Word: indigo
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...dating back a millennium. The number and quality of Arabic and Persian manuscripts is unsurpassed in Asia, and it is all the result of the collecting passion of a late 19th century noble, Khuda Bakhsh. Priceless treasures include the only existing copy of a history?illustrated in gold and indigo?of the Uzbek Emperor Tamerlane, whose dominions once stretched from Baghdad to Bengal. There are 500-year-old Sanskrit scriptures inscribed on palm leaves, Korans 25 mm wide (written so the verses form the shapes of animals) and, in the margins of verses by the poet Hafiz, annotations...
...dating back a millennium. The number and quality of Arabic and Persian manuscripts is unsurpassed in Asia, and it is all the result of the collecting passion of a late 19th century noble, Khuda Bakhsh. Priceless treasures include the only existing copy of a history - illustrated in gold and indigo - of the Uzbek Emperor Tamerlane, whose dominions once stretched from Baghdad to Bengal. There are 500-year-old Sanskrit scriptures inscribed on palm leaves, Korans 25 mm wide (written so the verses form the shapes of animals) and, in the margins of verses by the poet Hafiz, annotations...
Given the buzz the band’s music alone has produced (radio stations as far away as Italy have given extensive play to their album), it seems like whipping out the H-Bomb would be superfluous at best. Indigo Girl Amy Ray was so taken with the band’s sound, upon hearing their debut album “Presenting the Great Unknowns” (released in December 2004) she almost immediately had them signed to her label, Daemon Records...
...fact, the band just finished a national tour with the Indigo Girls, an experience which Guvench describes as “awesome,” especially when the Girls invited the Great Unknowns onstage to join them for their song “Cold Beer and a Remote...
Polenzani gave a copy of the album to the owner of her label, Daemon Records—who happened to be Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls. The disc was a burned copy of the recently finished master disc. “Mike’s cell phone number [was] written on the top in a Sharpie,” Warren nostalgically recalls...