's long forgotten peoples, such as the Armenians, Syriacs,

Chaldeans, Anatolian Greeks and the Yezidis, also features explanatory

notes in Turkish, English and Kurdish.

 

"Armenian newspapers were published and theaters [staged plays]

not merely in Diyarbakır, but also in many other [nearby] places

like Elazıg, Erzurum, Van and Erzincan. There were many factories

[making various kinds of produce] ranging from the silk industry

to metal wares. These [factories] did not [produce] solely for the

domestic market but also for exports," Köker said.

 

Turkish people are now striving to learn about the truth instead

of the bragging of official history, he said. "All of us have grown

weary of such vein boasting."

Old shopkeepers and artisans in the region readily confide they had

learned their skills from Armenians and Syriacs, he said.

 

Köker said they had already taken the exhibition to many different

corners of the world, including Armenia and that Anatolian peoples

had always shown great interest in the exhibition at every stop.

 

"Diaspora Armenians know precious little of the things they see in

the exhibitions. They see the concrete [images] of things that seem

to them like the stuff of legends. Moreover, they are nonplussed

that this project has been undertaken by a person of Turkish-Muslim

identity from Turkey," he said.

 

Köker also said they had conducted research in the Orlando Carlo

Calumeo Collection, the

 

Boston-based Project SAVE Armenian Photograph Archive, as well as

the Annuaire Oriental, an annual commercial almanac that has been

published since the mid-19th century, while they were preparing for

the exhibition.

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Ani, book-album on ancient Armenian capital, published

13:20 • 15.02.12

 

A book-album depicting the history and cultural heritage of Ani, the medieval Armenian capital, has been published in Yerevan upon the initiative of the Ministry of Culture.

 

The edition, dedicated to the 1,050th anniversary of declaring Ani a capital, is unique as it provides detailed information on constructions never measured in the past.

 

Speaking at the presentation of the book, Samvel Karapetyan, the head of the foundation Studying Cultural Monuments, thoroughly explained the initiative.

 

He said that the most elaborate studies were conducted by Toros Torosyan, who had introduced three constructions that had never been measured before.

 

"We have also portrayed all the semi-ruined churches, explaining how they might look now if they had been renovated. The book also has a supplementary sheet, which features the city's map," he said.

 

The book-album comprises several sections, each featuring different architectural monuments (churches, cross-stones etc.).

 

Several experts had joined Karapetyan to explore the sites of the historical Armenian capital. Their studies lasted only a week.

The book contains 600 photographs and is designed for both professionals and ordinary readers.

 

 

Tert.am

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