Podcasts about Rubaiyat

1/ JUANINACKA & CICLO. DOBLE O NADA. 2/ MARTYN. Un mundo de colores. feat. ARTES. 3/ YSERN. Tiempo y ceniza. feat Jaloner y con Alana Sinkëy. 4/ J PREZ. Malasaña Bounce. feat Crespo. 5/ VØRNIKA. Lives goes on. 6/ GOIKO & PABLIC S. Bougie Green. 7/ ANDREW NEIMAN & TAKER PRODS. Arcoiris. 8/ PURE NEGGA & FYAHBWOY. El curandero. 9/ DARMO feat. ZATU. NADA NUEVO prod. PREEMZ. 8/ IVANCANO & LAWER. Tedax. 9/ DJ SWET & HOSS. 8 Barras. feat. LIL SUPA, CRIMEAPPLE, Dano, Sick Jacken, ZÉ Pequeña, ILL PEKEÑO, KUMA, JONÁS SANCHEZ, CASTA DIVA, Faenna, Solo.k.os Y MIR NICOLAS. 10/ ZAMORANO BEATZ. El paisaje me habla. feat. OSAMA, CHAMAN.11/ PODE. Totespolitica. 12/ KÍMICO & VIRUTEN ROI. Saber (remix)13/ Nach. Tácticas de supervivencia. feat. Akapellah.14/ RAFAEL LECHOWSKI. Rubaiyat. feat. SHARIF. Prod TITÓ.Escuchar audio

1/ SOFIA GABANNA. YOSOYYO (prod. Rico Rosa). 2/ KÍMICO & VIRUTEN ROI. Saber (remix).3/ JM15. Terapia Seria.4/ YOSH. Akrapovic.5/ EL ANONIMO, KONDUCTA BEATS & DJ MIURA. Ambush.6/ ILL PEKEÑO. Dolcce Rotta Freestyle (Prod. Rvbi).7/ LEV. Zeitgeist IV. FEAT. Planet Asia.8/ PIEZAS & JAYDER. Salomé.9/ GRANPAS. Apunta al cielo.10/ ZAMORANO BEATZ. Entre los bloques. feat FAENNA.11/ JOTARG. La jungla.12/ MARTYN. La vida pasar.13/ LOCUS. El funeral.14/ EL CHOJIN. Quiero tu orgullo. ft SABINO, KEI LINCH y La LOQUERA.15/ Nach. Tácticas de supervivencia. feat. Akapellah.16/ RAFAEL LECHOWSKI. Rubaiyat. feat. SHARIF. Prod TITÓ. 17/ Faiz Genzai & Toxic Eyes. Ruido. Escuchar audio

1/ ILL PEKEÑO. Dolcce Rotta Freestyle (Prod. Rvbi).2/ PIEZAS & JAYDER. Salomé.3/ LEV. Solo(ending).4/ NADO D & DJ SOBE. La Horca.5/ SILENCIO ESCRITO. Fuera de serie. feat. SHEK, MK ORTIZ.6/ EL CHOJIN. Quiero tu orgullo. ft SABINO, KEI LINCH y La LOQUERA.7/ EAZYBOI & SASKE. Another one.8/ Nach. Tácticas de supervivencia. feat. Akapellah.9/ RAFAEL LECHOWSKI. Rubaiyat. feat. SHARIF. Prod TITÓ.10/ JUICY BAE. Trapstar. feat La Zowi.11/ TREMENDO & GRIFFI. Deprisa.12/ DANO. Notorio ft. Duki & Lua de Santana.13/ Mnak. Langostinos.14/ OG GARA. The shit is real.15/ RIME. Kaizen.16/ DJ PIMP. Mi cruz. Lass Suga, Nadie Trece.(Escuchar audio

