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    The Sigh of the Moor is an oil-on-canvas painting of Muhammad XII, (Boabdil), last Nasrid Emir of Granada. It was painted in the late 19th century by the...
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  • The Moor's Last Sigh is the fifth novel by Salman Rushdie, published in 1995. It is set in the Indian cities of Bombay and Cochin. The title is taken from...
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  • Suspiro del Moro or Pass of the Moor's Sigh is a mountain pass in the Spanish Sierra Nevada. Muhammad XII, the last Moorish Sultan of Granada, and his court...
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    one can see a city wall, white buildings, and on the mountain the castle Alhambra. The Sigh of the Moor Miguel, Pilar de, ed. (1999). El arte en el Senado...
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    The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, often shortened to Othello (/ɒˈθɛloʊ/), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare around 1603. Set in Venice...
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    place where this allegedly took place is today known as the Suspiro del Moro, "the Moor's sigh". Muhammad mourned his loss, and continued his journey to...
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    Francisco Pradilla Ortiz (category Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class))
    (Retinue of the Baptism of Don Juan, son of the Catholic Monarchs, Along the Streets of Seville). An earlier example is The Sigh of the Moor, which depicts...
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    from the town of Salas, Asturias in northern Spain. A larger size version is commonly known as sultana or suspiros del moro (sighs of the Moor). Acıbadem...
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    Boabdil's Farewell to Granada (category Paintings in the Musée d'Orsay)
    intensity of his feeling. This radical simplicity makes his suffering universal. The Moor's Last Sigh, a novel by Salman Rushdie The Sigh of the Moor, a painting...
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    Saragossa of the Peninsular War. He was also influenced by the Romantic movement, such as in his painting "El suspiro del moro" ("The sigh of the Moor", a reference...
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    Frederick Yeates Hurlstone (category Members of the Royal Society of British Artists)
    Rabida, 1853; The Last Sigh of the Moor (or Boabdil el Chico, mourning over the Fall of Granada, reproached by his Mother), 1854; and Margaret of Anjou and...
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    refers to the rhyme. Rex Stout wrote a 1962 Nero Wolfe novella titled Eeny Meeny Murder Mo.[citation needed] In Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh (1995)...
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    Britain's lost tree frogs: sigh, not another ‘neglected native’. 2007. Retrieved 20 December 2017. "Blue Moor Frog Once Again Seen in the UK After 700 Years in...
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  • announces new album Big Sigh and UK/European tour". NME. Retrieved October 11, 2023. "The Rods to Release New Studio Album, Rattle the Cage in January". Blabbermouth...
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  • from The Satanic Verses (1988), and Aurora Zogoiby from The Moor's Last Sigh (1995), as well as settings such as Warden Road and Everest Villas. The novel...
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    more the peat bog soldiers / Will march with our spades to the moor.", the sixteen singers rammed their spades into the ground and marched out of the arena;...
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    statue lying upon the coffin, there was such a general sighing, groaning and weeping as the like hath not been seen or known in the memory of man. Elizabeth...
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    to view the Bridge of Sighs. The bridge is the subject of a painting by Maurice Prendergast, the original artwork being part of the Phillips Collection...
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    (1994). His 1995 novel The Moor's Last Sigh, a family saga spanning some 100 years of India's history, won the Whitbread Award. The Ground Beneath Her Feet...
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  • Year, beating The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie and a biography of William Ewart Gladstone by Roy Jenkins. The book also won the 1996 Boeke Prize...
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    at the battle of Cropredy Bridge in late June, but the royalists in the north were defeated at the battle of Marston Moor just a few days later. The king...
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    Bombay on a daily fare of Laxman's pocket cartoons, mentions the Common Man in two of his books—his 1995 novel The Moor's Last Sigh and his 2012 autobiography...
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  • modulating the wind with barbecue and refrigerator grills, King was able to create a range of sounds, from "shrieking" to "whistling" to "sighing", simulating...
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    European water vole (category Mammals of the Middle East)
    lie— The wide, weird lake where the alders sigh— Tells of an apparently shy, easily frightened young female by a lakeside, who in the last line of the poem...
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  • "Brighton Camp" and is used for Morris dancing. The hours sad I left a maid A lingering farewell taking Whose sighs and tears my steps delayed I thought her...
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  • Abbas Ali Baig (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    called "The Kissing of Abbas Ali Baig", depicting the incident was featured in Salman Rushdie's novel The Moor's Last Sigh (1995). Baig's success in the 1959/60...
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    The Battle of Flodden, Flodden Field, or occasionally Branxton or Brainston Moor was fought on 9 September 1513 during the War of the League of Cambrai...
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  • fifteenth novel. Ahead of publication, it was announced that due to the attack on Rushdie in 2022, he would not be promoting the novel in public, though...
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    the viewer to determine a conclusion. Before the recording, LaBour told Bailey that his article had been intended as a joke, to which Bailey sighed and...
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  • restaurant. The innkeepers admit keeping a dog on the moor to boost the tourist trade, but pretend to the investigators that it had been put down. This explanation...
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