heidi brown
Canada
TakingITGlobal has helped me by giving me pointers in their “Take Action” section on getting involved in the issues and areas that are most important to me. This site is a powerful tool and it’s success has demonstrated the hard work and commitment of people who care about the issues affecting our world and who are working together to rid the world of some of the bad things that are going on. ( read more)
Saladin
United Kingdom
I am very inspired by proactive people. Proactive people are those who have the ability to carry out intercultural initiatives, that serve in building bridges between the world's civilizations. Proactive people are fundamentally different than reactive people, whose actions are not more than a mere response to someone's action. ( read more)
Osaretin | 25
Nigeria
No man is permitted to leave any person he has related with in the same way that he met him. He either affects him positively or negatively, mars him or makes him. Friendship and relationships inspire me knowing that if I make the right friends or relate with people with similar interest, great minds with visions to make the world a better place will meet. I, in my own uniquness as God made me, will be able to impact my generation and lift humanity higher.
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Cordoba's period of greatest glory began in the 8th century after the Moorish conquest, when some 300 mosques and innumerable palaces and public buildings were built to rival the splendours of Constantinople, Damascus and Baghdad. In the 13th century, under Ferdinand III, the Saint, Cordoba's Great Mosque was turned into a cathedral and new defensive structures, particularly the Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos and the Torre Fortaleza de la Calahorra, were erected.
