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Frédéric Dard (Frédéric Charles Antoine Dard; 29 June 1921, in Bourgoin-Jallieu, Isère, France – 6 June 2000, in Bonnefontaine, Fribourg, Switzerland) [1] was a French crime writer. He wrote more than three hundred novels, plays and screenplays, under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms, including the San-Antonio book series.
Jean Dard (June 21, 1789 — October 1, 1833) was a French teacher in Saint-Louis, Senegal who, in 1817, opened the first French-language school in Africa. He also compiled the first French- Wolof dictionary and grammar (1846).
A translation of the first line of the poem was quoted by former U. S. President Barack Obama in a videotaped message to Iranians to mark Nowruz, the Persian New Year, on 20 March 2009. [1] The poem is also inscribed on a large hand-made carpet installed in 2005 [ 2 ] on the wall of a meeting room in the United Nations building in New York.
Dard was the Private Secretary to Khalifatul Masih II from 1920 to 1924 and accompanying him to Damascus, Palestine, Egypt, Italy and France ultimately reaching England on 22 August 1924 for the Wembley's Conference of Living Religions 1924, [17] [18] and was appointed as the missionary in Charge of the London Mission. [19]
Giani Hira Singh Dard (30 september 1889 – 22 June 1965) was a Punjabi journalist and writer. He had begun to write religious and patriotic poetry in his early youth under the pseudonym of "Dard". He had begun to write religious and patriotic poetry in his early youth under the pseudonym of "Dard".
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1888), subtitled A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, is the only complete English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights (the Arabian Nights) to date – a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (8th−13th centuries) – by ...
Dard people, an ethnic group mainly from Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan, Kashmir and Afghanistan; Dard (surname) Dard (river), a river of Jura, France; Dard Hunter, born William Joseph Hunter (1883–1966), American authority on printing, paper, and papermaking
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, KCMG, FRGS, (19 March 1821 – 20 October 1890) was a British explorer, army officer, orientalist writer and scholar. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was famed for his travels and explorations in Asia, Africa and South America, as well as his extensive knowledge of languages and cultures, speaking up to 29 different languages.