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Uzbekistan Entry #7 – Khiva

The most remote Silk Road city, 300 miles West of Bukhara, is an open-air museum more intact than both Samarkand and Bukhara.  It is a maze of mosques, madrasahs and palaces; most enclosed within an area less than one mile square.  Khiva became prominent in the 16^th Century in a bitter rivalry with Bukhara, which had fallen in wealth and strength when traders shifted to sea routes.  The competition between these two cities fueled an architectural arms race.  The largest medieval madrasah was built in Khiva, called Muhammad Amin-Khan, with 125 hudjras and 260 pupils in a structure 100 yards by 75 yards. Follow the link for more http://www.delightinhim.com/uzbekistan-entry-7-khiva-.html

God is Not Great Book Review

Christopher Hitchens is a gifted writer with a great mind, a lot of real world experience, a ribald sense of humor and a devastating pen. I would not want to be the target of one of his polemics. The problem is that CH is great at lobbing opinion bombs at his targets from a distance, but he either knows nothing about the religions he attacks beyond the most superficial of details. Find more at http://www.delightinhim.com/god-is-not-great-book-review.html