<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2d20f1c6-4160-43be-b1dc-93a2532080c0/E61C9CB1-8B13-4952-88F0-5A9B8AD6BFCB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://curiousexpeditions.org/?p=815" href="http://curiousexpeditions.org/?p=815" style="font-size: 11px;">curiousexpeditions.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://curiousexpeditions.org/?p=815"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/curiousexpeditions.org/img/48EF1AF4-DD5A-47BF-9BB0-8E7BDB2AE908" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://curiousexpeditions.org/?p=815"><P>Ben Hall of England writes</p> <P><EM>“I come to you with a puzzle. I found this photo in an antique market here in England. Have you any idea of the identity of this building? I can’t find anything like it in Britain. It appears to a defensive cylindrical fort with later more decorative additions. The spires and pointed merlons suggest Indian or Moorish influence, but the bow windows look European. British ‘saracenic’ architecture in India has been suggested, but that was a later 19<SUP>th</SUP> century development of palaces and large public buildings. Venetian? Turkish? Russian? “</EM></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://curiousexpeditions.org/?p=815"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/curiousexpeditions.org/img/298198C1-0910-4FD6-B13C-48EE0CA501DD" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://curiousexpeditions.org/?p=815">Mr. Hall has highlighted some important elements here, better then anything we could do here at Curious Expeditions. One: the fort is rounded. Two: the fort has spires/onion domes. Three: The original part of the fort has those swoopy bits on top that look simultaneously Russian/Moorish/Indian. Another clue, is the style of clothing and tents which I am wholly unprepared to interpret.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E61C9CB1-8B13-4952-88F0-5A9B8AD6BFCB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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