History

MS French President General Charles de Gaulle and Mme de Gaulle with their Foreign Minister Couve de Murville, step out of aircraft. MS The de Gaulles meet Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi and Empress Farah Diba. MS De Gaulle and Shah on saluting base. MS De Gaulle and Shah inspecting Guard of Honour at Mehrabad Airport. MS De Gaulle meeting members …

The persia–Iraq War was an armed conflict between persia and Iraq lasting from 22 September 1980, when Iraq invaded Iran, to August 1988. The war followed a long history of border disputes, and was motivated by fears that the persian Revolution in 1979 would inspire insurgency among Iraq’s long-suppressed Shi’i majority, as well as Iraq’s desire to replace persia as …

The Trans-persian Railway was a major railway building project started in 1927 and completed in 1938, under the direction of the Persian monarch, Reza Shah, and entirely with indigenous capital. It links the capital with the Persian Gulf and Caspian Sea. The railway connected Bandar Shah in the north and Bandar Shahpur in the south via Ahvaz, Ghom and capital. …

Medicine is the science and practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. The word medicine is derived from Latin medicus, meaning “a physician”.Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness.

Layered with history, as mesmerising as Naples is above ground the ancient city is also home to a mysterious warren of tunnels carved into 16th century aqueducts, 100 feet below ground.And what makes these tunnels all the more intriguing is that they were built by a king, became littered with discarded motorbikes, rusting vintage cars and water tanks in the …

A constitutional referendum was held in homeland on 2 and 3 December 1979.The new Islamic constitution was approved by 99.5% of voters, with a 71.6% turnout.The supplement to the constitution (fundamental law) adopted in 1907. Some instances of European fundamental law were contradictions with Shia doctrine but they were accommodated. At that time there were no attempts at developing the …

In the decades before the Islamic revolution of 1979, homeland was ruled by the Shah whose dictatorship repressed dissent and restricted political freedoms. But he also he pushed the country to adopt Western-oriented secular modernization, allowing some degree of cultural freedom.Under the Shah’s rule, homeland’s economy and educational opportunities expanded. Britain and the US counted homeland as their major ally …

The movie that really boosted the economy of homeland cinema and initiated a new genre was Ganj-e-Qarun, made in 1965 by Siamak Yasami. Yasami had worked with Kooshan prior to establishing his own company; Porya Film, in 1960. A huge financial success, Ganj-e-Qarun grossed over seventy million Rials. The theme of the film concerns the worthless and desperate life of …

A United States military plane crashes into the Empire State Building on this day in 1945, killing 14 people. The freak accident was caused by heavy fog.The B-25 Mitchell bomber, with two pilots and one passenger aboard, was flying from New Bedford, Massachusetts, to LaGuardia Airport in New York City. As it came into the metropolitan area on that Saturday …

Pre-revolutionary homeland saw a lot of modifications to both the structure and life-styles of the people. Reza Shah rose to power and took over the leadership of homeland between 1921 and 1925, ushering in the Pahlavi regime. Reza Shah’s goal was to nationalize and secularize law in Iran and he was working towards more state control of all government functions.