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FEATURE: [pounds sterling]1.13m effort to remember Octavia Hill.
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WISBECH's role in history as a birthplace of social change was secured by Octavia Hill, a key figure in a revolution that waged war on deprivation and poverty.
Tireless campaigner Octavia was born in South Brink in 1838 in a house that is now a museum and monument to her achievements.
Now the Octavia Hill Birthplace House trust is campaigning to raise enough money to acquire another part of the building, which was divided after the Hill family left, to expand the shrine to a woman who almost certainly saved thousands of lives by transforming abject living ...
 "Mehr News Agency (MNA)")
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Sassanid site bulldozed in southwestern Iran.
News Wire article from: Mehr News Agency (MNA)
; destroyed part of a Sassanid tepe last week near Ahvaz, the provincial capital of Khuzestan...visited the mound, believe that beneath the tepe, the ruins of a Sassanid city are buried, Gahestuni said. 2003-2005 Mehr News Agency Provided...
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Greek style architecture found in ancient Iranian City
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times
; ...by Greek architecture dating to the Sassanid era. According to a report by CHN...Achaemenid city of Istakhr during the Sassanid period (226-651 CE). Istakhr was once the capital of the Sassanid Empire but today only the archaeological...
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Structures inspired by ancient Greek architecture found in Iran
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times
; ...inspired by Greek architecture dating to the Sassanid era. According to a report in Press...Achaemenid city of Istakhr during the Sassanid period (226-651 CE). "The design...shapes. "The wars during the first two Sassanid kings, Ardashir I (206-241 CE) and...
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The encounter of Zoroastrianism with Islam.
Magazine article from: Philosophy East and West
; ...the status of official religion in the Sassanid empire (224-651), Zoroastrian teaching...the Arab world to include the lands of Sassanid Iran. In 635 Muslim forces won a decisive...In 637 they seized the capital of the Sassanid state, Ktesiphon. It took almost fifteen...
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New evidence confirms antiquity of 'Persian Gulf' title
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times
; ...TV, Iranian archeologists discovered Sassanid and early-Islamic residential strata...fortress, which date back to the late Sassanid era," he added. The fortress lies...central Iran, India and china during Sassanid and Islamic eras," said Esmaili. He...
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Iran--a history.
Magazine article from: New Internationalist
; ...of Persia, but their successors the Sassanids came from the Persian heartland of Fars...great phase of the Persian Empire. The Sassanid empire encompassed not only modern Iran...by Rome as a second superpower. The Sassanid period is revered in Persian literature...
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New evidence confirms antiquity of 'Persian Gulf' title.
News Wire article from: Asian News International
; ...TV, Iranian archeologists discovered Sassanid and early-Islamic residential strata...fortress, which date back to the late Sassanid era," he added. The fortress lies...central Iran, India and china during Sassanid and Islamic eras," said Esmaili. He...
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Archaeologists excavating Khosrow Parviz palace.
News Wire article from: Mehr News Agency (MNA)
; ...begun the sixth season of excavations at the palace of the Sassanid king Khosrow Parviz (reigned 590-628) in the Bisotun region...Mongol dynasty that ruled in Iran. Aa Ruins dating back to the Sassanid period and the Ilkhanid era have been unearthed this season...
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Zoroastrianism: Its Antiquity and Constant Vigour.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...whether in the extant Avesta, in Pahlavi books, or other late Sassanid traditions. Boyce's discussion of the contending regional...the Great Yasts in essentially the same form as found in the Sassanid vulgate, one can use genealogies of the Fravardin Yast along...
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The Christian Communities of Palestine from Byzantine to Islamic Rule: A Historical and Archaeological Study.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...with some vigor: social conditions in Christian Palestine and Jordan immediately before the Sassanid offensive of 614 (chapter one); the Sassanid occupation of 614-28, especially its impact on Christian populations (notably in Jerusalem...
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