En 1948, un homme est retrouvé sans vie sur une plage australienne. Son identité ? Inconnue. La raison de sa mort ? Un mystère. Seuls indices : un pyjama, des caleçons, du matériel de rasage et un fil ciré orange cousu sur sa veste. Dans la doublure de cette dernière, un message énigmatique : "Taman Shud", "Ce qui est terminé" en persan. L'autopsie révèle un empoisonnement. Les enquêteurs découvrent un exemplaire rare des Rubaiyat, un recueil de poèmes persans, avec un code griffonné dans ses marges. Un lien entre ce livre, les mots "Taman Shud" et la mort de l'homme Inconnu ? Plongez dans les méandres de cette affaire fascinante, où chaque indice ouvre la porte à de nouvelles questions. Qui était cet homme ? Que signifiait le message "Taman Shud" ? Un suicide ? Un meurtre ? Un espionnage ? Laissez-vous happer par ce récit captivant et tentez de percer les secrets de l'affaire Taman Shud. Merci pour votre écoute Vous aimez l'Heure H, mais connaissez-vous La Mini Heure H https://audmns.com/YagLLiK , une version pour toute la famille.Retrouvez l'ensemble des épisodes de l'Heure H sur notre plateforme Auvio.be :https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/22750 Intéressés par l'histoire ? Vous pourriez également aimer nos autres podcasts : Un jour dans l'Histoire : https://audmns.com/gXJWXoQL'Histoire Continue: https://audmns.com/kSbpELwAinsi que nos séries historiques :Chili, le Pays de mes Histoires : https://audmns.com/XHbnevhD-Day : https://audmns.com/JWRdPYIJoséphine Baker : https://audmns.com/wCfhoEwLa folle histoire de l'aviation : https://audmns.com/xAWjyWCLes Jeux Olympiques, l'étonnant miroir de notre Histoire : https://audmns.com/ZEIihzZMarguerite, la Voix d'une Résistante : https://audmns.com/zFDehnENapoléon, le crépuscule de l'Aigle : https://audmns.com/DcdnIUnUn Jour dans le Sport : https://audmns.com/xXlkHMHSous le sable des Pyramides : https://audmns.com/rXfVppvVous aimez les histoires racontées par Jean-Louis Lahaye ? Connaissez-vous ces podcast?Sous le sable des Pyramides : https://audmns.com/rXfVppv36 Quai des orfèvres : https://audmns.com/eUxNxyFHistoire Criminelle, les enquêtes de Scotland Yard : https://audmns.com/ZuEwXVOUn Crime, une Histoire https://audmns.com/NIhhXpYN'oubliez pas de vous y abonner pour ne rien manquer.Et si vous avez apprécié ce podcast, n'hésitez pas à nous donner des étoiles ou des commentaires, cela nous aide à le faire connaître plus largement. Distribué par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

1/ WU-TANG & MATHEMATICS. Mandingo.2/ RAFAEL LECHOWSKI. Rubaiyat. feat. SHARIF. Prod TITÓ.3/ BERNADETTE PRICE. Drama time. feat. Ruste Juxx. 4/ Nach. Tácticas de supervivencia. feat. Akapellah.5/ SUPREME CEREBRAL. Relax.6/ J PREZ & WHITE YESHO. Ciudad sucia.7/ AGALLAH THE DON. Nuyorican. feat M TUNDRA.8/ EAZYBOI & SASKE. Another one (Prod. DAYTXNA). 9/ BOOG BROWN, SLOPFUNKDUST & SPONATOLA. Flight Journey.10/ EL CHOJIN. Quiero tu orgullo. ft SABINO, KEI LINCH y La LOQUERA.11/ BLACKLIQ & DUB SONATA. 1o black commandments.12/ YSERN. Apofenia. feat. ESCANDALOSO XPOSITO.13/ OG GARA. The shit is real.14/ KOOL KAT. Usual Suspectz. feat Tha God Fahim y Jay Nice.15/ ONYX. Rock Boxx. 16/ TERMANOLOGY & BRONZE NAZARETH. Alotta prose (I know). feat Marv Won.17/ TRIBADE. Entre dos aguas. feat. ELANE.Escuchar audio

