is Jackson Carney, 7, who helped the man at right bring in this large barracuda off the south jetty at Haulover. Jackson is the son of a friend of ours. That is one of the small privileges of bloggery: Throwing in a personal photo on occasion.

RICKY MARTIN: Always suspected he was gay. But then when he revealed he was, I found myself not giving even half a crap.Shahnamh - Epic of the Persian Kings by

The Shahnameh or The Epic of Kings is one of the definite classics of the world. It tells hero tales of ancient Persia.
The contents and the poet's style in describing the events takes the readers back to the ancient times and makes
he/she sense and feel the events. Ferdowsi worked for thirty years to finish this masterpiece.

An important feature of this work is that during the period that Arabic language was known as the main language of science
and literature, Ferdowsi used only Persian in his masterpiece. As Ferdowsi himself says "Persian language
is revived by this work".

The harmony
between the language and style of speech and the subjects of epics.

The eloquence
and simplicity of the language.

Preservation of
many old Persian words.

The great
epic poet of Iran came