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lauriegene > Original 1915 kitchen. On the wall is the servants' bell board.
lauriegene > Original butler's pantry
lauriegene > The grounds between the gate and the tomb are divided into a four-square shape, with a long reflecting pool bisecting the two halves.
lauriegene > The afternoon of our arrival, we visited the Taj Mahal to watch the sunset. The tomb's luminous quality changes constantly as the light shifts. The Taj Mahal, built over a 22-year period as a tomb for the fifth Mughal's emperor's wife, stands amids acres of gardens on the Yamuna River in Agra. According to popular history, Shah Jahan, born in 1592, met Arjumand Banu, the daughter of his father's prime minister, at a bazaar when he was 14 and she was 15, when he was still Prince Khurram.
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