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  2. Shirazi Turk - Wikipedia

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    Shirazi Turk is a ghazal (love poem) by the 14th-century Persian poet, Hāfez of Shiraz. It has been described as "the most familiar of Hafez's poems in the English-speaking world". [ 1 ] It was the first poem of Hafez to appear in English , [ 2 ] when William Jones made his paraphrase "A Persian Song" in 1771, based on a Latin version supplied ...

  3. Khosrow and Shirin - Wikipedia

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    Khosrow Parviz's first sight of Shirin, bathing in a pool, in a manuscript of Nezami's poem. This is a famous moment in Persian literature. The Sasanian shah Khosraw and Courtiers in a Garden, Page from a manuscript of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, late 15th-early 16th century.

  4. List of English words of Persian origin - Wikipedia

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    from Persian فرغانه Ferghana. a region in Central Asia. a usually small heavy Persian rug chiefly of cotton having usually a web and a fringed end, a deep blue or rose field with an all over herati sometimes guli hinnai design and a main border with a turtle design, and being highly prized if antique. [121] Feringhee

  5. 32 reasons to love Persian cats

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    A Persian cat’s luxuriant coat, affectionate personality, and smoochy face make them the feline favorites of plenty of celebs, including the likes of Marilyn Munroe, Jennifer Lopez, and Kim ...

  6. Physical attractiveness - Wikipedia

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    Ishtar, Mesopotamian goddess of sexual love and war. The goddess has been associated with sexuality, love, and fertility. [5] [6] [7] Xi Shi (西施), born 506 BC, was one of the Four Great Beauties of ancient China. [8] Physical attractiveness is the degree to which a person's physical features are considered aesthetically pleasing or beautiful.

  7. Farhad (Persian literature) - Wikipedia

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    Farhad is a sculptor who falls in love with Shirin, the princess of Persian Armenia.But Shirin is already in love with Khosrow Parviz, the king of Persia.Khosrow asks Farhad to carve a staircase in a mountain and tells him if he manages to do so, Khosrow will give up Shirin.

  8. Culture of Iran - Wikipedia

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    The use of this document as a check was in use from Achaemenid time to the end of Sassanian Empire. The word of [Bonchaq, or Bonchagh] in modern Persian language is new version of old Avestan and Pahlavi language "check". In Persian, it means a document which resembles money value for gold, silver and property.

  9. 100 Unsolved True Crime Cases That Are Not For The Faint-Hearted

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    Image credits: CommonTaytor #3. Roopkund lake. A small lake up in some mountains in India with a lot of human skeletons in it. Not only that, but the skeletons seems to have come from at least two ...