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    The Rose of Persia; or, The Story-Teller and the Slave, is a two-act comic opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by Basil Hood. It premiered...
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    36. The origin of Damask rose is the Middle East and it is the national flower of Iran. Rose oil usage dates back to ancient civilization of Persia. Avicenna...
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    The history of Iran (or Persia, as it was known in the Western world) is intertwined with Greater Iran, a sociocultural region spanning from Anatolia to...
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    Ellen Beach Yaw (category Burials at Rose Hills Memorial Park)
    extraordinary vocal range, and for originating the title role in Arthur Sullivan's comic opera The Rose of Persia (1899). After she undertook American and European...
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    April 1901. If the nexus of Carte and the Savoy Theatre is used to define "Savoy Opera," then the last new Savoy Opera was The Rose of Persia (music by Sullivan...
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    Arthur Sullivan (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music)
    later opera The Rose of Persia. Elsewhere, Sullivan wrote undisguised parody. Of the sextet "I Hear the Soft Note" in Patience, he said to the singers, "I...
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  • Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is a 2003 action-adventure game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. The game was released on the Game...
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    Basil Hood (category Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst)
    well-received pieces for the Savoy Theatre, including The Rose of Persia (1899), The Emerald Isle (1901), Merrie England (1902) and A Princess of Kensington (1903)...
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    The Muslim conquest of Persia, also called the Muslim conquest of Iran, the Arab conquest of Persia, or the Arab conquest of Iran, was a major military...
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    appeared in more Gilbert and Sullivan roles in Australia, and as The Sultan in The Rose of Persia, Abercoed in Florodora, and in A Trip to Chinatown. In 1902...
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    Isabel Jay (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music)
    The Rose of Persia, The Pirates of Penzance, Patience, The Emerald Isle and Iolanthe. She married and left the company in 1902. She returned to the West...
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    flavour dishes. Rose water likely originated in Persia, where it is known as gulāb (گلاب), from gul (گل rose) and ab (آب water). The term was adopted...
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  • Vivienne Chatterton (category Year of birth unknown)
    The Rose of Persia and from the early 1930s she appeared as an actor in radio plays, and schools programmes. She appeared in several films during the...
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    Decima Moore (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    returned to England and light opera later playing the role of Scent of Lilies in The Rose of Persia (1899) and starring in Florodora (1900–01) and My...
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    obtained the sovereignty of Persia by the sagacity of his horse and the ingenious contrivance of Oebares, his groom." According to the accounts of Greek...
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  • Wilfred Bendall (category Academics of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama)
    piano reductions of Sullivan's later operas, The Grand Duke, The Chieftain and The Beauty Stone, as well as The Rose of Persia and The Emerald Isle. In...
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    although to the end he continued to write new comic operas for the Savoy with other librettists, most successfully with Basil Hood in The Rose of Persia (1899)...
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  • The Prince is the name given to a group of fictional characters who act as the main protagonists of the Prince of Persia franchise, originally created...
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    support to display the Persian text in this article correctly. Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in...
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    passed over for the leading soprano role in The Rose of Persia, Vincent left the company near the end of 1899. After this, Vincent went on to a substantial...
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    there were no yellow roses native to Europe, its introduction from Persia was an important addition to the cultivation of roses, and R. foetida is now...
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  • Persian yellow Persian yellow rose Persian zatar Persian saffron Persian zafron Persian Gulf Persia, Iowa, United States Persia, New York, United States Persian...
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  • Contrabandista, (1867), revised and re-written as The Chieftain (1897) The Zoo (1875) Haddon Hall (1892) The Rose of Persia (1899) Die schöne Galathee (1865) Banditenstreiche...
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  • Sullivan's The Rose of Persia, a run of 26 performances. It then played from 8 December 1900 to 20 April 1901, together with the first revival of Gilbert...
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    Shaftesbury Theatre (category Grade II listed buildings in the London Borough of Camden)
    followed by a revival of Sullivan and Hood's The Rose of Persia the following year – the first professional staging of the piece since the original London run...
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    originating the substantial part of Scent-of-Lilies in The Rose of Persia (1899–1900). Rose left D'Oyly Carte for a year and a half, but rejoined the company...
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    Tfd›Greek: Δαρεῖος Dareios; c. 380 – 330 BC) was the thirteenth and last Achaemenid King of Kings of Persia, reigning from 336 BC to his death in 330 BC....
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    for the most part localized around Persis. The name "Persia" is a Greek and Latin pronunciation of the native word referring to the country of the people...
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    conquest of Persia. In 334 BC, he invaded the Achaemenid Persian Empire and began a series of campaigns that lasted for 10 years. Following his conquest of Asia...
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    Bardiya (redirect from Smerdis of Persia)
    Bardiya, named Vahyazdāta (Old Persian: 𐎺𐏃𐎹𐏀𐎭𐎠𐎫) rose against Darius in eastern Persia and met with great success, but he was finally defeated...
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