Amendments and additions – most recent first

On the first page of this site I wrote that there are likely to be continual changes as these notes are added to and the pages developed over time. Looking at other sites I’ve found I have a problem discovering what has changed since my last visit so, in an attempt to track what I’ve changed myself, I’ll make a determined attempt to keep this up to date by using this page to record each change. Please remember that these are my personal notes and are not essays, as they might often appear.

However, although each reference will take you to the actual comment, when there is more than one change on a single page you will be taken only to that page and will then have to look down for the amendment or addition.

The latest additions and amendments to any of the pages will be marked by a pale blue background – as in this paragraph. I hope this will be sufficient to mark changes and be relatively easily seen.

Date	Reference	Description
2025.04.22	Islamic urban design 01	An illustrated note on the the Education City manaratain masjid has been added.
2025.04.15	Population	The State has not published its population statistics in the same format since August 2024, however they have published summaries up to November 2024 which are updated here.
2025.04.14	Perception	An illustration with accompanying description has been added relating to Hokusai’s Great Wave.
2025.04.09	Islamic urban design 02	An illustrated note on the General Directorate of Passports at Wadi al-Banat, Duhail, has been added.
2025.04.05	Islamic urban design 02	An illustrated note on the Traffic Department Headquarters at Medinat Khalifa has been added.
2025.04.03	Islamic urban design 02	A note on the new Ministry of the Interior has been amended.
2025.03.31	Population	A brief note on the missing Qatar population statistics has been added.
2025.03.27	Introduction	A number of notes and images have been added to the first page of the notes on my family in the First World War.
2025.03.21	Gulf architecture 02	An image has been added showing a number of deserted dwellings with pitched roofs.
2025.03.12	Islamic urban design 01	A note on issues relating to women and children in masaajid has been added.
2025.03.05	Islamic urban design 01 Glossary	An illustrated note on the Qassim bin Muhammad al-Thani masjid has been added together with words to the glossary.
2025.03.04	Introduction Resources	Two images have been added to the note on Harry Leonard John Cassini, and a book title added to the resources page.
2025.03.02	Design studies	Another example of an Islamic pattern has been added to the graphic studies page.
2025.03.01	Gulf architecture 05	An illustrated note on the design of a naqsh panel on the Qassim bin Muhammad al-Thani masjid has been added.
2025.02.28	Islamic urban design 01 Glossary	A number of amendments and additions have been made to the notes on masaajid in Qatar, and a word added to the glossary.
2025.02.26	Islamic urban design 01	A note has been posted on the design of masaajid.
2025.02.24	Society 04	Two images have been added of travelling salesmen at the doorways of old houses.
2025.02.22	Old Qatar 01 Old Qatar 01	Two photographs taken in the 1960s have been added showing the entrance to the Guest Palace and the fort at Zubara.
2025.02.21	Design studies	An example of an Islamic pattern has been added to the graphic studies page.
2025.02.17	Joseph Cassini Introduction	The site map has been brought up to date with the addition of a link to the page for Joseph Cassini, and two maps on the Bullecourt introduction have been revised.
2025.02.15	Old Qatar 01	A photograph of the Guest Palace garden at Rumeillah in the 1960s has been added.
2025.02.14	Introduction	A photograph has been added and the accompanying note amended accordingly.
2025.02.13	Introduction	A photograph has been added together with small alterations to text relating to Bullecourt.
2025.02.12	Joseph and Susanna Cassini Introduction	A number of additions have been made throught the note, and a small addition made to the dating of an article written during WW1 on Bullecourt.
2025.02.06	Joseph and Susanna Cassini	A new page of notes has been introduced for Joseph and Susanna Cassini and their family.
2025.01.31	France and the defence of England Cassini and Maraldi references	A note on the events in Naples at the end of the Eighteenth century together with a reference, have been added.
2025.01.27	Graphic design	Three congratulationary card designs have been added to an animated image.
2025.01.25	Arabic / Islamic geometry 02	The note discussing a geometric pattern on a flank wall in the Great masjid at Herat, Afghanistan has been expanded.
2025.01.20	Arabic / Islamic geometry 02	A note has been started on a geometric pattern on a flank wall in the Great masjid at Herat, Afghanistan.
2025.01.10	Perception	Amendments and additions have been made to a note on Japanese perception of space.
2025.01.06	Gulf architecture 02	An amendment has been made relating to the roofing of simple rooms.
2025.01.01	Perception Population">	A note on the subject of comparative Japanese perception of space has been started, and a comment on Qatar’s population statistics added.