Monkey (taken from our main balcony)

Monkeys!

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December 8th 2008
There is a family of monkeys that lives somewhere nearby, and occasionally they come to the apartment complex. I looked down on the courtyard one afternoon and they were frolicking and rolling around. Oh, so cute. But these monkeys are kind of gross up close and personal: they can easily grab things with their niffty opposable thumbs, and we've been told they bite. Yesterday, I was sitting rea ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more