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March 18, 2004
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Yazd, Iran
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1999
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Alexandra Avakian
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“Marco Polo called it the ‘good and noble’ city of Yazd, an ancient town where desert architects learned to cool buildings and even make ice by harnessing the wind. A 14th-century mosque still dominates Yazd’s oldest quarter.”
—From "Iran: Testing the Waters of Reform," July 1999, National Geographic magazine
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