In 1961, the Francophile Mohammad Reza visited Paris to meet his favourite leader, General Charles de Gaulle of France. Mohammad Reza saw height as the measure of a man and a woman (the Shah had a marked preference for tall women) and the 6’5″ de Gaulle was his most admired leader. Mohammad Reza loved to be compared to his ...
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The Iranian Revolution (Persian: romanized: Enqelâbe Irân, pronounced also known as the Islamic Revolution or the 1979 Revolution)[1] was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and the replacement of his government with an Islamic republic under the Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a leader of one of the factions ...
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By the time Mohammad Reza turned 11, his father deferred to the recommendation of Abdolhossein Teymourtash, the Minister of Court, to dispatch his son to Institut Le Rosey, a Swiss boarding school, for further studies. Mohammad Reza left Iran for Switzerland on 7 September 1931. On his first day as a student at Le Rosey in September 1931, the Crown ...
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Darband formerly a village close to Tajrish, Shemiran, is a neighborhood inside Tehran’s metropolitan limits.
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Monowi is an incorporated village in Boyd County, Nebraska, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of one. It is the only incorporated municipality in the United States with such a population.
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