Alan Orth
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This allows me to use Hugo's image resizing to create img srcsets where the client downloads an appropriate image depending on their screen size. I had to go back and find original photos for each of these posts because Hugo was resizing my already-optimized versions and they looked horrible. Unfortunately I couldn't find originals for these posts: - aqaba-dirty-disappointing - contemporary-arab-design-jrf-showroom - eid-mubarak-neighborhood-dumpster - no-noise-near-noisy-mosque - red-orange-yellow-rice-bab-al-yemen Hugo will fall back to looking in the static directory for these.
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+++ tags = [ "Petra", ] date = "2016-12-24T20:13:21+02:00" title = "The Grandeur of Petra" slug = "grandeur-petra" images = [ "DSC_0029.JPG", ] description = "Petra is not only grander than we suppose, but grander than we can suppose." categories = [ "Architecture", ]
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{{< figure src="DSC_0029.JPG" title="Petra's "monastery" basking in the golden light just before sunset" alt="Petra's "monastery" basking in the golden light just before sunset" >}}
The Nabataeans were a tribe who became filthy rich on the trade of frankincense, myrrh, and spices in the Arabian peninsula around 2,000 years ago. They built Petra as the capital of their flourishing civilization. Hauntingly beautiful stone facades standing one hundred meters tall are amazingly intact and well preserved to this day.
Evolutionary biologist J. B. S. Haldane once said that "the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose," alluding to the fact that physical sciences often raise more questions than they answer, leaving us scratching our heads. After visiting Petra I was overwhelmed with a similar feeling, that Petra is not only grander than we suppose, but grander than we can suppose. What I would give to have seen it in its time!