Archive for the 'Off the Beaten Track' Category

26 Jan 2010

Noor Inayat Khan : Princess, Spy, Martyr, Heroine

By Anwar Hussain This is a fascinating story so behold. Sultan Fateh Ali Tipu, also known as the Tiger of Mysore, was the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore in India. His full name was Sultan Fateh Ali Khan Shahab or Tipu Saheb Tipu Sultan. He was not just a ruler but also a scholar, [...]

13 Sep 2009

Sheikh Ali Hussein

By Joe Palmer East Africa: In 1966 the U S Agency for International Development built a residential school for the training of teachers in Somalia near the city of Afgoi on the Shabelle River a dozen miles inland from the capital city, Mogadishu. The construction contract was given to a company in Nairobi, Kenya. There [...]

18 Aug 2008

Keep it Real

While Al Qaeda has a problem with things elongated, where the length is always roughly three times that of the width, Hindus in India trek through the roughest terrain to go to Amarnath to offer prayers before an ice lingam By Ejaz Haider TS Note : From the land of the pure, a hilarious piece [...]

12 Jun 2008

Bush’s Adios

Author’s note: The soon to come Bush’s farewell address will be delivered in Texican, his native language. To enjoy the address, you got to have a working knowledge of Texican. The lexicon for Texican is given at the end of this address. By Anwaar Hussain Guys ‘n gals! Howdy gang, When I took over the [...]

04 May 2008

Thesmophoria, not Euphoria

by Joe Palmer TS Admin : Off the beaten track. From an epithet of Demeter, the earth-goddess [Thesmo-]: casting pigs into chasms, and mixing their decaying flesh with earth to insure fertility My office mate wore a bow tie with electric bulbs connected to a battery in his pocket so that he could turn them [...]

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