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	<title>www.CaucasusNow.com &#187; Spyurkblog</title>
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		<title>Ghazanchetsots</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Karabagh (also known as Qarabagh, Nagorno-Karabagh, Artsakh, and not known at all because it is a place that does not exist), there stands a cathedral constructed of white stone.  Inside, at the front of the church, downstairs, is a small domed room used by vartabeds, or priests, to confess their sins.  The Apostolic church [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spyurkblog.wordpress.com&#38;blog=11042562&#38;post=41&#38;subd=spyurkblog&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stone Sheep</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A sheep gravestone in Sisian, Armenia My grandfather was born in a small village near Sisian, which is how I found myself wandering through a yard of waist-high alfalfa and life-size stone sheep.  My guide book advised against photographing the sheep, at the risk of being fined.  I photographed them all.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spyurkblog.wordpress.com&#38;blog=11042562&#38;post=37&#38;subd=spyurkblog&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My last name</title>
		<link>http://spyurkblog.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/my-last-name/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Growing up, I hated my last name.  I hated how, on every first day of school, my teacher, while taking roll, inevitably would pause right in the middle of the list, widen her eyes in fearful recognition that the syllabic rules she knew would not save her from the ordeal that was my name.  The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spyurkblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11042562&#038;post=34&#038;subd=spyurkblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sassoon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should you find yourself in Sisian, Armenia, ask for a jeep-owner named Sassoon.  He&#8217;ll drive you up a mountain called Ughtasar, and on the way back down, he&#8217;ll pick you a bag of giant (and delicious) mushrooms.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spyurkblog.wordpress.com&#38;blog=11042562&#38;post=29&#38;subd=spyurkblog&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas</title>
		<link>http://spyurkblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 03:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My grandmother, in her teens, portraying a queen in a play. A couple of weeks ago, Grandma&#8217;s heater stopped working, and she spent her savings to replace it.  When she talks of dying, which I know will happen one day, she says, &#8220;When I close my eyes&#8230;&#8221;  She explained that she didn&#8217;t want my father, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spyurkblog.wordpress.com&#38;blog=11042562&#38;post=25&#38;subd=spyurkblog&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parents’ Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of the children at the orphanage where my grandmother was raised had parents, and so, twice a year, the orphanage had Parents&#8217; Day.  This photograph of my grandmother and her father was taken on one of these occasions.  Not long after this, he died of cholera.  This is the only image my grandmother has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spyurkblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11042562&#038;post=21&#038;subd=spyurkblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Takouhie</title>
		<link>http://spyurkblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/25/takouhie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 01:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My grandmother, Takouhie, was 3 years old when this photo was taken.  In it, she stands on the steps of an British evangelical orphanage in Beirut, Lebanon (1920s).  Though both her parents were still alive at the time, they could not afford to keep her.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spyurkblog.wordpress.com&#38;blog=11042562&#38;post=18&#38;subd=spyurkblog&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wishing Trees</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you travel to Armenia, you may see trees with handkerchiefs tied to them.  These are wishing trees.  What do you wish?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spyurkblog.wordpress.com&#38;blog=11042562&#38;post=15&#38;subd=spyurkblog&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>George, 52, first generation American</title>
		<link>http://spyurkblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/george-52-first-generation-american/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[George (on the right) grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin during the 1960s. As I child, all I knew was that we were Armenian and everyone else was not. Sure, every once a year we would go visiting the Armenian community in Racine where there were two or three other boys my age who were also [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spyurkblog.wordpress.com&#38;blog=11042562&#38;post=7&#38;subd=spyurkblog&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What’s a spyurk?</title>
		<link>http://spyurkblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/hello-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a spyurk, one of the 8 million people claiming Armenian ancestry living outside Armenia. The word spyurk literally means &#8220;spread.&#8221;  My goal with Spyurkblog is to explore issues related to being one of the spread, but also to look at the implications of spreading &#8211; spyurk or not &#8211; outside one&#8217;s social identity. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spyurkblog.wordpress.com&#38;blog=11042562&#38;post=1&#38;subd=spyurkblog&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" />]]></description>
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