HERITAGE
Impact on Western science and medicine
The ancient world contained only a few countries that had any form of knowledge of medicine and science, the main were Egypt, Greece China, India and Rome. Iran had for its time a through knowledge of the sciences more than most countries. From the Achaemenid Empire to the late Sassanian Empire Iran has had an effect on the worlds understanding of science. Even the civilised world was influenced by Iran’s vast amount of understanding of the sciences. A few examples include the fact that the Greeks used the same form of building as the Iranians, the Romans attempted to create their own form of “Baghdad Battery” which was invented by the Parthians
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POETRY
Between the fifth and the sixth
I laugh my heart out,
surrounded by everyone
that I've ever loved.
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Castro gets sanctimonious in his old age, a handlebar-mustachioed hillbilly from the Florida backwater gains international attention, and Lady Gaga really makes us gag...
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جمهوری اسلامی “بد” است. اما اگر من هم یک شهروند ناراضی ایرانی هستم که فقط شکایت میکنم، این واقعیت را نادیده گرفتهام که جامعه و افراد سازنده یکدیگر هستند...
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After reading
The Greatest Sin, by
Fariba Amini, I decided to post this
English translation of a short poem by our beloved
Mowlana (Rumi) to hopefully put things in better perspective
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به خانه شد و خایه ببرید پست
بر او داغ و دارو نهاد و ببست
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Is history repeating itself just before Ahmadinejad's trip to New York?
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آهنگ زخم با صدای ستار که در فیلم مرد نا آرام با شرکت رضا بیک ایمانوردی در سال ۱۳۵۴ اجرا شده .
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