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Historical Events

by Terry Randolph | Sep 18, 2021 | Historical

Mtazamo Photography

Image. Western Cape, South Africa (2014)

Qur’an Gate (Persian: Darvāzeh Qur’an) is a historic gate in the north of Shiraz, the capital of Fars Providence, and is located at the northeastern entrance of the city, on the way to Marvdasht and Isfahan. The first capital of Fars, some 2500 years ago, was Pasargadae, located near to Shiraz. It was also the capital of Achaemenid King Cyrus the Great. The ceremonial capital of his successor, Darius, and his son Xerxes was Persepolis. Among the Iranian poets, mystics and philosophers born in Shiraz were the poets Sa’di and Hafiz, the mystic Ruzbehan, and the philosopher Mulla Sadra. (Photo – Dec 1970)

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Mystics And Seers

by Terry Randolph | Sep 20, 2021 | Mystic Nightingale

Wisdom, especially spiritual wisdom, is more than just knowledge; it is sound judgment and discernment. It is knowing what to pursue and what to let go, what to long for and what to flee. The stages that mark the wayfarers’ journey from their mortal abode to the heavenly…

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Beautiful Young Eritrean Lady

by Terry Randolph | Dec 31, 2020 | Historical, Portraiture

Out of Africa

Beautiful, Young, Eritrean Lady

The people of Eritrea come from nine different tribes and each tribe is different from the other in terms of language, music, clothes, food, customs and culture.

This beautiful young Eritrean lady is from the Kunama ethnic group indigenous to Eritrea, a Nilo-Saharan ethnic community living between the Gash and Setit (Mareb) rivers in Southwestern Eritrea. (Collection: Oct 2000).

Eritrea

The term “eritrea” derives from Sinus Erythraeus, the name Greek tradesmen of the third century B.C.E. gave to the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and the Africa continent (now known as the Red Sea). Later, during the Roman Empire, the Romans called it Mare Erythraeum, literary meaning “the red sea.” When Italy colonized a strip of land along the Red Sea in 1890, they named it ‘Eritrea’.

Africa Research Project

I begin research on my Africa Development Project in Sep 2000, first stop Eritrea. It would culmaniate in 2003 at the University of South Africa after time spent in nine African nations. I would periodically return to Cape Town, SA over several years.

Italian Presence in Africa

The photographic image is considered here as a primary element of a specific historical and cultural moment in view of the fact that it had a growing diffusion as a means of communication at the time of the “first Italian African war”, when it was already becoming a “mass” medium.

Eritrea Photo Collection

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Budapest Hungary

by Terry Randolph | Sep 25, 2020 | Historical

Budapest, Hungary

Ady Endre (1877-1919)
Hungarian Poet, journalist

Visible are pieces of several plastered-over wall posters on a building in Budapest. Possibly the one with strips of black/brown is what’s left of a commemorative poster for Ady Endre issued in 1957, and the other seems to be a remnant of a revolutionary poster (note ‘ghost images’ of masked protesters banishing firearms) that may reflect the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, a nationwide protest against the Hungarian People’s Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. This led to the armed invasion by the Soviet Union.
Image: ca 1983. (scanned film print).

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Soviet Invasion

Budapest, Hungary, 1956

During November 1956 the Soviets put a brutal end to the Hungarian Revolution. After twenty-seven years this building, riddled with bullet holes, remains a reminder of the Soviet invasion.
Image: ca 1983. (scanned film print).