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Wednesday, August 17, 2005

IN ERBIL



UD's husband and another American are walking in Erbil, a town in Kurdistan. A Kurd approaches them and asks: "Where are you from?" They tell him. "Thank you," he says. "I love you."


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UPDATE:: The New York Times has a long, front-page article (in the Science section) about the history of Erbil, possibly the world's oldest continually inhabited city.
Posted at: 8/17/2005 08:33:00 AM