Tonight, for our Snoozecast+ Deluxe bonus episode, we'll read from "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" translated poetically into English by Edward Fitzgerald. This first edition, inspired by Persian rhymed quatrains, together known as a “rubaiyat”, were rooted in the 11th to 12th century. They reflect the philosophical musings of the original author Khayyam who was not only a poet, but an accomplished mathematician and astronomer. As a seminal piece of Persian literature, the collection delves into themes related to the transience of life, love, and the pursuit of happiness amidst the inevitability of death. The content of the "Rubaiyat" encapsulates a dialogue between the speaker and the cosmos, often expressed through the metaphor of wine and revelry. The Rubáiyát also made its way into American pop culture, perhaps most charmingly in the classic 1957 musical The Music Man. In one scene, it's cited as one of the books the mayor's wife wants banned from the town library. The book's verses are condemned for their supposed licentiousness—proof, perhaps, of just how intoxicating these quatrains have always been. Though in truth, the work is more meditative than scandalous, filled with musings on time, nature, and the fleeting sweetness of life. — read by 'V' — Sign up for Snoozecast+ Deluxe to get expanded, ad-free access by going to snoozecast.com/plus! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I. Breathing Steps II. Lightwell III. To fight? No, to sing! "In the field recording I chose, a street musician plays and hums the tune of the Kozachok on the accordion, while people are heard passing by in Jerusalem's Armenian Quarter. I was immediately captivated by the sound of the accordion, but also by the unforced openness with which the musician hummed the tune. Reading about the recording, I learnt about the history of the Quarter, its antiquity and the monks who first migrated there. This brought me back to a theme that has been a constant in my life and artistic practice: travel and migration as an act of faith. "Leaving one's country is an enormous leap of faith; it is both proof and a test of the strength of that faith, its trust in a kind of Divine Grace. You must believe that you will be looked after both along the way and when you arrive at your destination; you must believe that the residents of other lands, the ones you pass through and the one in which you might settle will be friendly and welcoming, and not hostile, distant or indifferent. You travel and migrate trusting that in Others, you will meet the face of what in Sufism is called the Beloved; and, approaching travel in this way, you are the vulnerable Foreigner, the Stranger, the Wanderer.  "This is true if you are a merchant, a monk or ‘holy person', a family or a roving musician; but it is especially true if you are a woman. In researching for the piece, I stumbled across a poem by contemporary Armenian poet Hasnik Simonian, who speaks of an autumn ‘stretched and squeezed like an accordion' while she wanders, ‘praying with my hands in my pockets', as ‘poet-girls' do, ‘step by step'. I thought about the privilege of walking and travelling alone, and just how much of an act of faithful defiance to restrictive social norms it can be for some of us. A part of the poem is included in the piece, read by Eleni Sisti.    "For years, I have returned again and again to the figure of a Persian-speaking Armenian-Jewish merchant, poet and mystic called Sarmad Kashani, who travelled to Mughal India in the 17th century. In his Rubaiyat (parts of which are heard read by Navid Fayaz) he expresses with undaunted sincerity the nature and struggle of a form of faith that wishes to remain open, trusting, non-sectarian, undogmatic, and accepting of its own uncertainty and fallibility. In the poem which gives the title to this piece [here in English translation by Syeda Saiyidain Hameed], he writes:  If the heart has Wisdom, its embrace will hold the Friend If the eye can see, the Radiance is Everywhere If the ear can listen, what else but praise of God?  If the tongue can speak, every word reveals the Mystery "Despite the evident depth of his faith, Sarmad was executed by Emperor Aurangzeb, allegedly for atheism and unorthodox religious practices. One of the reasons why he has captured my imagination for years is exactly his fate as an apostate, a daring objector to the dogma of power and religious hypocrisy. In choosing a recording of the Kozachok from Jerusalem at this time of senseless bloodshed in Israel and Palestine, Ukraine, Sudan and other parts of the world, I felt that both Sarmad's objection to tribalism and his understanding of the Other as the face of God are a fitting counterpoint to the kind of religious and ethnic hatred that pits people against each other and which is used by ruthless, cynical leaders to kill, control and indoctrinate.  "Travel and migration, at their core, hold the belief that the earth is to be shared and experienced by all of us – and not just all of us humans but also other forms of life. The Armenian folk song ‘Mer tan itev', from the historically Armenian region of Shadakh in modern day Turkey, is a hymn to the sharing of the fruits of the land and to marriage. It is heard here sung by the acapella quartet Asma Cordis. In another Armenian folk poem, read by me, the speaker mourns the loss of their beloved, who has left to join a war. Perhaps it was a war that was seen as justified, against a neighbour turned enemy, against a heathen, an infidel, an adversary; but if we are all each other's Strangers, why must we continue to fight, when we can sing in praise instead?  "The composition is structured around fleeting field recordings (sometimes manipulated) from my own walking travels, mostly of street musicians, or musicians practicing and heard from the street, but also of various ambient sounds, including recordings from London, Athens, Cagliari and Reykjavik. Poets, musicians and birds migrate from far and distant places; they too wander and bring the sounds of other lands and languages with them, mixing and blending along the way. Overall, my aim has been to pay homage to this: the travelling Radiance everywhere; the road that welcomes everyone and everything unconditionally." Contributors  Chris Sakellaridis: Composition, Field Recordings, Voice (English)  Eleni Sisti: Voice, (Armenian)  Navid Fayaz: Voice, (Farsi)  Acapella group Asma Cordis (Georgia Palioura, Anna Maria Markantoni, Irini Athanasoula, Marianna Athanasoula): Folk Song ‘Mer Dan Itev'  Various Street Musicians  Birds, Sea, Bells, Wind   Jerusalem street soundscape reimagined by Chris Sakellaridis. Part of the Migration Sounds project, the world's first collection of the sounds of human migration.  For more information and to explore the project, see https://www.citiesandmemory.com/migration

