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Three person chess..

Wonder how they deal with the middle.
The swirling lines are the diagonals, which works OK, but for going straight across, you would be seem to be going from a white to a white square or a black to a black square.
Not normal chess for sure!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-player_chess

Interesting for sure.

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Zion Nat'l Park

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Shibam is often called ?the oldest skyscraper city in the world? or ?the Manhattan of the Middle East?
and ?the Chicago of the desert?. It is one of the oldest and best examples of urban planning based on
the principle of vertical construction. The city has some of the tallest mud buildings in the world, with
some of them over 30 meters (100 feet) high, thus being early high-rise apartment buildings. In order
to protect the buildings from rain and erosion, the walls must be routinely maintained by applying
fresh layers of mud. (Wikipedia)

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Dust Storm, India, 1983, Steve McCurry

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City Hall and Hollywood Hills from East Los Angeles, 1945-49, Max Yavno

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