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Samanids Mausoleum, First destination

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  Hi, everybody!👋 Welcome to my blog🤗 I will share information on my impressions and experiences about our trip around Bukhara. We started our initial lessons which is part of our qualificational practice and had an amazing travel to historical sights. The first destination had been Samanids Mausoleum. Muborak Azimova gave informative speech and told about its architecture and constructional history.  About the monument ☝️ Of all the medieval buildings in Bukhara, the Samanids Mausoleum is of special interest. This world-famous architectural masterpiece was built at the close of the ninth century. The mausoleum was erected as a family crypt immediately after the death of Ismail Samani's father. Later, Ismail himself and his grandson Nasr were also buried in it. It is interesting to note that erecting crypts was against Islamic law at that time, for Islam forbade erecting any post-mortem monuments upon the tombs of Muslim believers. However, the prohibition was broken in the ...

History of unusual sport

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Hey, everybody. You are welcome to my blog🤗.  Today I would like to share information about the history of a new and unusual sport. It is called EI which means 'extreme ironing'. Have you ever heard about it. If not, let's learn about it 😉😉😉😉😉. Extreme ironing (also called EI) is an extreme sport in which people take ironing boards to remote locations and iron items of clothing. According to the Extreme Ironing Bureau, extreme ironing is "the latest danger sport that combines the thrills of an extreme outdoor activity with the satisfaction of a well-pressed shirt." Part of the attraction and interest the media has shown towards extreme ironing seems to center on the issue of whether it is really a sport or not. It is widely considered to be tongue-in-cheek. Some locations where such performances have taken place include a mountainside of a difficult climb; a forest; in a canoe; while skiing or snowboarding; on top of large bronze statues; in the middle of a ...

Thanksgiving day😇

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 I can remember that wonderful day clearly. It was on November, 25. We had a great time with our group. This post is for you to remember that day and enjoy from the pictures🤗. I can say that everything was great. I never forget about the atmosphere of that day including decorations, dance shows, preparations🤤. Here you can see pictures of our Thanksgiving day🙂.