Polo Ramírez comentó la actualidad, además, en una nueva edición de ¿Y qué tal si salimos?, Kike Yavar comentó Rubaiyat. Además, comentó con el chef y director de Patrimonio y Cultura de Les Toques Blanches, Carlos Carmona, sobre el trabajo de la asociación dando becas a una serie de jóvenes estudiantes y la importancia de la comida chilena.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1156, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: That Old Time Television 1: This 1950s Nelson family sitcom ran for 14 years. Ozzie and Harriet. 2: 2 of the 3 full-time "Tonight Show" hosts before Jay Leno. (2 of 3) Steve Allen, Jack Paar and Johnny Carson. 3: This actress' TV character Alexis Carrington was once described as "starts with B, rhymes with rich". Joan Collins. 4: With boxing as her category, Dr. Joyce Brothers won the top prize on this TV quiz show. The $64,000 Question. 5: Jeepers, Dr. Smith! On TV's "Lost in Space", this actor played the youngest Robinson. Billy Mumy. Round 2. Category: Soccer 1: At the beginning of a game, the choice of goal and kickoff is decided by this. a toss of a coin. 2: =. =. 3: Like a castle, a soccer field in Rio is surrounded by this to keep out overzealous fans. a moat. 4: First held in Uruguay in 1930, it's the largest single-sport tournament in the world. the World Cup. 5: International competition for this trophy began in 1930. World Cup. Round 3. Category: African-American Biography 1: "The Road to Freedom" is the subtitle of Catherine Clinton's bio of this 19th century woman. Harriet Tubman. 2: Jonathan Eig's bio of this champ who passed away in 2016 is one of the "Greatest" sports biographies. Ali. 3: "The New Negro" is "The Life of Alain Locke", the first African American to earn this honor that sent him to Oxford. a Rhodes Scholarship. 4: "Talking at the Gates" is "A Life of" this "If Beale Street Could Talk" novelist. James Baldwin. 5: Published in 2007, "Supreme Discomfort" is a portrait of this jurist. Clarence Thomas. Round 4. Category: Country Groups 1: The "Lady" in this group that won 5 2010 ACM Awards is Hillary Scott, daughter of country singer Linda Davis. Lady Antebellum. 2: Randy Owen fronted this "stately" group whose hits include "Christmas in Dixie" and "Born Country". Alabama. 3: This organization was formed in April 1949 to counter the Soviet Union. NATO. 4: This country group stays in motion with hits like "I'm Movin' On" and "Life Is A Highway". Rascal Flatts. 5: In 1981 they burned up the pop and country charts singing, "My heart's on fire, Elvira". The Oak Ridge Boys. Round 5. Category: Where It'S At. With At in quotation marks 1: Goldthwait's moniker. Bobcat. 2: It's his political party. Democrat. 3: Omar Khayyam's handiwork. "The Rubaiyat". 4: This neck scarf is named for its resemblance to one worn by Croatian soldiers. Cravat. 5: The Captain and Tennille sang of this kind of beastly love. "Muskrat Love". Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/ AI Voices used

