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"Free as a Bird" is a single released in December 1995 by English rock band the Beatles. The song was originally written and recorded in 1977 as a home demo by John Lennon . In 1995, 25 years after their break-up and 15 years after Lennon's murder , his then surviving bandmates Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr released a studio ...
A collection of postcards with paintings of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, by Indian artist M. V. Dhurandhar. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains ( rubāʿiyāt) attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048–1131), dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet of ...
Omar Sharif[ a ] ( Arabic: عمر الشريفEgyptian Arabic pronunciation: [ˈʕomɑɾ eʃʃɪˈɾiːf], born Michel Yusef Dimitri Chalhoub[ 1 ] [miˈʃel dɪˈmitɾi ʃælˈhuːb]; 10 April 1932 – 10 July 2015) was an Egyptian actor, generally regarded as one of his country's greatest male film stars. [ 6 ][ 7 ][ 8 ] He began his career in ...
Brandon Wright (season 1) Dante (seasons 2–3) Renaldo (seasons 4–5) Omar Devone Little is a fictional character on the HBO crime drama series The Wire, portrayed by Michael K. Williams. He is a notorious Baltimore stick-up man, who frequently robs street-level drug dealers.
v. t. e. Muṣʿab ibn ʿUmayr ( Arabic: مصعب بن عمير) also known as Muṣʿab al-Khayr ("the Good") [1] was a sahabi (companion) of Muhammad. From the Banū ʿAbd al-Dār branch of the Quraysh, he embraced Islam in 614 CE and was the first ambassador of Islam. [2] He died in the Battle of Uhud in 625 CE.
Omar / Umar / Omer is a masculine given name that has different origins in Arabic, Hebrew and German. Umar or Omar is a common name ( Arabic: عمر) in Arabic-speaking and Muslim populations in general. Omar is represented in Islamic traditions, meaning 'flourishing, long lived'.
The Ruba'i form of rhymed quatrain was favored by Persian-language poet Omar Khayyám, among others. This work was a major inspiration for Edward FitzGerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The ruba'i was a particularly widespread verse form: the form rubaiyat reflects the plural. One of FitzGerald's verses [7] may serve to illustrate:
Originally, the word vogelfrei merely meant "as free as a bird, not bound." That is the usage in a German source from 1455. Even Martin Luther (1483–1546) and Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531) used the term still in its original meaning.