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Iblees Ki Majlis-e-Shura. " Iblees Ki Majlis-e-Shura " (English: The Parliament of Satan) is an Urdu poem written by Muhammad Iqbal in 1936. It describes the meeting of the Devil and his advisers, and they discuss the current situation of the world. It was described as "a scathing criticism of the major socio-political and economic systems ...
Punch Bowl Farm, at the northern end of the Devil's Punch Bowl, was the home of children's novelist Monica Edwards from 1947 until 1998. In her books she renamed the farm Punchbowl Farm. [16] [17] In Charles Dickens' novel Nicholas Nickleby, Nicholas and Smike visit the Devil's Punch Bowl on their journey to Portsmouth. [18]
Description. In order to house the large numbers of formerly-enslaved African Americans, the Union Army created a refugee camp for them at a location known as the Devil's Punchbowl, a natural pit surrounded by bluffs. Many of the formerly enslaved there died of starvation, smallpox, and other diseases. [ 1]
Social media videos and blog posts periodically describe a story of a heinous concentration camp made up of newly freed African Americans along the Mississippi Delta in the 1860s. Historians ...
The Codex Gigas opened to the page with the distinctive portrait of the Devil from which the text received its byname, the Devil's Bible. The Codex Gigas ("Giant Book"; Czech: Obří kniha) is the largest extant medieval illuminated manuscript in the world, at a length of 92 cm (36 in). [ 1] It is a Romanesque Latin Bible, with other texts ...
The Unknown Sailorwas an anonymous seafarer murdered in September 1786 at Hindheadin Surrey, England. His murderers were hanged in chains on Gibbet Hill, Hindheadthe following year. Murder. [edit] The Unknown Sailor is first recorded as visiting the Red Lion Innat Thursleyas he was walking back from Londonto join his ship at Portsmouthon 24 ...
Ishtiaq Ahmad (اﺸﺘﻴﺎﻖ اﺤﻤﺩ in Urdu ), (1944 – 17 November 2015) was a Pakistani fiction writer famous for his spy and detective novels in the Urdu language, particularly the Inspector Jamshaid series. He was born in Karnal now in India. Then his family migrated to city Jhang in Pakistan. [3] He started his career by writing ...
Progressive Writers' Movement. Shaukat Siddiqi ( Urdu: شوکت صدیقی; 20 March 1923 – 18 December 2006) was a Pakistani writer of fiction who wrote in Urdu language. He is best known for his novels Khuda Ki Basti ( God's Village) and Jangloos.