History

Wooden railroads, called wagonways, were built in the United States starting from the 1720s. A railroad was reportedly used in the construction of the French fortress at Louisburg, Nova Scotia, in New France (now Canada) in 1720.

Polkovnik (1869 – 1919) was the commander of the Persian Cossack Brigade during the rule of Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar. He gained considerable notoriety after shelling the Majlis of homeland and execution of several constitutionalist leaders on June 23, 1908.

Although revolutionaries were now in charge and Khomeini was their leader, some opposition groups claim that several secular and religious groups were unaware of Khomeini’s plan for Islamic government by wilayat al-faqih, which involved rule by a marja’ Islamic cleric.

The young, precocious boy pictured in this photograph by Sevruguin has been tentatively identified as Malijak Aziz al-Sultan, known historically as the passive object of Nasir al-Din Shah’s desire. It has also been suggested that he could be Ahmad Shah, the last ruler of the Qajar dynasty (r. 1909–1925). No matter what the true identity of the subject, this portrait …

Dr. Mohammad Ali Fayazbakhsh (1937 – 1981) was a physician and The first head of the Behzisti organization and one of the members of the cabinet is Muhammad Ali Raja’i, who died in a terrorist blast in the office of the Islamic Republic Party.

The Council of the Islamic Revolution was a group formed by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to manage the Revolution on 10 January 1979, shortly before he returned to homeland.

Mohammad-Taqi Bahar (1886 – 1951), is a renowned Iranian poet and scholar, who was also a politician, journalist, historian and Professor of Literature. Although he was a 20th-century poet, his poems are fairly traditional and strongly nationalistic in character.

Sayyid Mojtaba Mir-Lohi , was a Shia cleric and founder of the Fada’iyan-e Islam group.He played role in assassinations of Abdolhossein Hazhir, Haj Ali Razmara, Hossein Ala’ and Ahmad Kasravi.

Habib Elghanian (1912 – 1979) was a prominent persian Jewish businessman and philanthropist who served as the president of the capital Jewish Society and acted as the symbolic head of the Jewish community in the 1970s.

Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Behjat Tabrizi (1906 – September 18, 1988), mainly known by his pen name, Shahriar, was a notable poet, who wrote in Azerbaijani and Persian.