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Word: jewellers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Long Day's Journey. At 3:20 p.m., Farah, dressed in her 33-lb., jewel-encrusted, mink-hemmed Dior wedding gown, descended the staircase of her home for the last time, stepped to a cage and set free 150 nightingales, a ritual she preferred to the usual symbolic slaughter of lambs all over the countryside. As she walked through the front door, her mother held over her head a mirror and the Koran as a symbol of the long journey she was about to take. Finally, escorted by a troop of Imperial Lancers, Farah was driven in a Rolls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: The Shah Takes a Bride | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

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