﻿MODERN 
  LIFE 
  IN 
  THE 
  CRADLE 
  OF 
  CIVILIZATION 
  

  

  

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  Photograph 
  by 
  Eric 
  Keast 
  Burke 
  

  

  A 
  FRIENDLY 
  STORK 
  AND 
  IMS 
  GIFT 
  TO 
  A 
  MESOPOTAMIAN 
  FAMILY 
  

   Storks 
  arc 
  regarded 
  with 
  as 
  much 
  favor 
  in 
  the 
  East 
  as 
  in 
  parts 
  of 
  northern 
  Europe, 
  and 
  their 
  enormous 
  nests 
  

   arc 
  a 
  familiar 
  feature 
  of 
  the 
  landscape, 
  particularly 
  in 
  the 
  villages 
  of 
  the 
  Kurdish 
  foothills. 
  Good 
  luck 
  is 
  supposed 
  to 
  

   visit 
  the 
  house 
  chosen 
  by 
  the 
  stork 
  as 
  a 
  nesting 
  place. 
  In 
  Turkestan, 
  the 
  storks 
  nest 
  on 
  the 
  domes 
  of 
  mosques 
  as 
  

   well 
  as 
  on 
  the 
  roofs 
  of 
  dwellings. 
  

  

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