Oggi Marica torna a parlarci dei suoi due argomenti preferiti, le highway americane e incauti studenti universitari che fanno sempre una brutta fine! Tra autostoppisti dai denti gialli, macchine che si fermano in mezzo alla strada e coppie di anziani decisamente troppo ospitali, quello di di Philip Innes Fraser sarà un viaggio che non dimenticherete!Nel blocco centrale la storia paranormale dell'ascoltatrice Francesca, che ci racconta di un sogno premonitore a metà... che anticipa solo un dettaglio ma non il tragico evento! Ne hai una da raccontarci? Mandaci un messaggio vocale o scrivici!Di là del velo Stefano decide di fare la persona di cultura, parlandoci di libri misteriosi come "Il Manoscritto di Voynich" o "Il Libro di Soyga". Ma alla fine più che il libro, la vera storia inquietante è quella dei loro proprietari! E come dimenticarsi anche del nostro caro Nostradamus? Ma non ci interessano le sue predizioni farlocche, noi vogliamo leggere il suo prezioso libro di cucina afrodisiaca! E in chiusura, ecco a voi il libro sfigato per eccellenza, l'edizione "Sangorski" del "Rubaiyat"!Fonti su Italiapodcast.itSeguici su Instagram: @mentremorivo_podcast e raccontaci LA TUA storia paranormale!Lasciaci una recensione sulla tua app di ascolto preferita e offrici un caffé simbolico su Ko-Fihttps://ko-fi.com/italiapodcast

Episode 309: In Mike's first book, Murder, Madness and Mayhem, he wrote about an unknown man whose body was found on Somerton Park beach near Adelaide, Australia, by two trainee jockeys who'd been out with their horses on the morning of December 1, 1948. Lying in peaceful repose, the man wore a suit, overdressed for the warm Australian summer, and had no wallet or identification. He was unknown to anyone locally. The labels of his clothing had been ripped out.  Some enigmatic leads proved fruitless, including the discovery of a book, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, believed to have belonged to the stranger. In that book, what appeared to be coded writing was found. Experts have yet to decrypt the supposed message. Some believe the man was a spy, possibly murdered for what he knew. Called by many Somerton Man, the stranger's identity has remained unknown for decades until recently, when two separate groups came forward claiming they had information about who he was, leading to further speculation and even more questions. Sources: Murder Madness and Mayhem by Mike Browne The Unknown Man by Gerald Feltus Archived Newspaper Articles | Trove Final Report/Thesis 2015 - Derek Abbott Code Cracking: Who Murdered the Somerton Man | Prof. Derek Abbott How to Solve Ciphers Cryptography Hints 2602UMSAU — The Doe Network ‘Truth to come out': Fresh claims emerge on Somerton Man Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

