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Lake in the mountains, 1962, Martiros Sarian

https://www.wikiart.org/en/martiros-sarian/lake-in-the-mountains-1962

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mount ararat (armenian: արարատ or մասիս [masis]) is a mountain in the armenian highlands. “ararat” comes from the greek version of the hebrew spelling אררט (“arratt” according to google translate) of the word urartu, which was a kingdom that existed in the armenian highlands in the 6th-9th centuries bc.

armenians use “ararat” and “masis” interchangeably. the smaller peak (lesser ararat) is also called “sis” (armenian: սիս).

ararat is the mythical resting place of noah’s ark, as mentioned in the book of genesis. it was the first mountain poking above the flood waters as they receded following the great flood.

ararat is regarded by both christians and armenians: it was major in pre-christian armenian mythology. it was considered the home of the gods and referred to as the holy mountain.

to represent our culture, we use this symbol widely.

but because of colonialism, genocide and brainwashing, ararat is legally a part of turkey now and most turkish people consider it theirs but it’s always been and always will be armenian.

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Armenia, near Lake Sevan, 2018.

Photo by Alexis Pazoumian.

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Armenian novelist Zabel Yesayan with her family in Paris, 1918. On the left, Dikran Yesayan, in the middle Sophie, far right, Hrant and Zabel in front with the Armenian flag of the first republic. Yesayan was slated for arrest in Istanbul on April 24, 1915 alongside several hundred other Armenian community leaders and intellectuals, but she escaped.

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շնորհաւոր նոր տարի եւ սուրբ ծնունդ

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Cliff in the slope of Aragats, 1958, Martiros Sarian

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Mihr, Armenian god of the sun, truth and justice.

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an interesting fact about the armenian genocide is that the word ‘genocide’ itself was literally invented specifically to describe the armenian genocide and yet everyone’s a bit waffley about whether ‘genocide’ is the right term to talk about the systematic extermination of millions of people for explicit reasons of ethnic cleansing

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I just turned in my last undergrad project. feels good

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Anna Boghiguian (Աննա Բողիկյան), Ani, 2015.

Venice Biennale installation: Armenity (Հայություն).

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what i’ve been doing instead of working on my last project. quarter for scale because this thing is tiny

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shoutout to instagram for finally letting us see recent posts in tags again

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I can taste the end and it tastes like armenian food and a new flavor of lacroix

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today I gave my final presentation for one of my classes and my professor loved it which is great. maybe optics isn’t so bad after all lol

things I still have to do:

finish my paper for the same class (easy)

finish my part of the report for a different class (also easy)

finish my design project (not easy because my lab partner is useless)

take an exam for the design class (again, bad, because I have to spend all my time on the project instead of studying to make up for this person’s slacking)

I’m about to have a degree in electrical engineering

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Persian-Armenian embroidery sampler, late 19th century

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3 weeks until I graduate 😶

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for one of my classes I’m working on a project to automatically detect what key a song is in and I couldn’t figure out why the code wasn’t working for one of the songs. it turns out that the song is in G Lydian which our algorithm definitely cannot detect so I’m just going to pretend this didn’t happen and remove it from the test set