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...According to Parva Namiranian, a Zoroastrian medical student at Tehran University, the community in Iran preserves its identity by learning the Persian poetry of the Shah Nameh and holding religious classes and celebrations. She says Zoroastrians are accepted in Iran because they "represent a proud history" and all Iranians, regardless of religion, enjoy celebrating the Zoroastrian New Year, Nowruz, because it's an excuse to buy clothes and eat sweets. Mehraban Firouzgary, the head priest in the Zoroastrian temple in Tehran, agrees that most Iranians regard the Zoroastrian minority favorably, but he worries about the community's survival. "Zoroastrians have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last of the Zoroastrians | 12/9/2008 | See Source »

...terrible mistake, all right, sending a well-meaning ninny like Sellers to take over the parish of Orbiston Parva, home of the great three-in-one restorative, Tranquilax ("A sedative! A stimulant! A laxative!"). Everyone is outraged by the, new vicar's unfashionably golden-rule outlook except a profane and prolific family of Smiths. When the Tranquilax interests toss the Smiths out of the meadow where they have been squatting in grapes-of-wrath raunchiness. Sellers invites them to come live in the vicarage-goat and all. Soon he is up to his bicycle clips in holy hot water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: God's Simpleton | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

...Britain's most resounding titles, which for sheer euphony tops that of many a noble duke and earl, is held by the Lord of the Manor of Circum cum Wilcocks alias Fransham Parva in the parish of Little Fransham. Last week, along with 26 other manorial lordships, it was knocked down at auction for a paltry $924. At the same auction, London Bookseller William Alfred Foyle bought himself five lordships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Lords for Sale | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

Nune valete, quoniam odimus scribere in Latino, id est ita fatigans. Habemus quoque premens engagementum cras ad Nevem Emporium, antiquam urbem Romanorum prope hoc. Sed cogitavimus ut debemus ostentare ad vos quomodo faciliter possumus exsecare nostrum Publicnm Oratorem, qui non cogi???a parva tubera sui styli Latini. Nostri respectus ad LOWELLUM qui est unum de nosfris D.C.L's, et circa optimum, ut credimus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An International Episode. | 12/21/1886 | See Source »

Scisne? Die, Parcae veteres, tu parva...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FROM THE FRENCH. | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

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