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Imagination

“I got a statistic for you right now. Grab your pencil, Doug. There are five billion trees in the world. I looked it up. Under every tree is a shadow, right? So, then, what makes night? I'll tell you: shadows crawling out from under five billion trees! Think of it! Shadows running around in the air, muddying the waters you might say. If only we could figure a way to keep those darn five billion shadows under those trees, we could stay up half the night, Doug, because there'd be no night!”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

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The Rainbow Building

Twenty light years from home.

"The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes."

–  Marcel Proust

     

"Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too."

– Blaise Pascal

       

"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance."

– Plato

"Simplicity is complexity resolved."

– Constantin Brancusi

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After Hours

THE CURRENT CHALLENGE

Fri Feb 21, 2014

This week's challenge:
'Male'.

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Teotihuacan II

Facade of the Temple of the Feathered Serpent 

Pyramid of The Moon

At Pyramid of The Sun

La Gruta Restaurant

Zenith

The city reached its peak in AD 450, when it was the center of a powerful culture whose influence extended through much of the Mesoamerican region. At its peak, the city covered over 30 km² (over 11½ square miles), and perhaps housed a population of 150,000 people, with one estimate reaching as high as 250,000 Various districts in the city housed people from across the Teotihuacano region of influence, which spread south as far as Guatemala. Notably absent from the city are fortifications and military structures.

The nature of political and cultural interactions between Teotihuacan and the centers of the Maya region (as well as elsewhere in Mesoamerica) has been a long-standing and significant area for debate. Substantial exchange and interaction occurred over the centuries from the Terminal Preclassic to the Mid-Classic period.

"Teotihuacan-inspired ideologies" and motifs persisted at Maya centers into the Late Classic, long after Teotihuacan itself had declined. However, scholars debate the extent and degree of Teotihuacano influence.

Some believe that it had direct and militaristic dominance; others that adoption of "foreign" traits was part of a selective, conscious and bi-directional cultural diffusion. New discoveries have suggested that Teotihuacan was not much different in its interactions with other centers from the later empires, such as the Toltec and Aztec. It is believed that Teotihuacan had a major influence on the Preclassic and Classic Maya, most likely by conquering several Maya centers and regions, including Tikal and the region of Peten, and influencing Maya culture. [Wiki]

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