modern ruins

Via Bryan Alexander, I found opacity.us, which offers photo galleries of modern urban ruins. Lovely in a gothic, haunting way.

Why we're there, part 2

Because of this. Women, children found in Iraqi mass grave (AFP): AFP – The remains of women and children, believed to be victims of Saddam Hussein's ousted regime, have been found in a mass grave dug up by workers who were laying down pipes in Iraq's southern city of Karbala, a local official said.

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Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity. — William Hiram Foulkes