Last month in London, multi-millionaire businessman and author Farhad Hakimzadeh, 60, a Harvard- and MIT-educated American citizen of Iranian descent and the former head of the Iranian Heritage Foundation, was sentenced after pleading guilty in May, 2008, to “10 counts of theft at the British Library (with 20 additional counts taken under consideration) and four at the Bodleian, [...]
Archive for February 9th, 2009
Steal This Book! or: A Not-So-Gentle Madness
Posted in Books, Collectors & Collecting, Crimes & Misdemeanors on February 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Good Morning Viet Nam – It’s National Poetry Day!
Posted in Asia, Foreign Travel, Photography, Writers & Writing on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
All across Viet Nam today poets “are agog with excitement” celebrating national “Poetry Day.” (via Saigon Giai Phong Daily) [Display of puppets, Hanoi, December, 2006; Full photo]
Travel Photo of the Day: Siena, Italy
Posted in Architecture, Europe, Foreign Travel, Photography on February 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Trompe l’oeil window, Siena, Italy, September, 2004. (Full photo)
