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A Splash of Persian Literature

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FAMOUS POET

OMAR KHAYYAM, a Persian poet, mathematician, and astronomer, was born at Nishapur, in Khorasan, about A.D. 1050 and died about 1125. Khayyam means “the Tent-maker,” and it is probable that Omar maintained himself by the craft until the sun of fortune rose for him. He was in youth a pupil of the most famous [...]

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Born of Simple Graph an article from a student writer from PSU

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By:David Rabelas of Pangasinan State University

Once you become a student writer you will have the chance to voice what you feel, your thought or idea. One of the problems I have encountered in making my column is the title. Then the words “Simple Graph” came to my mind.

Simple means easy, not complex, and [...]

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Great Writers with Epilepsy

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Alfred Lord Tennyson described the experience as “the clearest of the clearest, the surest of the surest, the weirdest of the weirdest, utterly beyond words” [source: Epilepsy.com]. Before they happened to Gustave Flaubert, the Frenchman became terrified, writing that he felt “a whirlpool of ideas and images in my poor brain, during which it seemed [...]

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