Saturday, September 30, 2023

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Sunday, September 24, 2023

Black & White by Casey Bean

Saturday, September 23, 2023

Friday, September 22, 2023

Thursday, September 21, 2023

Beastly Clues T. S. Eliot, Torquemada, and the Modernist Crossword

 https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/beastly-clues/



Wednesday, September 20, 2023

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Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Tangut Discoveries at the Shanzuigou Caves



https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Blog/2020/07/shanzuigou.html




The Shanzuigou Caves (Shānzuǐgōu shíkū 山嘴沟石窟) are a Buddhist complex comprising six natural caves in the sides of a valley on the eastern flank of the Helan Mountains, about 20 km west of the centre of Yinchuan as the crow flies. Yinchuan is now the capital of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of China, but nearly a thousand years ago it was the capital of the Western Xia kingdom (1038–1227) of the Tangut people.

The Shanzuigou valley opens onto the Ningxia plain by Tombs 5 and 6 of the Western Xia imperial tombs, about 7 km from the western edge of the urban centre, and the caves are reportedly situated about 10 km into the valley, although from the position given in Google Maps they seem to be closer to 8 km from the valley mouth along the winding valley.

Sunday, September 10, 2023

Friday, September 8, 2023