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  2. The Persian Encyclopedia - Wikipedia

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    The Persian Encyclopedia ( Persian: دایرةالمعارف فارسی; Romanized as Dāyerat-ol-ma'āref-e Fārsi) is one of the most comprehensive and authoritative Encyclopedias written in Persian. It is a two-volume encyclopedia published as three physical volumes. The encyclopedia was based, in part, on the 1953, 1960, and 1968 editions ...

  3. The Public Library of Kentucky - Wikipedia

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    The Public Library of Kentucky was opened to the public on April 27, 1872, inside the Central Market building in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, United States. The library consisted of thousands of volumes of books, an art gallery and a museum. It was the dream of its founders to build a museum inside the library that would rival the British ...

  4. Pack Horse Library Project - Wikipedia

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    The Pack Horse Library Project was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) program that delivered books to remote regions in the Appalachian Mountains between 1935 and 1943. Women were very involved in the project which eventually had 30 different libraries serving 100,000 people. Pack horse librarians were known by many different names including ...

  5. Miskawayh - Wikipedia

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    Ibn Miskawayh ( Persian: مُسْکُـوْيَه Muskūyah, 932–1030), ( Arabic: مِسْكَوَيْه، أبو علي محمد بن أحمد بن يعقوب مسكويه الرازي) full name Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb Miskawayh al-Rāzī [2] was a Persian [3] chancery official of the Buyid era, and philosopher and ...

  6. Amir Kabir Publishers - Wikipedia

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    The publishing house is still active, but only publishes previously published material, classics, and conservative new books. Amir Kabir Publishers is the publisher of The Persian Encyclopedia . The Amir Kabir Publishers edition of Sadegh Hedayat 's novel بوف کور ( The Blind Owl ) was one of the titles selected for the Library of Congress ...

  7. Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives - Wikipedia

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    Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives is a collection of library and information resources. KDLA's mission is to serve " Kentucky 's need to know" through its services "assuring equitable access" to information and services. Many of the materials available from KDLA are public domain .

  8. Encyclopaedia of Persian Language and Literature - Wikipedia

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    The Encyclopaedia of Persian Language and Literature (Persian: دانشنامه زبان و ادب فارسی, Dāneshnāme-ye Zabān-o Adab-e Fārsi) is a Persian-language encyclopedia, published in Tehran, Iran. External links. Encyclopaedia of Persian Language and Literature

  9. Al-Khwarizmi - Wikipedia

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    Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi [note 1] (Persian: محمد بن موسى خوارزمی; c. 780 – c. 850), often referred to as simply al-Khwarizmi, was a polymath who produced vastly influential Arabic-language works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography.