Self-proclaimed champions... rarely are anything like their proclamation.
Self-proclaimed champions... rarely are anything like their proclamation.
For reasons which are not yet clear to me, I am creating my own Tamerlane Chess set on the cheep using cardstock, scissors, and glue. Halfway done now, need to make the dark pieces next, then shade half the squares on the board.
Tamerlane instructed his soldiers to bring a stone from Lake Issyk-Kul and leave it here, removing a stone on the way back if they had survived the conflict and the tall mound of remaining stones, numbering tens of thousands, was a kurgan erected by the fallen to their own memory.
San-Tash is an evocative sight tucked away far up this gorgeous valley of horses and horsemen – a veritable piece of super-sized landscape art. It's an enigma. #Kyrgyzstan #Tamerlane #CentralAsia #travel
Interesting thread on Timur #Timur #Tamerlane
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RT @Bagh_eBabur
On this day – April 9, 1336 – the Turkic conqueror Amir Timur was born in modern day Uzbekistan.
Timur would set out to establish one of the most significant civilizations in the world – the Timurid Dynasty.
In its height, the Timurid Dynasty stretched from Turkey to India.
https://twitter.com/Bagh_eBabur/status/1248261735590629376
Altun de KCK comentó que la resistencia y la lucha kurdas ha cambiado el curso de la crisis en Medio Oriente y describió los desarrollos en Rojava como los primeros en el Medio Oriente. Aquí la primera entrega de la entrevista. El miembro del Consejo Ejecutivo de la Unión de Comunidades de Kurdis