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CL final records and stats!

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The Name of “Baha'ullah” in the Form of a Rooster, Mishkin Qalam, 1887-1888, Harvard Art Museums: Calligraphy

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of John Goelet Size: 47.94 x 35.72 cm (18 7/8 x 14 1/16 in.) Medium: Ink, color and gold on paper

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/212748

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Bismillah, Haji Noor deen Mi Guangjiang, 2003, Harvard Art Museums: Calligraphy

The Arabic calligraphy is written in the Chinese “one-stroke” style (yi-bi shufa) that employs a wide, multi-toothed writing implement. The wide sheet of paper has been bordered with brown damask. The sweeping script is highly stylized, and the Arabic … Size: 72.8 x 138.2 cm (28 11/16 x 54 7/16 in.) Medium: Hanging scroll, ink on paper

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/57817

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Some useful apps!

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Upon death, our bodies will cease to exist; but our characters, traits, names, actions, memories will live on as much as they are shared by others. Cherishing them would mean we are still alive and not yet dead.

“You remain alive insofar as those who have known you outlive you. You will die with the last of them. Unless some of them have made you live on in words, in the memory of their children. For how many generations will you live on like this, as a character from a story?”

— Edouard Levé, trans. by Jan Steyn, from “Suicide”

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“So, if an individual with a low Q-factor comes across a great idea with a huge r value, the impact will still be mediocre, as the resulting product — or Qr — is diminished by the small Q-factor. Fantastic idea, poor execution. Think Apple’s first handheld Newton, with its inept handwriting recognition. The reverse also happens: A creative person with a high Q-factor can put out multiple weak or mediocre — or low r — products. Think AppleLisa, NeXT, the G-4 Cube, MobileMe. Never heard of them? They’re in the graveyard of Jobs’s many failures. If an idea has a small r value, no matter how high the Q, the product will be cheapened. Great execution, poor idea.

“Then there are those perfect-storm instances where the idea and the creator both shine. When the Q-factor and r are both high, they enhance each other, leading to a career-defining breakthrough. Think of the iPhone — a fantastic idea with brilliant execution, resulting in the product that defined Jobs’s legacy.”

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“Employers should recognize that offering oppor­tunities to older workers is smart business, and not just a feel-good, charitable act. Multigenerational teams with older members tend to be more produc­tive; older adults boost the productivity of those around them, and such teams outperform single-generational ones.”

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‫ذُو العَقْلِ يَشْقَى فِيْ النَّعيم بِعَقْلِهِ‬

‫وأَخُو الجَهَـالَةِ فِيْ الشَّقَـاوةِ يَنْـعَمُ‬

‫—أبو الطيب المتنبي‬

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Text Page, Arabic Prose (verso) Text from The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices (Automata) of Inb al-Razza al-Jazari, 1315, Cleveland Museum of Art: Islamic Art

The Arabic title of this work is Kitab fi ma'rifat al-hiyal al handasiyya (The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices). According to the description of the device illustrated here, the peacock is filled with water: as it flows into the vessel below, it raises a float that opens a door in the section above, causing the little figure to move forward offering soap; as more water flows, a second door will open and another figure will move forward offering a towel. Finally, the dirty water is drawn off by means of a spigot. Size: Overall: 31.3 x 21.5 cm (12 5/16 x 8 7/16 in.) Medium: ink and opaque watercolor on paper

https://clevelandart.org/art/1945.383.b

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Until writing was invented, men lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog. The goose quill put an end to talk. It abolished mystery; it gave architecture and towns; it brought roads and armies, bureaucracy. It was the basic metaphor with which the cycle of civilization began, the step from the dark into the light of the mind. The hand that filled the parchment page built a city.

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Daily Mirror, England, May 18, 1920 Image © The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved.

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“Even if you are not with me, the memories of you are with me. My heart sees you, even if you are made vanished from my vision. The eye sees who it loves but will end up losing the sight of them. But the one who sees with their heart, will never lose the sight (of the people they love).”

Mahmoud Mohamed Shaker, Abu Fahr, Egyptian writer, poet, journalist and scholar of the Arabic language.

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📍Sherwana Castle, Garmian

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Beautiful! Just listen peacefully and contemplate.

هل تعتني بالآخرين أكثر مما تعتني بنفسك؟

إذن ربما عليك سماع هذا المقطع ♡

إلهاء ماكر - Subtle Distraction

شاركوا العمل 😊

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بەڕوو 🌰

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📍Hawar Village, Hawraman

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📍Shameran, Darbandikhan