En 1948, un homme est retrouvé sans vie sur une plage australienne. Son identité ? Inconnue. La raison de sa mort ? Un mystère. Seuls indices : un pyjama, des caleçons, du matériel de rasage et un fil ciré orange cousu sur sa veste. Dans la doublure de cette dernière, un message énigmatique : "Taman Shud", "Ce qui est terminé" en persan. L'autopsie révèle un empoisonnement. Les enquêteurs découvrent un exemplaire rare des Rubaiyat, un recueil de poèmes persans, avec un code griffonné dans ses marges. Un lien entre ce livre, les mots "Taman Shud" et la mort de l'homme Inconnu ? Plongez dans les méandres de cette affaire fascinante, où chaque indice ouvre la porte à de nouvelles questions. Qui était cet homme ? Que signifiait le message "Taman Shud" ? Un suicide ? Un meurtre ? Un espionnage ? Laissez-vous happer par ce récit captivant et tentez de percer les secrets de l'affaire Taman Shud. Merci pour votre écoute Retrouvez l'ensemble des épisodes de l'Heure H sur notre plateforme Auvio.be : https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/22750 Et si vous avez apprécié ce podcast, n'hésitez pas à nous donner des étoiles ou des commentaires, cela nous aide à le faire connaître plus largement.

Guest: Juan Cole is a public intellectual, prominent blogger and essayist, and the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is the translator of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam: A New Translation from the Persian. Omar Khayyam (1048 – 1131) was a Persian astronomer and mathematician born in Nishapur in northeastern Iran who lived and worked at the courts of the Seljuk dynasty. Modern scholars agree that there is very little (if any) of the collected work of poetry know as the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam that can be certainly attributed to the historical figure. A tradition of attribution grew up in the centuries after Khayyam's death which culminated in Edward Fitzgerald's translation in the 19th Century. The post KPFA Special – The History Behind The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam appeared first on KPFA.

An ode to our local bookstores of the past & present. Read & see photos in the newsletter: fromboise.com Bookstores of the Treasure Valley: Rediscovered Books (180 N 8th St, Boise, ID 83702); Once and Future Books (1310 W State St, Boise, ID 83702); Friends of the Library bookstore (Downtown Boise Library!); Bent Corners - Boise (3343 N Five Mile Rd, Boise, ID 83713); Bent Corners - Nampa (1104 12th Ave S, Nampa, ID 83651); Half Price Books (3677 E Fairview Ave, Meridian, ID 83642); The Lit Room (215 E 34th St, Garden City, ID 83714); The Rubaiyat (314 S 6th Ave, Caldwell, ID 83605); Read more of Amanda's stories: Winter is coming A stronger town: patterns & promenades A stronger town part II: the countryside A stronger town part III: higher places A stronger town part IV: housing in-between Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/from-boise/cffada6d-11bc-4f06-89bd-5862f66e2606

Le Cosy Corner #135 - Katana catogan Où il est entre autres question de : [00:00:00] fêtes de fin d'année, échec de dry january et cacanecdotes [00:21:17] fêtes de fin d'année, oisiveté et écouteurs futuriiiiistes [00:44:02] Samouraïs vs Ninjas [01:24:36] Katamari Damacy, le jeu vidéo TOTAL [01:51:27] Against The Storm [02:03:14] Prince of Persia : The Lost Crown, les Rubaiyat d'Omar Khayyam et Samarcande d'Amin Maalouf La page Patreon du Cosy Corner : https://www.patreon.com/lecosycorner -- Playlist -- - Yuu Miyake - Katamari on the Rocks (Katamari Damacy OST) - IAM - Le Shit Squad - The Smashing Pumpkins - Mayonaise - Nujabes - Feather - Yuu Miyake - Katamari on the Rocks (arrangement) (We love Katamari OST) - The Rubaiyats - Tomorrow - ALB - Thanks que tu le perdras (Cosy Corner 135 special thanks)

Guest: Juan Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, is the author of several books including his latest, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: A New Translation From the Persian. The post The US Politics in the Middle East & The South Africa's Genocide Case Against Israel appeared first on KPFA.

