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	<title>Dum Spiro Spero</title>
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		<title>The world&#8217;s largest Lapis Lazuli mine.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Dillon Hillas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It turns out that the world&#8217;s largest lapis lazuli mine is the Sari-i-Sang mine in northern Afghanistan. The ancient royal Sumerian tombs of Ur, located near the Euphrates River in lower Iraq, contained more than 6000 beautifully executed lapis lazuli &#8230; <a href="http://www.dillonhillas.com/dumspirospero/the-worlds-largest-lapis-lazuli-mine/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan&#8217;s treasures, jewelry and dolphins.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Dillon Hillas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am constantly amazed -and perplexed- at discovering the &#8220;hidden&#8221; treasures of Afghanistan&#8230;The dolphin clasp above brought to mind the pair of ancient boars I saw in Greece.  I just learnt that there is a dolphin statue at the airport &#8230; <a href="http://www.dillonhillas.com/dumspirospero/afghanistans-treasures-jewelry-and-dolphins/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Art in Afghanistan.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Dillon Hillas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Gallery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Mumford]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Mumford, a New York artist, writes about the National Gallery of Afghanistan and provides a window into a different world.  Interesting read. Thanks to Major Paul Smyth of UK Forces Afghanistan.]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes I feel tired of reading au-courant blogs&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Dillon Hillas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[and I find solace in reading blogs that teach me something along the way&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Rudyard Kipling &#8211; Ford o&#8217; Kabul River&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Dillon Hillas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Trying to learn &#8211; from a Western perspective- a little bit about Afghanistan, I came across Rudyard Kipling&#8217;s poem about the Kabul River.  Below is the poem, but here is an explanation of what happened behind the scenes&#8230; Ford O&#8217; &#8230; <a href="http://www.dillonhillas.com/dumspirospero/rudyard-kipling-ford-o-kabul-river/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Afghan oil paintings&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Dillon Hillas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Archaeology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bamyan Buddhas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil paintings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The world&#8217;s first oil paintings were in caves near two destroyed giant statues of Buddha at Bamiyan. For a fascinating story, read the National Geographic&#8217;s &#8220;Oldest Oil Paintings Found in Caves&#8221;.]]></description>
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		<title>Radio Azadi and Afghanistan.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Dillon Hillas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Radio Azadi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I shall be visiting Afghanistan for the first time in my life in the next few days.  What best describes my mood?  Excitement and trepidatious anticipation. Sometimes, the news that is reported is not that encouraging.  But sometimes, one reads &#8230; <a href="http://www.dillonhillas.com/dumspirospero/radio-azadi-and-afghanistan/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The ravages of polio.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Dillon Hillas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In preparation for an upcoming trip to Afghanistan, I was given a polio vaccine booster.  I realized then that I was completely unaware that polio is endemic there.  According to the World Health Organization:  &#8221; In 2011, only four countries (Afghanistan, &#8230; <a href="http://www.dillonhillas.com/dumspirospero/the-ravages-of-polio/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A soldier&#8217;s uniform.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Dillon Hillas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Empathy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philanthropy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joey Paulk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[philanthropy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ronald A. Katz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Meet Joey Paulk, who survived horrific injuries incurred in Afghanistan:  “The burns on a soldier’s face are huge: It’s your military uniform and you can’t take it off,” he said. “The surgery changed so much on my face that it &#8230; <a href="http://www.dillonhillas.com/dumspirospero/a-soldiers-uniform/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rabia Balkhi, the first and only Afghan queen and Persian poetess.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Dillon Hillas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rabia Balkhi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[She lived in the 10th century.  She fell in love with her brother&#8217;s slave.  She was imprisoned by her brother and committed suicide after writing her last poem, Love, on her prison wall with her own blood.  I am caught in Love&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://www.dillonhillas.com/dumspirospero/rabia-balkhi-the-first-and-only-afghan-queen-and-persian-poetess/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Who are you?&#8221;  Forensic anthropology and human rights.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Dillon Hillas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthropology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World War II]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[desaparecidos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dirty war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eyal Weizman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forensic antrhopology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mengele]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Keenan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Arts &#38; Letter Daily  comes a fascinating article,  Mengele&#8217;s Skull, that details &#8220;&#8230;the value of forensic anthropology to human rights&#8230;&#8221;  An excerpt: It was during the Mengele investigation that the procedures and techniques of forensic identification of human remains &#8230; <a href="http://www.dillonhillas.com/dumspirospero/who-are-you-forensic-anthropology-and-human-rights/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;&#8221;when the beauty of the Earth and the human race rises up and takes your heart with it&#8221;&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Dillon Hillas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gerard Van der Leun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peponi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Piano Guys]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So says Gerard Van der Leun, and I agree:]]></description>
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		<title>Merry Christmas!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 13:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Dillon Hillas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a beautiful poem penned by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, during the American Civil War, after having suffered great personal loss.            CHRISTMAS BELLS    I HEARD the bells on Christmas Day     Their old, &#8230; <a href="http://www.dillonhillas.com/dumspirospero/merry-christmas-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>National Geographic&#8217;s Photo Contest.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Dillon Hillas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal kingdom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Geographic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photo contest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are some wonderful Nature photos at National Geographic like the one below:]]></description>
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		<title>Hunting with eagles&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Dillon Hillas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eagle-hunters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soviet Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[After the Thaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andy Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kazakhstan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oxfam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Post-Soviet Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tajikistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;in Kazakhstan. The BBC has a fascinating video of what today is a sport. made me think of this beautiful and captivating photo by Andy Hall:]]></description>
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