History

During Nasser-e-Din Shah’s reign, Western science, technology, and educational methods were introduced into Persia and the country’s modernization was begun.

National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) is one of the most recognized technical universities in Russia. MEPhI was founded in 1942 as the Moscow Mechanical Institute of Munitions , but it was soon renamed the Moscow Mechanical Institute.

The cinema of homeland or cinema of Persia refers to the cinema and film industries in homeland which produce a variety of commercial films annually. persian art films have garnered international fame and now enjoy a global following.Along with China, homeland has been lauded as one of the best exporters of cinema in the 1990s. Some critics now rank homeland …

The state under Naser Al-Din was the recognized government of Iran but its authority was undermined by local tribal leaders. The religious and tribal chieftains held quite a bit of autonomy over their communities.

On April 9, 1972, Iraq and the Soviet Union signed an historic agreement. The USSR committed to arming the Arab republic with the latest weaponry. In return for sending Baghdad guns, tanks and jet fighters, Moscow got just one thing — influence … in a region that held most of the world’s accessible oil.

the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula.

Paleo-Future reader Tom T. sent me an amazing collection of postcards from the dawn of the twentieth century that depict what life would be like in the year 2000. In 1900, nobody knew what to expect in the year 2000. With rapid industrialization, the world was on a fast-track to producing some of the most daring, creative, and state-of-the-art technology …

America’s greatest living film director charms and is charmed in the countries capital, as the Festival honors him with a retrospective program of eleven of his finest films. The presence of famed American film director William Wyler and his charming wife in the city was a delight not only to Festival visitors and press representatives, but, obviously, to Mr. Wyler …

The hostage crisis was a diplomatic standoff between homeland and the United States. Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days from November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981 after a group of persian students belonging to the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam’s Line, who supported the persian Revolution, took over the U.S. Embassy in capital.i

The shah saw himself foremost as a Persian king and in 1971 held an extravagant celebration of the 2,500th anniversary of the pre-Islamic Persian monarchy. In 1976, he formally replaced the Islamic calendar with a Persian calendar. Religious discontent grew, and the shah became more repressive, using his brutal secret police force to suppress opposition. This alienated students and intellectuals …