Narrated by Lord of the Rings star, Viggo Mortenson, this video retells in the first-person, world-renown American historian, political commentator and activist, Howard Zinn's political awakening
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The technique of namad mali (felt beating) is a very primitive craft dating back to early man
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در فضای مأیوسكننده سیاسی ایران تنها نقطه كورسویی كه وجود دارد، جنبش جامعه مدنی است: جنبشی كه زیر ضربات شدید و بیرحمانه عوامل حاكمیت قرار گرفته است. محكومیتهای عبدی و كبودوند نشانهای از شدت این سركوب است.
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It’s only been 2 working days since I officially resigned and some how it feels like a whole year. That’s a side of working I will never miss, my days are slower and I have time to do so many things
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هدف از درج این بیان دعوت به ابراز عقیده شماست و ایا اینکه این دو نیروی محرک در زندگی بشری میتوانند با هم همخوانی داشته باشند و یا اینکه میبایستی بین این دو انتخاب کرد؟
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When two beloveds
Pact between their hearts
Put at sheer stake,
My hear would break.
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This morning I woke up at and the very first thought was “I’m late”, then it hit me “I’m not late”
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HERITAGE
Legal dance on Persepolis artifacts continues
by Arash Hadjialiloo
For the past few months, the legal proceedings surrounding the sale of Persian artifacts on loan to American museums and universities had remained mostly dormant. That is, until, revelations occurred on three separate fronts of the issue. In the case of the Northern Illinois case Rubin et al. v IRI, two very separate developments have occurred. On March 29, new plaintiffs emerged seeking the clay tablets from Persepolis which are already targeted by the victims of a 1997 Jerusalem attack, Rubin et al. these additional plaintiffs want to lay claim to the artifacts so as to sell them and receive payment for a $2.7 billion decision in their favor
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STAMP
Poland commemorates her refugees in Iran
The Polish Postal Service has commemorated the role Isfahan played during World War 2 in caring for Polish orphans. The new stamp, "Isfahan - the City of Polish Children", went on sale earlier this month. It depicts a pupil at School No. 15 near Isfahan (Stanislaw Stojakowski), standing in front of a Persian carpet woven at the city's Carpet School in 1944. In 1942, Isfahan housed thousands of Polish orphans released from the Soviet work camps of Siberia and Kazakhstan
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