Repost from Books for --including CRESCENT MOONS AND POINTED MINARETS Illus. Mehrdohkt Amini (written by Hena Khan, https://t.co/npvkzFnEG8 Adding: GOLDEN DOMES AND SILVER LANTERNS and ONE SUN AND COUNTLESS STARS--by the same amazing team.

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"Christmas Ewe" by Nikolai Gogol illustrated by Oleg Kominarets in 2009 edition.

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"Christmas Ewe" by Nikolai Gogol illustrated by Oleg Kominarets in 2009 edition. Oleg has had definitely lot's of fun drawing this little devil, who actually helps the hero to get the slippers off the Tsaritsa’s feet and marry his beloved Oksana.

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can't stop thinking about towers after reading Book of the New Sun. towers, minarets, citadels, campaniles, steeples, robo-cataphracts... that's what I'm here for

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This map made by Piri Reis presents a highly accurate portait of Constantinople as it was 70 years after its capture.

Already, the city is adorned by numerous mosques, with their identifiable domes and minarets.

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(Disclaimer: Excavation house may be surrounded by a number of minarets, first call for prayer about 4:30 ... a.m. 😬😲😉)

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“Happy holiday, dear women!” Soviet poster by I. Kominarets (1976)

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