Mirwais Momand

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[Mirwais Momand @MWMomand]

Voetbal humor!

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

Indonesians watching Netherlands vs Japan

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

A stunning photo of one of the Buddhas of Bamiyan, Afghanistan, before destruction ....

Buddhas of Bamiyan were two 6th Century AD, monumental statues of Gautama Buddha carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamyan valley of central Afghanistan, 130km northwest of Kabul at an elevation of 2500m. Carbon dating of the structural components of the Buddhas has determined that the smaller 38m "Eastern Buddha" was built around 570 AD, and the larger 55m "Western Buddha" was built around 618 AD.

The statues represented a later evolution of the classic blended style of Gandhara art. The statues consisted of the male Salsal ("light shines through the universe") and the (smaller) female Shamama ("Queen Mother"), as they were called by the locals. The main bodies were hewn directly from the sandstone cliffs, but details were modeled in mud mixed with straw, coated with stucco. This coating, practically all of which wore away long ago, was painted to enhance the expressions of the faces, hands, and folds of the robes; the larger one was painted carmine red and the smaller one was painted multiple colors. The lower parts of the statues' arms were constructed from the same mud-straw mix supported on wooden armatures. It is believed that the upper parts of their faces were made from great wooden masks or casts. The rows of holes that can be seen in photographs held wooden pegs that stabilized the outer stucco.

Buddhas are surrounded by numerous caves and surfaces decorated with paintings. It is thought that period of florescence was from the 6th-8th Century AD, until the onset of Islamic invasions. These works of art are considered as an artistic synthesis of Buddhist art and Gupta art from India, with influences from Sasanian Empire and Byzantine Empire, as well as country of Tokharistan.

The statues were blown up and destroyed in March 2001 by the Taliban.

#archaeohistories

[The Diplomat @Diplomat_APAC]

An entire generation of Afghan girls have had their aspirations suspended by policies systematically excluding them from education and public life. https://t.co/uIuG34jtBP

[History of Khorâsân and the Persianate World @BiruniKhorasan]

One of the earliest depictions of eyeglasses in Islamic world: Portraits of the Persian painter Mir Mussavir from Badakhshan by his son Mir Sayyid Ali (left from 1585, right from 1565-70) painted in India.

Glasses were most likely introduced in the region by Italian merchants.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This girl found out that the Albanian island that the Kushner’s are buying is registered in Amsterdam by Zvernic South Adriatic Development & it’s owned through a chain of Dutch Shell Companies & it’s managed by a trust office.They’re really trying to hide the owners names well.

[Mirwais Momand @MWMomand]

@HaraldDoornbos Wat een gekheid!

[Bruce @bruce_barrett]

I don’t want to hear about my carbon footprint ever again. https://t.co/cs8t9619dx

[Mirwais Momand @MWMomand]

@jpaternotte 👍

[Mahmoud Saikal محمود صيقل @MahmoudSaikal]

Strait of Hormuz closure hits Afghanistan's trade and aid | AP News

“For Afghan businesses and aid groups, losing both trade routes [Pakistan & Iran] has been devastating.” https://t.co/06b47D8CwB

[Mirwais Momand @MWMomand]

@HaraldDoornbos Always a good chain to stay in. All of them are run by Aga Khan family.

[Sam Dalrymple @SamDalrymple123]

We too often forget that India, Pakistan and Afghanistan were all more central to the Hellenistic world than Britain, Germany, or indeed the United States.

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

U.S president Dwight Eisenhower arriving at Bagram airfield, Kingdom of Afghanistan. (1959)

President Dwight D. Eisenhower visited Afghanistan in December 1959, becoming the first sitting U.S. president to travel to the country. His arrival at Bagram Airfield came during the height of the Cold War, when both the United States and the Soviet Union were competing for influence in strategically important nations across Asia and the Middle East.

At the time, Afghanistan was still a monarchy under King Mohammed Zahir Shah and pursued a policy of official neutrality between the two superpowers. Despite this neutrality, the country accepted economic and military assistance from both Washington and Moscow.

During the 1950s and 1960s, the United States funded major infrastructure projects in Afghanistan, including roads, dams, schools, and irrigation systems, while the Soviet Union helped construct military facilities and transportation networks.

Bagram Airfield would later become one of the largest and most important U.S. military bases during the Afghanistan War after 2001.

© History Pictures

#drthehistories

[Mirwais Momand @MWMomand]

Stupidty of Governments leads to such terrible news.

[Mahmoud Saikal محمود صيقل @MahmoudSaikal]

Selling children to survive: Afghan fathers forced to make impossible choices

"My children went to bed hungry 3 nights in a row. My wife was crying, so were my children. I begged a neighbour for some money to buy flour.I live in fear my children will die” https://t.co/3tA5socBoN

[The Gulag @WelcomeTheGulag]

Candid video shows Trump snuck a peek at Xi’s personal notes during the Beijing visit

[Narrate Palestine @NarratePal]

William Dalrymple - Scottish historian

“I thought the Romans came up with the word ‘Palestine’, but in fact Palestine is as old as literacy itself. In Egyptian form it appears as ‘Peleset’; the Assyrians refer to it; and Herodotus, the father of history, also speaks of Palestine

[Mirwais Momand @MWMomand]

@mattyglesias It was in what is now called Afghanistan. It should not be so difficult to read those maps https://t.co/Ei1TysIvVd

[New York Times Opinion @nytopinion]

“In wrenching interviews, Palestinians have recounted to me a pattern of widespread Israeli sexual violence against men, women and even children,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes.
https://t.co/Q1DYudXMfc

[Tufayl @tufaill_]

Karl Marx describing the end of the British army’s retreat from Kabul:

[Mirwais Momand @MWMomand]

Mostly caused by wrong policies by UN organizations. Spending billions on fancy Dubai trips and building any local sustainable infrastructure.

[UN News @UN_News_Centre]

Afghanistan: More than 13.8 million people now face acute food insecurity, while nearly five million children and pregnant or breastfeeding women are malnourished.

This and other stories in the World News in Brief ⤵️
https://t.co/UQGakdnDa4

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🚨NEXT WEEK SCHEDULE IS CRAZY

MON → Warsh becomes Fed Chair
TUE → CPI April
WED → PPI April
THU → Retail Sales + Trump flies to Beijing
THU-FRI → Trump-Xi summit

WEEK → Iran ceasefire status unknown

EXPECT INSANE MARKET VOLATILITY AND PRICE SWINGS