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...world where there is a significant Shi‘a population. Usually, the streets are hung with banners and flags, and those taking part will dress in black and may carry various ritual objects such as replicas of Husayn’s coffin, his tomb or his body, portable shrines with images of Husayn, and standards decorated with cloths and ribbons, and topped with metal crests of...

...world around him. Objects became brighter and clearer, and the space in the cramped box seemed to expand and take on unfamiliar dimensions. Now, under the influence of the largest dose of nitrous oxide anyone had ever taken, these effects were intensified to levels he could not have imagined. His hearing became fantastically acute, allowing him to distinguish every sound...

...world of dreams. [Manchester Town Hall] Manchester Town Hall I These hotels are, next to the cathedrals, perhaps the greatest wonder of England, and in Manchester the railway hotel is in some ways more wonderful than the cathedral, which is not so much planned on our native methods. Yet this has the merit, if it is a merit, of antedating our Discovery by nearly a century,...