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...state for 50 years. At least 160 people died in flash floods and mudslides in northern Pakistan, caused by record rains - 60 cm fell in Islamabad in one day. Iran, too, suffered death and destruction, with some 30 people perishing as torrential rain and hailstorms struck Ardebil province in the northwest. INDONESIA The Long Goodbye Defiant to the end, ousted leader Abdurrahman Wahid finally quit the presidential palace on Thursday, four days after the National Assembly voted him out of office on charges of corruption and incompetence. Once the Assembly removed Wahid as President, Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri was sworn...
...Burlington House, Jan. 5 to March 1, 1931. He went further and did what no Persian monarch before him dreamed of doing: gave official sanction for the Exhibition's experts to select loan exhibits from the Royal collection, Imperial Library, National Museum, the famed mosques of Kum, Ardebil and Mashad's Imam Reiza...
Scarcely less famed is the Ardebil carpet, now in London's Victoria & Albert Museum. A body of rich blue with delicate floral tracery surrounds a centre medallion of yellow. Sixteen minaret-shaped points lead to 16 red, gold, and green cartouches. Sacred mosque lamps hang from two of them...
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