Beyond the Blue Domes

GRANDMA GOES ON A CRUISE My husband drove me to San Pedro  port and dropped me there because I wanted to take a cruise to south America with a friend. I asked him to wait for a moment so I c...

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MY LATEST MUSING. "How could a woman at my age cry over an election?" It was around 11 pm when my phone rang. I was alone, in front of the TV watching the results of the presidential election...

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Imagine yourself walking in a river where the water is above your waist and the current takes you forward.  That's how I felt when on April 24, I walked along 160,000 other people for justic...

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AND JEB IS THE SMART ONE? By Jack Neworth  on May 15, 2015 in Laughing Matters On Monday, I was watching Fox News. (Actually, while flipping channels.) Anchor Megyn Kelly asked Jeb Bu...

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AT THE END OF THIS ARTICLE, READ STEVE JOBS REACTION TO TURKISH GOVERNMENT FROM THE MOUTH OF A TOUR-GUIDE IN ISTANBUL. The Daily Beast: Steve Jobs took Armenian Genocide personally Apri...

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After a lot of hype, Kardashians, stars of TV reality show, arrived in Yerevan last night – April 8.  This is their first trip to Armenia from where their father's side of the family comes fro...

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LAURYN SCHROEDER  |  APR 5TH 2015 3:40PM INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Indiana tourism agencies are rolling out campaigns emphasizing that everyone is welcome, but it might not be enough to quickly ...

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IF DIVIDED WE FALL, WATCH OUT BELOW By Jack Neworth  on April 3, 2015 in Laughing Matters Just when you think we can’t become more divided as a country, someone finds a way. I’m r...

http://beyondthebluedomes.blogspot.com/2015/04/a-bill-passed-by-indiana-legislature.html

 How to win an Armenian-style Easter egg fight COURTESY OF LORY TATOULIAN on KPCC 83.9 Talk Show Which one will crack first? The morning egg hunts have ended and it's time for those cel...

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Archaeologists have unearthed three shrines dating back around 3,300 years in Armenia. Discovered in a hilltop fortress in Gegharot, Armenia, experts believe that the shrines were used by rule...

http://beyondthebluedomes.blogspot.com/2015/03/3300-year-old-prophecy-shrines-found-in.html

THE FIRST OIL WELL IN BAKU WAS DRILLED BY IVAN MIRZOEV (HOVHANNES MIRZOYAN) IN 1871. Tiflis (Tbilisi) to the north – the capital of Georgia today – had been since the middle ages a not ins...

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GIVE WAR A CHANCE By Jack Neworth  on March 13, 2015 in Laughing Matters 1 In 1969, John Lennon wrote “Give Peace a Chance” and it soon became an anthem for the anti-Vietnam War...

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DATE OF ARMENIA’S BIRTH, GIVEN IN 5TH CENTURY, GAINS CREDENCE By NICHOLAS WADE MARCH 10, 2015 Movses Khorenatsi, a historian in the fifth century, wrote that his nativeArmenia  had been...

http://beyondthebluedomes.blogspot.com/2015/03/evidence-shows-that-armenian-race-goes.html

When U're Black, U're Black! When I was born, I was BLACK When I grew up, I was BLACK When I went in the sun, I stayed BLACK When I got cold, I was BLACK When I was scared, I was BLACK When...

http://beyondthebluedomes.blogspot.com/2015/02/black-or-colored-people.html

This year for the first time Armenians entered a float in the Rose Parade.  Here is my reflections As the Armenian Float went by...  On January first, better known as the laziest day of the ...

http://beyondthebluedomes.blogspot.com/2015/01/signs-of-changing-nation-amid-rose.html

The following is an account by Garen Kazanc, published in Armenian Weekly.  It is about a slice of history that not many people would know about it – How Turkish government Levied taxes on no...

http://beyondthebluedomes.blogspot.com/2015/01/ill-squeeze-those-armenians-like-lemons.html

THE FOLLOWING TWO ESSAYS ARE REFLECTIONS BY TWO JEWISH WOMEN TOP 10 REASONS WHY IT'S EASIER TO BE JEWISH AT CHRISTMAS Getting Over Holiday Envy  by: Judy Carter   THERE WAS NEVER AN ...

http://beyondthebluedomes.blogspot.com/2014/12/does-it-sound-like-im-boycotting.html

Hidden Kitchens by: The Kitchen Sisters Producers The Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva) are producers of the duPont-Columbia Award-winning, NPR series, Hidden Kitchens , and two ...

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Watching the Eric Garner Video Tape and listening to the police justify the killing of a man who at most should have been ticketed for selling cigarettes was much more than a travesty of justice...

http://beyondthebluedomes.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-epidemic-of-police-brutality-what.html

My microwave in the box Although I had heard that people were urging shoppers to boycott Malls on Black Friday as a protest over the decision of the Grand Jury to not indict officer Darren W...

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The following story by Kristi Rendahl was published in the Armenian Weekly on line magazine.  She has worked many years in Armenia and Georgia and has developed a fondness for those two culture...

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1910 FORD MAKE SURE YOU READ ALL THE STATISTICS UNDER THE PHOTO. THIS HAS ONLY BEEN 104 YEARS AGO...AMAZING!!! SHOW THIS TO YOUR FRIENDS, CHILDREN AND/OR GRANDCHILDREN! THE YEAR IS 1...

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Photo via Vroman's Facebook page A lot has changed about books since 1894, but one thing hasn't: Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena is celebrating its 120th birthday this weekend. Founded Nove...

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Turkish Coffee? Think again! Here’s an interesting article called "Misnomers Galore" by Jirair Tutunjian. Panama hats don’t come from Panama. The German measles did not originate in Germ...

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On December 17, 2011, on this blog, I posted about Iran hijacking a US drone.  Here is the caricature that accompanied the post. Today I received an email from a friend who asked me to Lea...

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