Jottings from the Granite Studio

I am finally moving the blog onto a non-blocked server. Expect something before Halloween. Until then, with both feedreader and blogspot on the wrong side of the GFW, I’ve had to take counter-measures.
I tricked the Chinese site feedsky into publishing my feed by anonymousing my blogspot feed. You can access that feed stream here:
http://feed.feedsky.com/granitestudio
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For those interested in Central Asian history, the Library of Congress has made available online a large collection of photographs from the 1860s. The original collection was compiled under the direction of Konstantin Petrovich Von Kaufman (1818-1882), the first governor-general of Russian Turkestan. The Russian had been steadily pushing into the region throughout the 19th [...]

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