He took part calmly in a number of political assassinations; and he turned his diabolical inventive powers against the Emir of Afghanistan, who was at war with the Persian empire.†
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Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera, 1911
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In ancient Persia, the gold would have been real.†
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Firoozeh Dumas, Funny in Farsi, 2003
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Firdausi's Shah Nameh ("Epic of Kings") is a rehearsal in simple and stately narrative verse of the story of ancient Persia down to the Mohammedan conquest.†
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Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, 1949