Nina-Maria, TV Studio, Erbil (Arbil), Iraqi Kurdistan (an autonomous region of northeastern Iraq).
She's just tweeted about a lovely Kurdish song she's discovered. It turns out to be a translation of a song by Haris Alexiou (To Tango tis Nefelis), which is in fact a composition by Loreen McKennitt (Tango to Evora). Alexiou wrote Greek lyrics for the melody.
Meanwhile, back in Washington...Lexington's Notebook on the Death Penalty Debate
On the subject of the death penalty in the USA (see Lexington, above), here's a photo from the early 1970's, of D K Toteras touring California with a replica of the gas chamber on the back of a pick-up truck, protesting against the use of the gas chamber/death penalty in California, as a cruel and unnatural punishment:
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