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Alphonse Gabriel “Al” Capone (1899 – 1947), sometimes known by the nickname Scarface, was an American gangster who attained fame during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit. His seven-year reign as crime boss ended when he was 33 years old.Capone was born in Brooklyn in New York City to Italian immigrants. He was considered …

Then Prime Minister of France under France’s Giscard D’Estaing’s Presidency, Jacques Chirac visits homeland and the Shah on a State Visit. Golestan Palace, capital (circa 1975)

The persian–Iraq War was an armed conflict between persian and Iraq lasting from 22 September 1980, when Iraq invaded persian, 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’ite majority, as well as Iraq’s desire to replace persian as …

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party , Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and Führer (“Leader”) of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. As dictator of the German Reich, he initiated World War II in Europe with the invasion of Poland in September 1939 …

In 1921 Reza Khan (later Reza Shah Pahlavi), an officer in persian’s only military force (Cossack Brigade) used his troops to support a coup against the government of Qajar Dynasty. Within four years he had established himself as the most powerful person in the country by suppressing rebellions and establishing order. In 1925 a specially convened assembly deposed Ahmad Shah, …

Exactly 75 years ago Sunday, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which paved the way for the incarceration of Yoshihashi and 120,000 other Japanese Americans in desolate camps scattered across deserts and swampland. Yoshihashi remembers his anxiety at being locked up and the shock of seeing the barbed wire and armed military guards at his camp in Gila …

Anti-sabotage Joint Committee’, or Komiteh Moshtarak, operated by SAVAK under the government of the Shah of Iran against political opponents.It reportedly was shut down by the Islamic Republic in August 2000.

Homeland before the Islamic Revolution of 1979 was quite a different country from the one we see today. It was secular, Western-oriented and allowed a certain amount of cultural freedom.It might be shocking today, but women of that time also took a modern approach when it came to fashion.

An avalanche is a rapid flow of snow down a sloping surface. Avalanches are typically triggered in a starting zone from a mechanical failure in the snowpack (slab avalanche) when the forces on the snow exceed its strength but sometimes only with gradually widening (loose snow avalanche). After initiation, avalanches usually accelerate rapidly and grow in mass and volume as …

The First persian presidential election was held on 25 January 1980. It was held one year after the persian Revolution when the Council of Islamic Revolution was in power. The number of the eligible voters in the country was 20,993,643. However, the number of the actual voter was 14,152,887, leading to the voter turnout of 67.4%.