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"Whatever you believe, that you will be. If you believe yourselves to be sages, sages you will be tomorrow...

"For if there is one common doctrine that runs through all our apparently fighting and contradictory sects, it is that all glory, power, and purity are within the soul already."

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Azerbaijan – and other names I have gone by

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May 28

Azerbaijanis have been celebrating May 28 as Independence Day for the past 90 years–with a brief intermission during that whole 70-year Soviet occupation thing.

After the collapse of the Russian Empire in 1917 Azerbaijan joined ranks with Armenia and Georgia to form the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic. Faced with the reality that [...]

Black January

January 20

Black January is the Azerbaijani term for the massacre of January 20, 1990. Every year since 1990, the people of Azerbaijan remember those who fell that day. They are called the January 20th Martyrs.

On that day Soviet troops stormed the capital city of Baku. Their supposed intent was to crack down [...]