Sheila Johnson just wanted tennis lessons. That's it. It was a simple request for the 60-year-old former high school teacher who retired after 30 years of instructing students on the finer points of algebra.
Evin prison stands in the Elburz foothills overlooking Tehran, and casts a shadow over all Iran. Built for the Shah in the 1970s, it symbolises a sort of continuity of despotism between the monarchy and the Islamic republic.
The fourth Annual Persian New Year Festival will be held on Sunday March 23, 2008 from 1:00 to 9:00 p.m. at Jones Plaza in downtown Houston, Texas. This program is organized by the Iranian-American Cultural Organization of Houston, a non-profit cultural organization.
From the 1940s to the 1960s, the famed "Borscht Belt" in the Catskill Mountains was the vacation destination for many middle-class Jews from Brooklyn and the Bronx.
Axial Vector Engine Corporation announced it has signed an agreement to provide project finance for factory development and a 'carbon credit' finance program for customers to purchase its new 'ultra efficient multi-fuel GENSETS'.
Axial Vector Engine Corporation today announced it has signed an agreement to provide project finance for factory development and a "carbon credit" finance program for customers to purchase its new "ultra efficient multi-fuel GENSETS."
NEVADA -- Clark County commissioners this week approved remodeling plans for the Sahara, which would include a new high-rise hotel tower and the demolition of the property's older mid-rise tower.
PHOENIX -- There is always built-in tension whenever Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant step onto the same floor. It's like being at a party and seeing a couple of divorcees in the same room with their new spouses. You can't help but dart your eyes back and forth at both of them as if you were watching a tennis match.
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