Word: dahak
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...Kurdish New Year, Nawroz, is the mythical date of the defeat of the evil king Dahak. The holiday was on March 21 but in the northern Iraqi village of Barda Rash, they had it again today. "Nawroz means the end of a tyrannical king," said Khasro Kadir, who organized the celebration. "For us it's the end of Saddam's tyranny." For 12 years the village has been directly on the front lines between Iraqi forces and the peshmerga guarding Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq. Today they sang and danced around the traditional Nawroz fire, 20 days late...
...born in Santiniketan, India, in 1933. His mother, Amita Sen, was a top student with Rabindranath Tagore, the great educator and cultural leader. His father, Ashutosh Sen, taught chemistry at Dahak University, in what is now the capital of Bangladesh...
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