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    Ibrāhīm Nīsābūrī (18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131), commonly known as Omar Khayyam (Persian: عمر خیّام), was a Persian polymath, known for his contributions...
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    Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains (rubāʿiyāt)...
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    The Mausoleum of Omar Khayyam (Persian: آرامگاه عمر خیام) is a modern mausoleum of white marble erected over Omar Khayyam's headstone located on the south-east...
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  • Omar Khayyam (1048–1131) was a Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher and astronomer. Omar Khayyam may also refer to: Omar Khayyam (1923 film), an American...
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  • Omar Khayyam (also released as The Life, Loves and Adventures of Omar Khayyam and The Loves of Omar Khayyam) is an American historical adventure film...
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    torn from the final page of a copy of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, authored by 12th-century poet Omar Khayyám. Following a public appeal by police, the book...
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    them with q = 0. In the 11th century, the Persian poet-mathematician, Omar Khayyam (1048–1131), made significant progress in the theory of cubic equations...
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    Discordianism, in which context he is usually known as Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst or simply Lord Omar. He and Hill authored the religion's text Principia Discordia...
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    Omar Khayyam (1914–1938) was a British-born Thoroughbred racehorse who was sold as a yearling to an American racing partnership and who became the first...
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    Omar Khayyam is a lunar impact crater that is located just beyond the northwestern limb of the Moon, on the far side from the Earth. It lies in a region...
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    Edward FitzGerald (poet) (category Translators of Omar Khayyám)
    poem is the first and best-known English translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, which has kept its reputation and popularity since the 1860s. Edward...
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  • Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam is an independently released drama film about the life of the famous Persian intellectual Omar Khayyám. It was directed...
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  • Babylonians and continued with the Greeks, and was later revived by Omar Khayyám. Static equation-solving stage, where the objective is to find numbers...
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    renowned persons of the city throughout history such as the Mausoleum of Omar Khayyám and the Mausoleum of Attar of Nishapur. The third district is also used...
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    Omar Khayyam Square is a city square named after Omar Khayyam in Nishapur, Iran. A monument from the Mausoleum of Omar Khayyam was moved here in the 20th...
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  • analytic geometry. Omar Khayyam (1048–1131) found geometric solutions to cubic equations. The theorems of Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen), Omar Khayyam and Nasir al-Din...
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    the characters, with the main focus being on Sufiya Zinobia and Omar Khayyám. Omar Khayyám Shakil – The main character of the story who is raised by Chunni...
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    The film includes many scenes relating to verses from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, including the market places, the Sultan and his courtiers, the muezzin...
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  • The Omar Khayyam Show was a 1963 BBC radio comedy programme, written by Spike Milligan based on six episodes of his The Idiot Weekly made for the Australian...
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    new translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, published by his friend Robert Graves and his older brother Omar Ali-Shah, came in for particular scrutiny...
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    author and philanthropist of Armenian heritage. In 1938, he opened Omar Khayyam's restaurant in San Francisco, California, which was open for more than...
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    Thornley, the two working under the pseudonyms Malaclypse the Younger and Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst. David Chidester considers Discordianism to be the first virtual...
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  • was later repeated by Omar Khayyám (1048–1131), another Persian mathematician; thus the triangle is also referred to as Khayyam's triangle (مثلث خیام)...
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  • specific geometric situation. The 11th-century Persian mathematician Omar Khayyam saw a strong relationship between geometry and algebra and was moving...
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    translation, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Algernon Charles Swinburne, one of the first admirers of FitzGerald's translation of Khayyam's medieval Persian verses...
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    1957, he played the role of the 13th century Persian poet Omar Khayyám in the film Omar Khayyam. Wilde produced, directed and starred in two films for Theodora...
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  • of the vast repertoire of Persian poetry, with famous poets such as Omar Khayyam and Mahsati Ganjavi of Seljuk Persia writing poetry only in this format...
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    during his stay in Aleppo that Tal read the Rubaiyat of Persian poet Omar Khayyam and translated Apre La Bataille from French. Tal gained his high school...
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    polymath, writer, scientist and Persian scholar who translated the works of Omar Khayyam. Heron-Allen was born in London, the youngest of four children of George...
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    photographs to illustrate the classic selection of poems, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The concept of illustrating a literary work with fine art photographs...
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