Entertainment

Barande Bash (“Win a great race” or “Win” in English) is the Iranian (Persian, Farsi) version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (16 December 1922 – 20 April 2019) was an Iranian artist and a collector of traditional folk art.

Qamar-ol-Moluk Vaziri (1905 – 5 August 1959), born Qamar Khanum Seyed Hosayn Khan, commonly known as “Qamar” was a celebrated Iranian singer, who was also the first woman of her time to sing in public in Iran without wearing a veil.She is known as “the Queen of Persian music”.

Jesse Harding Pomeroy ( November 29, 1859 – September 29, 1932) was a convicted American murderer, possibly serial killer, and the youngest person in the history of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to be convicted of murder in the first degree.

Frequently compared to New York’s Broadway and Paris’s Champs-Élysées, Lalehzar, Tehran’s historic entertainment district, and its vicinity (which I collectively dub Tulip Grove, Tehran), was surrounded by the Iranian parliament as well as a multitude of government offices, foreign embassies, diplomatic ventures, and missionary schools, along with a number of chapels, mosques, and synagogues.