I also used http://www.mybrochuremaker.com/ This is an online design software for brochures, news prints, sell sheets, business cards and so on. While am sure I can do these projects on desktop publishing software, like Publisher, QuarkXpress or Adobe Indesign, these applications are usually very expensive to buy.
I also like the fact that mybrochuremaker has free services. I made the following news print on Timbuktu as my blogging idea for the week.
Ever heard of the phrase, “from Timbuktu to Kalamazoo” that’s used to demonstrate how remote a location is? I will go on a limb here and say that you have. Anyway, Kalamazoo is a city in the state of Michigan, United States of America while Timbuktu is a small town in Northern Mali, Africa; it borders Mauritania to the west, Algeria in the North, Niger in the east, and Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso in the south.
But Timbuktu is not just a “faraway place that you cannot get to from here,” as used in 19th century English literature by writers such as Lady Duff-Gordon, DH Lawrence, Agatha Christie, just to name a few; it is an ancient city and of historical importance. Timbuktu was once a prominent center for important trading routes in salt, gold, ivory, and other products including slaves, during the 14th through much of the 16th century.
As an ancient wealthy city, Timbuktu has been a source of significant archeological finds of artifacts and information about the Iron Age’s cultural landscape. At one point, Timbuktu was home to 120 libraries; it is believed that about 14,000 books have been recovered – books on old science in Arabic and some other unknown languages.
Today however, Timbuktu is an impoverished dusty down that has seen its share of hard times compounded by its location in the southern edge of the Sahara desert. Furthermore, as recent as April of 2012, the power struggle in Mali has seen this “historical jewel” fall into the hands of Tuareg rebels. My only hope is that sanity can be restored for the sake of human rights and historical records.
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