Re: Mac Mini Baku
Laverne Levenstein
The Baku Museum of Miniature Books is the only museum of miniature books in the world, settled in the old part of Baku, called Inner City.[1] The museum started its operation on April 2, 2002. In 2015, the Museum of Miniature Books was presented the Certificate of the Guinness Book of Records as the largest private museum of miniature books.[2]
Exhibits in the museum were collected by Zarifa Salahova (the sister of Tahir Salahov) over a period of 30 years. Her collection consists of more than 6500 books from 64 different countries.[3] The museum was opened to public viewing with the hope of promoting childhood literacy.[4]
There are books in the exposition from several countries, including Moldavia, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus and from the republics of Middle Asia and Europe. There are many rare editions, including those of Chukovsky, Barto, Gogol, Dostoyevsky, and works of A.S.Pushkin.[5] Miniature books of the famous Azerbaijani classics, such as Vagif, Khurshidbanu Natavan, Nizami Ganjavi, Nasimi, Fizuli, Samed Vurgun, Mirza Fatali Akhundov and others are exhibited in the museum.
Visitors can also see rare ancient religious books in the museum, aged over 100 years. The most ancient book is the Qur'an which was published in Saudi Arabia in 1672. Furthermore, there is a miniature book which consists of the songs of the Beatles. New publications are regularly added to the collection in the museum.[6]
The museum consists of 15 sections such as "International", "Baltic countries", "Smallest", "Azerbaijani authors", "Soviet era", "Oldest", "Children's", "Pushkin", "Central Asia", etc. There are 25 glazed exhibition cases in the museum.
Most of the books in the Azerbaijan section are about the country's present and former presidents. There are also miniature books dedicated to the life of former USA president Barack Obama and Turkish nationalist leader Mustafa Kemal Atatrk.
This category also includes the books about the visits of heads of different states to Azerbaijan. As well as miniature books for children in Azerbaijani language are also exhibited in the museum. The museum also has a separate section on Russian literature.
The world's three smallest books with size of 2mm x 2mm each that can only be read with the use of a magnifying glass which were published by "Toppan Publishing House" are also exhibited in the Baku Museum of Miniature Books: The language of flowers, Birthstone, and The signs of the Zodiac. These books were published in 1978 in Tokyo.
"The most miraculous thing" is the only book in the museum includes into the category containing miniature book with size of 6mm x 9mm. The book is published in Moscow in 1985. The book contains the Mxim Gorki's and Pushkin's works. It has been translated into 4 languages: Italian, German, French and English.
Ganja Branch of Museum of Miniature Books was opened on May 21, 2016. There are more than 1045 copies of miniature books published in various countries. The exposition also includes books in Russian, Turkish, English, German, Arabic, Georgian and other languages.
Just how small can someone write? In 1929 North Dakotan James Zaharee covered a postage stamp with his name and the alphabet written thirty times each, plus the Gettysburg address written eighteen times. Ten years later, he put down the entire Declaration of Independence, including all fifty-six signatories and thirteen colonies, on a grain of rice. Of course, he could read a newspaper from eight feet and peddled his penning skill in a traveling circus.
One case holds a display of physical artworks submitted by global artists in response to being asked what minibooks mean to them. Among the interpretations are an accordioning fold of gilded paper, a silver crab claw inside an oyster shell, and, tellingly, a pair of thumbscrews.
J. R. Patterson was born on a cattle and grain farm in rural Manitoba, Canada. He has worked as a farm laborer, factory worker, and writer. He has written for a variety of international publications, including National Geographic, Literary Review of Canada, and the LARB.
The March 2022 issue of World Literature Today foregrounds New African Voices in a cover feature, guest-edited and introduced by Mahtem Shiferraw, poetry, fiction, and essays from Australia, Denmark, Greece, and Mexico; + reviews of 30 outstanding new books from all over the world, plus recommended collections of letters and memoirs in translation.
The tiny library of books ins the museum is the result of the private collection of Zarifa Salahova, and has been amassed over the period of more than 30 years. In 2002, when she opened the museum, she finally shared her collection with the public. A large portion of the books also stem from the donation of a Ukrainian collector, who presented his petite books to Salahova in 2001.
Salahova, herself a dedicated bibliophile, opened the museum to motivate the next generation of readers to engage with reading and literature. She has also published a few miniature books herself, including the Constitution of Azerbaijan, which is also on display in the museum.
Secondly, some mini booksgave by friends, colleagues, collectors, publishers. The important role played also that in 1985, I myself began publishing miniature books and share with collectors from other regions of the former Soviet Union and abroad. So, in 37 years of work in the community of book lovers I issued 250 mini books devoted to the outstanding politicians, figures odliterature, science, art and sport, not only in Azerbaijan but also in other countries.
Mongolia's ruling party emerged from this week's polls with its parliamentary majority significantly diminished Saturday, local media said, after a campaign dominated by graft fears and the state of the economy.
Bronny James, the 19-year-old son of Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James, was selected 55th overall by the Lakers in Thursday's second round of the NBA Draft, setting up the first father-son combination in NBA history.
Azerbaijan hosts the largest concentration of mud volcanoes (MVs) on Earth. Here, high sedimentation rates and deposition of thick organic-rich series resulted in petroleum basin formation and, in turn, created the ideal setting and conditions to generate widespread sedimentary volcanism. Some of the regions hosting these piercements have been broadly studied, while others (e.g. the Shamakhy-Gobustan region) are less explored. In this seismically more active part of the country, the tectonic control plays a stronger role for the emplacement of diapirs and fluid migration.
Here we report a multidisciplinary study conducted on a set of six MVs (Kichik Maraza, Gizmeydan, Gushchu, Malikchobanly, Madrasa and Shikhzairli) located in the Gobustan-Shamakhy region and combine satellite image interpretation with field observations, gas sampling, CH4 and CO2 flux measurements. The studied MVs are generally hosted by anticline axes intersected by fault structures that facilitate the migration of fluids. The resulting surface morphologies include elongated (Kichik Maraza, Malikchobanly MVs) or pie-shaped (Gizmeydan, Gushchu, Shikhzairli MVs). One MV does not show an edifice and is positioned along a laterally extensive fault wall (Madrasa). Morphologies vary depending on the setting, the type of erupted mud breccia and/or the diameter of the conduit. Some of these MVs are characterized by scattered pools and gryphons where gas, water, mud and oil are released. These focused emissions are typically concentrated in the crater area (Little Kichik Maraza, Gizmeydan, Malikchobanly MVs). MVs that recently erupted can display limited or no visual gas release features (like pools or developed gryphons) since these were destroyed by erupted mud breccia flows (Big Kichik Maraza, Gushchu, Shikhzairli MVs). Copious amount of dense oil was observed at numerous gryphons of Madrasa MV. Gas analyses revealed that all the sampled seeps release methane-dominated gas that has a thermogenic origin. Molecular fractionation of this gas occurs during the vertical migration from the reservoirs. Evidence of secondary microbial methane and biodegradation is also observed at some of the seepage sites.
The conducted flux measurements were carried out over the crater and the flanks of the MVs targeting the diffused miniseepage (the invisible degassing that typically occurs over vast areas at and around MV craters) and individual seepage sites (e.g. pools or gryphons). Significant degassing was detected at all the investigated structures, also at those that did not display obvious visual seepage. Results show that these MVs release in average similar CH4 Tg yr-1 like most of the other structures in Azerbaijan and one order of magnitude higher than many MV on Earth. CH4 emissions reach up to 64 tonnes yr-1 (Kichik Maraza MV) and CO2 up to 20 tonnes yr-1 (Gizmeydan MV).
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