Toilet-less?!!

Let's say this tops one of the WTF you'll ever encounter in your life!! let me tell you why..

Many of the things we wonder when we talk about history is the way of life (day to day life that is) from how people deal with daily normal activities. Thats one of the things that I wondered when I've been to the palace of Versailles.

I read once that the royalty in France in the 1700s and 1800s didn't have an actual "Bathroom" so automatically I thought okay so how do they do their business?! and what I discovered is that the servants bring the above pictured seat that can be carried anywhere and the royalties would use it then the servants have to get rid of it -_-"

As gross as that sounds.. that was the way life was before pluming! THANK GOD THAT CHANGED!!!

Ps. The picture was snapped by me when I was on a private tour at Versailles last year (Very Awesome)

The List is life

As you would have probably guessed by now im a history fanatic and a huge movie fan too! Now what if I had the pleasure of having a mixture of the two?.. Heaven!!!

A while back at univeristy, I watched a movie called “Schilnder’s List” for an English class and the movie was about the holocaust that occurred to the Jews in Germany during the Nazis era around 1939. That time was one of the most horrifying times in histoy, a pin point that will remain visable in the world’s historical records either told in books or captured by film which is how I was introduced to it.

Schidler’s List was directed by the one and only Steven Spileberg and starting Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand Polish Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories. (Based on a true story)

This part of history is not only adopted by this film, many stories brought up hints about these events. It's funny how this storyline reminded me of, a cartoon called (La7n al7yah) which translates to: The sound of Music, which is cartoon was depicting. I remember at the final episodes of this cartoon, the Nazis were taking over Europe. As a viewer, you can see clearly how people/characters were terrifed by the ways of the Nazis who eventually became a part of today's pop culture as a sign of racism and prejudice.

The movie was excellent yet a little hard on the eyes as it displayed forms of tourture that took place in Auschwitz concentration camp. It was considered a box office hit, taking home 7 Academy Awards so it would be a good idea to give it a view :)

If you decide to watch it pls share your thoughts, I'd love to hear from you!

وإسلاماه

من أجمل أعمال السينما المصرية في عصرها الذهبي ومن أحب الأفلام التاريخية لدي.. فيلم وإسلاماه.ح

وتدور أحداث القصة بين عامي ٦٣٣-٦٥٨ ميلادية في أفغانستان، وتبدأ مع هروب سلامه من هجوم التاتار علي مملكة السلطان جلال، وقد أخذ سلامه معه ابنة السلطان "جهاد" وابن أخته "محمود" وقرر بيعهم مع العبيد حتي لا يتم الإمساك بهم وهكذا تبدأ المغامرة وتنشأ قصة حب بين جهاد التي تقوم بدورها الفنانة لبنى عبدالعزيز ومحمود الذي يقوم بدورة الفنان القدير أحمد مظهر الذي قام ببطولة العديد من الأفلام المعروفة والناجحة.م

وما أعجبني في هذا الفليم هو الجو العام من أماكن التصوير إلى الديكور والملابس، فيقدم هذه الفليم جزء للجميع من قصة حب وأجواء إسلامية وتاريخية حتى جزء من الأكشن بمشاهد المبارزات والتفنن بركوب الخيل!ي

إنه لمن الأسف أن أعمال مثل هذه لم يشاهدها الأغلبية لأنني متأكدة أنه سينال إعجاب الكثيرين لتوافر كل مقومات العمل الناجح فيه.م

Nouriko?!! :/

How did that come about?! Some wondered where did that nickname come from?!!

Well typically the nicknames for the name "Noor" are (Nawari.. Noorz.. Nawar.. etc) so "Nouriko" was something different than the usual. (a reason that made me like it eventually)

It all started with a cartoon I used to watch with my bro called "Al Batal" (The Champion) it was about a kid from tokyo who was striving to become a professional boxer. One of the characters in this cartoon was called Nouriko and from that moment on my bro kept calling me that.

I found it to be so annoying at the beginning cause I didn't like the character that much! but with time, PLENTY of it, I got used to the name and ended up liking it! ^_^

Good Job bro! :p

The Cell..

“I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.” - Marie Antoinette

Following my path to exploring the incidents of the French Revolution, I headed to the Conciergerie which was a former royal palace and prison in Paris. Located across from the Louvre Museum, I didn't know what to expect when I dedicated a day to go there. Being to a royal palace is a cool thing but a prison? the idea of having one place that offered the thrill of opposite experiences sounded so appealing to me.

However, The real reason behind my quest was to see the famous cell of the queen "Marie Antoinette". YES, it was the ACTUAL cell that she was prisoned in during the revolution when she was captured. As I stepped in, I was amazed by the architecture of the place, it looked somewhat like a church from the inside with complex details and a twirl-shaped staircase that led to the kitchen (as I was told).

As I got to the queen's cell, I had the same excitement as I did when I went to see the Monalisa but this was different. This place went through tough times and it had that thing about it that made you want to stay silent as you wander around inside. Finally, after passing the prisoners cells I got to my destination and I looked through the small window with the overlapped bars (As you can see from the pic above) It was such a dramatic moment as I looked in and to my surprise there she was.

The recreation of the cell and her majesty sitting made me speechless as well as the tourists who were with me. I took good shots but I also observed and thought about how she could have possibly felt then. Alone, trapped with her husband and children taken away from her.

Speechless...