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  2. Divan (furniture) - Wikipedia

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    A divan (Turkish divan, Hindi deevaan originally from Kurdish [1] devan) is a piece of couch-like sitting furniture or, in some regions, a box-spring-based bed. Primarily, in the Middle East (especially the Ottoman Empire ), a divan was a long seat formed of a mattress laid against the side of the room, upon the floor, or a raised structure or ...

  3. Argos (retailer) - Wikipedia

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    Argos was launched with thousands of staff, taking £1 million during a week in November. [10] Argos was purchased by BAT Industries in 1979 for £32 million. In 1980, Argos opened its Elizabeth Duke jewellery counter (named after a director's wife) and by 1982, was the United Kingdom's fourth-biggest jewellery retailer.

  4. Canopus in Argos - Wikipedia

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    Canopus in Argos: Archives is a sequence of five science fiction novels by Nobel laureate author Doris Lessing, which portray a number of societies at different stages of development, over a great period of time.

  5. Corduroy (book) - Wikipedia

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    Corduroy admires the furniture and crawls onto a mattress on one of the beds. Meanwhile, he sees something small and round. Thinking that one of the mattress buttons is the one he is missing, he pulls hard on it and eventually topples from the bed, knocking over a lamp .

  6. Argos (dog) - Wikipedia

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    The appearance of Argos begins a series of anagnorises, and is the only anagnorisis in the Odyssey where two characters recognize each other immediately and simultaneously. [22] Argos is the only member of Odysseus's household to recognize him without divine assistance or evidence provided by Odysseus himself.

  7. West–östlicher Divan - Wikipedia

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    West–östlicher Divan (German: [ˈvɛst ˈœstlɪçɐ ˈdiːvaːn] ⓘ; West–Eastern Diwan) is a diwan, or collection of lyrical poems, by the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It was inspired by Goethe's readings of the Persian national poet Hafez .

  8. Argus (album) - Wikipedia

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    Argus was released on vinyl record on 28 April 1972. [2] [9] [10] It was later released on CD in 2002, featuring a remix (by Martin Turner) of the original album as well as the three live tracks from the EP Live from Memphis promotional EP, recorded in the studios of WMC-FM.

  9. The Divān of Hafez - Wikipedia

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    The Divān of Hafez (Persian: دیوان حافظ) is a collection of poems written by the Iranian poet Hafez.Most of these poems are in Persian, but there are some macaronic language poems (in Persian and Arabic) and a completely Arabic ghazal.