And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Monday, May 2, 2022
Photographs of Persepolis, Iran taken in 1935. Persepolis dates back to the Achaemenid Period, 550-330 BC
Think what it looked like before Alexander burned it down.
ReplyDeleteBeen there. Amazing place. Hope, someday, to go back.
ReplyDeleteHow much is left after Islam became radical after the Shah of Iran left? Thank Carter for the crap our nation deals with today.
ReplyDeleteGoes back much further than that. The Shaw was installed over a democratically elected government in the 1950s.
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