Atlas Mountains
The Atlas mountains on the way to Ouarzazate.
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The photos on this site are copyright by Laurenz Bobke.
May 25, 2007
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Lucknow residency
The "residency" in Lucknow was demolished in the Indian mutiny of 1857. The uprising started when Indian soldiers refused to "bite the cartridge". This referred to the way the paper cartridges containing gunpowder were opened at the time, the problem being that, in order to keep the dry, they had been greased with pork or beef fat. This, of course, was not in accordance with Muslim and Hindu believes. ...