Word: persian
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...Imam, as Khomeini is now called, towers over Iran with all the power and prestige of Darius, one of the most famous of the pre-Islamic Persian kings. Khomeini's image is everywhere, painted in oils and hung in heavy frames in hotel lobbies and government buildings and vacant lots, and festooned in glossy photographs over thousands of martyrs' graves. Even his sayings are etched in brass and copper and hung in frames or daubed in paint on the sides of buildings. WHOEVER FIGHTS AGAINST THE TRUTH SHALL BE DEFEATED is one such framed homily, hanging in the baggage hall...
...existence of the Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library (kblibrary.nic.in), a small pink building in downtown Patna, the state capital, is a wonder in itself. Inside, you'll find 250,000 books and 21,000 manuscripts, some 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...
...existence of the Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library (kblibrary.nic.in), a small pink building in downtown Patna, the state capital, is a wonder in itself. Inside, you'll find 250,000 books and 21,000 manuscripts, some 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...
Three of these seniors, he says, have taken four years of Arabic, an unprecedented number given that the concentration, which includes Arabic, Islamic, Jewish, Turkish, and Persian studies, only requires two years of a primary language...
...half. If we increased the average fuel economy of our cars by a mere 8 miles per gallon, a far cry from the 50 miles per gallon efficiency increases that hybrids promise, we would no longer need to import any oil from the Persian Gulf...