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Mostar, Bosnia

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Antonis Martsakis, Cretan musician.

#Greek men.... #the most perfect perfection

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Amma Photo Credit: Dilani Bala

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TURKISH ISLAMIC CALLIGRAPHY ART (7) by OTTOMANCALLIGRAPHY on Flickr.

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Education does not take place when you learn something you did not know before. Education is your ability to use what you have learned to be better today than you were yesterday.

Iyanla Vanzant (via purplebuddhaproject)

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Pakeezah (1972)

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Heavenly conditions. The shrine of Hazrat Ali ebn Abi Taleb (as). MashAllah!

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Ethnic composition of the northern part of the Balkans in 1880 by the English-German cartographer E.G. Ravenstein.

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Croatia

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The Skull Tower of Nis - Serbia

A macabre tower 15 feet high in Nis, Serbia, was once covered with 952 skulls; 58 still remain embedded in the crumbling edifice to bravery in the face of death.

During the 1809 Battle of Cegar, the Serbian rebels were incredibly outnumbered by the advancing Turkish forces. Yet refusing to surrender, the Serbian leader Stevan Sinđelić shot at a packed gunpowder depot, its explosion killing him, his men, and much of the enemy army.

The Turkish leaders were furious, and to serve as a warning to anyone else who so brazenly went against the Ottoman Empire, the dead rebels’ heads were decapitated, and their scalps were stripped and stuffed and shipped back to the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II in Constantinople for evidence of their defiant deaths. Each of their skulls was then lodged in a tower, with Sinđelić’s skull placed at the very top.

Yet the brutality didn’t stop the Serbians’ desire for freedom, and years after the liberation of Niš in 1878, a chapel was constructed in 1892 around the deteriorating tower. Many of the skulls had been removed by families for burial, but many still remained, and what remained became an emotional memorial to sacrifice, and a morbid reminder of barbarism of war.

View the full photo gallery at 31 Days of Halloween: #5 - Skull Tower on Atlas Obscura!

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A Tamil student from Sri Lanka

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Apur Sansar (1959)

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Skadarlija is a vintage street and an urban neighborhood. It is located in the Belgrade municipality of Stari Grad (Old town) and generally considered the main bohemian quarter of Belgrade, styled as the Belgrade Montmartre.

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