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  2. Anita Desai - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] She received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978 for her novel Fire on the Mountain, from the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Literature. [4] She won the Guardian Prize for The Village by the Sea (1983). [5] Her other works include The Peacock, Voices in the City, Fire on the Mountain and an anthology of short stories, Games ...

  3. Peacock dance - Wikipedia

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    The peacock dance or peafowl dance is a traditional Asian folk dance that describes the beauty and the movement of peacocks.There are several peacock dance traditions developed in Asia, including the peacock dances of Myanmar, of the western and northern parts of Cambodia, of West Java in Indonesia, and of the Indian subcontinent in Southern India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and the Yunnan region ...

  4. Peacock Princess - Wikipedia

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    The Peacock Princess, also Kongque Gongzhu, is a folktale of the Dai people in China, [1] with shared origins with other similar tales found throughout Southeast Asia. [2] The tale is also considered to be a version of the international " swan maiden " narrative.

  5. Multiple choice - Wikipedia

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    Multiple choice questions lend themselves to the development of objective assessment items, but without author training, questions can be subjective in nature. Because this style of test does not require a teacher to interpret answers, test-takers are graded purely on their selections, creating a lower likelihood of teacher bias in the results. [8]

  6. Peacock Throne - Wikipedia

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    The Peacock Throne (Hindustani: Mayūrāsana, Sanskrit: मयूरासन, Urdu: تخت طاؤس, Persian: تخت طاووس, Takht-i Tāvūs) was the imperial throne of Hindustan. The throne is named after the dancing peacocks at its rear and was the seat of the Mughal emperors of India from 1635 to 1739.

  7. Prince Sobur - Wikipedia

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    The princess tells the maiden "Sabar karo" ("just wait"). Not knowing what it means, the servant leaves the palace, goes to another city and asks around for "Sabar karo". A shopkeeper sells her a golden box and she brings it back to her mistress. The princess opens the box and sees jewels, a looking-glass and at last a peacock feather fan.

  8. Girls5eva Premiere: Grade Peacock's Tina Fey-Produced ... - AOL

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    If you watched the premiere of Peacock’s new musical comedy Girls5eva, that means you likely have a certain catchy earworm stuck in your head which just might remain there 5eva. Created by ...

  9. Hindi literature - Wikipedia

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    Hindi literature (Hindi: हिंदी साहित्य, romanized: hindī sāhitya) includes literature in the various Central Indo-Aryan languages, also known as Hindi, some of which have different writing systems. Earliest forms of Hindi literature are attested in poetry of Apabhraṃśa such as Awadhi and Marwari.