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Valiasr: Tehran`s Longest Avenue

Italy's Peter Delavale described Tehran as the country of sycamores in his travelogue 400 years ago.

(TEHRAN Iran Review) - Valiasr Avenue is Tehran’s longest avenue that connects its southernmost point to the furthest northern end. It is considered one of Tehran's main thoroughfares and commercial centres.

It is also the longest street in the Middle East, according to former BBC (now Al Jazeera) journalist Rageh Omaar.

An End to the Agony

It is an amputation of a healthy, sensitive body part that is performed without specific medical need, and without the patient's consent.

(TEL AVIV) - Germany's parliament may soon approve a law to protect religious circumcision, this to counteract a Cologne court ruling last June that pronounced the practice unlawful.

This is wrong - the German government should rethink. I say this as a Jewish parent from a proud rabbinic lineage, with relatives killed in the Holocaust; I say this as the maker of "It's a Boy!" - the 1995 British TV documentary that first broke the taboo on showing the hidden toll of circumcision.

Waiting for Women

'Breathes there a man with soul so dead that never to his wife has said'... “WILL YOU PLEASE HURRY UP?”

(PORTLAND, OR) - During my adult life I have always found myself standing at the front door of the house WAITING, watching time ticking away wondering what the hell she could be doing that is keeping her. This time it's the car keys she can't find. And it's my fault she can't find them! I should never have let her use them.

Pussy Riot Aces Anarchy and Lennon and Tolstoy Smile

"Blessed are The Peacemakers: THEY shall be called the children of God."

(CLERMONT, FL) - On Tuesday, Pussy Riot received one of five LennonOne Grant for Peace awards and on Wednesday an appellate court in Moscow set free one of the three jailed members of the punk protest band but upheld the two-year prison sentences of her band mates.

In August they were convicted over their plea to the Virgin Mary to rid Russia of Vladimir V. Putin as he headed into a March election that handed him a third term.

It`s a Yogi Berra market... Gentlemen Prefer Bonds
(All others buy stock)

When the rank and file are climbing on the caboose, you'll see me jumping off the locomotive.
- Joe Granville
The Kansas City Guru

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - Yogi, thou should be behind the plate at this hour.

We need your insight, Yogi. You should be saying something like: "So many people are nervous about the stock market these days, that it's hit a new high."
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A Bi-polar History of Canada The 18th Century: The Age of Reason (at least in Europe)

Canada has no colonial history -Prime Minister Stephen Harper

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - The 18^th Century history of Canada is divided into three brief periods of peace, following three treaties – the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748 and the Treaty of Paris in 1763.

Except for the Treaties, it was pretty well a continuous war, whenever the English and French weren't resting or doing wars in Europe.

John Lennon`s 72nd and a Light Still Shines on Truth

The former Beatle became a thorn in the side of the Nixon Administration for speaking up against the Vietnam War and for the unofficial anthem of that generations Peace Movement with Give Peace a Chance

(CLERMONT, FL) - John Lennon could have celebrated his 72nd birthday this Tuesday.

Two days shy of his 35th birthday, the New York State Supreme Court reversed his deportation order, which allowed Lennon to legally remain in the United States.

A Bi-polar History of Canada

The 17th Century:
C'est La Guerre (Pretty much)
The 17th Century belongs to Canada.
- Samuel de Champlain

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - Samuel de Champlain is considered the main figure in 17th Century Canada, although the English textbooks don't seem to think he was all that great.

Actually, he's an unlikely choice as poster boy, because most of that Century was about wars (French-English, French Scottish, and even on one occasion, French-French), and the famous Frenchman was more a lover than a fighter.

Some Eggs Hatch Some Eggs Don`t; Some Will Live and Then Some Won`t

Humans will eat other humans. Cannibalism was practiced as a matter of culture in some jungle tribes, and as a matter of necessity at other times.

(PORTLAND, OR) - How do you feel about yourself? Do you think you are smarter, better looking, more successful, all in all a superior person compared to, say your neighbor, your brother-in-law, your boss?

Do you look at the collective humanity as lesser persons? Do you think that if they were only as smart as you they wouldn't be on the welfare rolls? Feeling superior to others is called Hubris.

Salem-News Writer Credited for Bringing Clarity to Foreign Minister`s Alleged Affair in Pakistan

Is Pakistan's ISI supplying the rumor mill with bad information?

(ISLAMABAD, Pakistan) - Sparks are flying in Pakistan over an alleged affair between Foreign Minister Nina Rabbani Khar, and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the scion of the country’s most powerful dynasty.

Articles about the alleged affair have fueled feverish speculation and outrage in Pakistan since they were reported in a Bangladeshi tabloid earlier this week.