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Domino, whatever you say, a visit to Copenhagen where those lovely office secretaries get to tan topless in public parks should definitely be one of your top priorities. :D I would visit that city just for this, at any day you care to mention. :rolleyes:

Thus the reason I dated a Dane for a long long time. Have been to Denmark twice. LOVE it.

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here is one that you all probably will know.

 

I did nto take the picture, but been there twice. Once in 81 and another in 94

I know where it is. Except I couldn't remember that there actually was the obelisk/fountain in front of the rotunda. You know, the one with a hole on top. :D

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here is one that you all probably will know.

 

I did nto take the picture, but been there twice.  Once in 81 and another in 94

 

http://hyeforum.com/uploads/post-1-1091549794.jpg

 

Patheon by Marcus Agrippa in Rooooooma . :D

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OK, get ready to be grossed out if you don't know about this concept already - what are these two? They are in different countries (Iran and India, respectively) but serve the same purpose.

 

http://s94772541.onlinehome.us/cont13.jpg

 

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Those are Zorastrian funeral areas are they not. :smartass:

Yup, they are Zoroastrian towers of silence, or Towers of Silence. :P They leave their dead in these confines, naked, to be stripped bare to the bones (don't know what they do with the bones later if they're not carried away) by birds - in fact, in the second picture, the tower is the one in Mumbai, India, with the birds being vultures.

I rather recently listened to a Parsee from India who told us about their religion and famous Zoroastrians (some of them - including Freddy Mercury - on British stamps) and all that. Someone asked about the towers of silence, and while he said that today Zoroastrians were perfectly happy to comply with the rules in their country of residence, the Parsees of India had started to be concerned with the development around their one tower of silence in Mumbai - huge, tall buildings, disconcerting the vultures. So, he said, they had had to recruit ornithologists on how best to redirect the vultures to the tower for their daily fodder. :lol2:

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