Silk Road city marks 2,750 years
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The Silk Road city of Samarkand marks its 2,750th birthday only a few years after reaching its 2,500th.
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BusinessWeek Online - Seventy-five years is a mere blink of history's eye. Yet since 1929, when BusinessWeek was first published, the world has been transformed by profound innovation and technological wizardry. Three-quarters of a century ago, there were no safe and effective antibiotics, no jet travel, no commercial television, and no computers. Many died of routine infections. A five-day ocean voyage was the main way to get from America to Europe, and "wireless" meant the wood-paneled Radiola in the parlor. Since then our mastery of the physical and biological world has strengthened remarkably. ...
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The Sufi mystic's message of love still reverberates on the 800th anniversary of his birth.
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BOMBAY -- For centuries, this city has been the citadel where Zoroastrianism, one of the world's oldest religions, has persevered in the face of overwhelming odds.
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It has been a long and winding road paved with 30 years of disharmony.
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Asia Societyâs glinting and glowing show of pre-Islamic art offers windows onto history, past and present.
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Afghans began voting on Saturday in a  historic poll that will give the mountainous Islamic nation on  the ancient Silk Road its first elected president and perhaps  end over a quarter-century of war.
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A Japanese silver mine and a Parthian  fortress in Turkmenistan, both dating back to the 1600s, were  among sites added to the United Nations World Heritage list on  Thursday.
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Legend has it the so-called Pearl of Allah was created as a symbol of peace 2,500 years ago in ancient China. To Victor Barbish, the 14-pound gem has been nothing but a big headache.
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If legend is to be believed, the end of a victorious war was behind Pheidippides&#39; trek from Marathon to Athens 2,500 years ago.
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BEIJING - A group of state-owned Chinese companies has agreed to help finance and build an iron ore and infrastructure project worth nearly $2 billion (Australian) in the Pilbara region of western Australia.
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Millions of Afghans prepared for a  historic poll on Saturday, which will give the mountainous  Islamic nation on the ancient Silk Road its first elected  president and perhaps end over a quarter century of war.
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Archaeologists have found a 2,500-year-old tomb near Egypt's ancient pyramids in Giza, the head of the excavation team told Reuters on Thursday.
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Launching an ambitious Guardian aid experiment, Alan Rusbridger travels a few hours from London - and 700 years back in time.
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"I wish to inform you that I shall personally attend the meeting and also be present at all the functions organised for the celebrations of the silver jubilee of Her Majesty the Queen."  Britain, which turned to the International Monetary Fund for help after a 1976 sterling crisis, held lavish celebrations to mark the queen's 25 years on the throne, including a service at Saint Paul's cathedral ... via Gulf Times
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DAFEN, China  - It only takes two days for Chen Quan to crank out a reproduction of a Yue Minjun.
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NANJING, China  - China marked 70 years since Japan's Nanjing massacre on Thursday, invoking memories of the atrocity to remind Tokyo that the wartime past remains a bitter backdrop to an improving relationship.