A Very Cute and provocative photo of Princess Soraya in a French Magazine. (1960's)
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Hans Frank, “the butcher of Cracow” who became the governor of occupied Poland after 1939, describe Nazi Germany's intentions in the occupation of Ploand. Replace the word "Poland" with "
Palestinian Occupied Territories"
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Steven Spielberg has started shooting in Los Angeles the first adventures of the Tintin Trilogy this week. Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn will be the first 3-D motion-capture movie due in theaters in 2011.
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LIFE
I never forget the joy of walking around proudly sporting two rings of blue thread in my ears
The day had arrived. I was both excited and scared. An elaborate meal was being prepared in our huge kitchen. Our “receiving room”
(otaagh pazeeraee) had been swept and dusted and the doors to that wing of the house, usually closed during our daily life, had been left open, so I could see the beautiful red carpets and the elaborate furniture from where I was sitting. I could also see all the fruits and pastries arranged on the coffee tables, knowing full well that no one was to touch anything until the guests had arrived. Though this was one of my mother’s usual lunches with the women of our family, this was also a special day for me
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LIFE
Amidst the madness around us, the joys and the sorrows, sometimes it is soothing to read or write about something that is very personal and light. Two weeks ago, I was at the Philadelphia indoor food market where many vendors bring their produce and sell them at relatively low prices. Walking around I lost my Kafia, or let’s say someone picked it up after I dropped it. I felt really bad because I had had it for nearly thirty years; I had bought it in Iran and would wear it when going to meetings at Tehran University or around the corner at the many street gatherings, during the now long gone spring of freedom of 1979
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In the aftermath of his divorce from Soraya, the Shah was Romantically linked to Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy daughter of the deposed Italian king, Umberto II. Italian Tabloid La Domenica Del Corriere
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