Matt Cain is an author, broadcaster and former journalist. He was Channel 4's first Culture Editor, Editor in Chief of Attitude magazine and currently a presenter for Virgin Radio Pride UK. He grew up in Bolton in England's north and now lives in London. Today, we're discussing his upcoming novel, One Love. Our interview begins at 28.00We've got a Substack publication now! On the last day of the month, we share recommendations for two things we reckon you should read/watch/listen to. The beauty of Substack is you can revisit all our old editions and comment on our episode updates to share your thoughts. Come say hi! Caitlin recommends: You Could Be So Pretty by Holly Bourne*Holly Bourne's latest YA novel takes the pressures of social media and society and notches it up in an intense dystopian exploration of feminism. Thank you to Usborne Books for sending copies for review. Michelle recommends: Weyward by Emilia HartA gripping and emotional story of three generations of women told through alternating timelines. We don't often share interviews ahead of publication, but if you're in the UK and would like to pre-order a signed copy, you can do so through Gay's the Word or Gay Pride Shop. In this interview, we chat about:Why One Love is a slight departure from Matt's previous two novels Exploring class, straight-passing privilege and intersectionality through main characters Danny and GuyEncouraging and allowing people to change their mindsBody image in the queer communityCrowdfunding Matt's novel The Madonna of Bolton and overcoming prejudice in publishingLayton Williams, who recorded the audiobook for Albert Entwhistle, and Nikita on Strictly Come Dancing 2023 and breaking barriers for future generationsBooks and other things mentioned:Only Ever Yours by Louise O'NeillThe Burning by Laura BatesThe Curious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice HallettThe Christmas Appeal by Janice Hallett (listen to our interview)The Flat Share by Beth O'LearyPromising Young Woman (film)Rubaiyat of Omar KhayyamThe Somerton ManThe mystery of The Somerton Man finally solved after 70 yearsI'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamaraThe Longest Shadow (TV series)Happy Head by Josh Silver (listen to our interview)One Day by David NichollsWild Things by Laura Kay (and check out our episodes here and here)Upper...

Dimitri and Khalid take an overly ambitious, ill-advised deep dive into the immense dracularity surrounding the Titanic disaster of 1912, including: The resurgence of Titanic conspiracy theories following the June 2023 Titan disaster, predictive programming in Hauptmann's “Atlantis” and “The Wreck of the Titan; or, Futility”, muckraker and Spiritualist William T. Stead's cursed mummy rumor, a lost bejeweled copy of the possibly cursed Rubaiyat of Omar Kayyam, the Wreck of the Edward Fitzgerald, the Somerset Man, the role of Marconi's wireless telegraph, the inexplicably sus behavior of SS Californian Captain Stanley Lord, Morgan's men covering up the Californian's duplicity, the shameful survival of White Star Line owner J. Bruce Ismay, what JP Morgan was or wasn't up to, and “The Rescue of the Third Class of the Titanic: A Revisionist History”. Part one of two. For access to full-length Patreon episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the SJ Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe to the Al-Wara' Frequency at patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

Rubaiyat of Doc Sifers

The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1

First some process shot accounts of 19th c. affiliations between a lot of the figures we're doing.  Dialectic poetry.  Rubaiyat stanzas.  Then Tennyson's great "Tithonus" with some attention to its similarities and differences from "Ulysses"

Halloween special + season finale! Guest host Gerard Coletta tells Josie and Taylor about one of Australia's most infamous and enduring mysteries: the Somerton man, a.k.a. the tamám shud case. Plus: an unconventional public health intervention starring the pocong, the Javanese shrouded ghost.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 626, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Fountains 1: Architect Nicola Salvi designed this, often called the last great baroque monument in Rome. Trevi Fountain. 2: A fountain in front of this kids' cable network's studios in Orlando spurts out green slime. Nickelodeon. 3: Andrea Del Verrocchio sculpted his bronze "Boy With" this sea creature for a Medici villa. Dolphin. 4: This statue in the Louvre once stood in a fountain on the Greek isle of Samothrace. Winged Victory. 5: King Matyas Corvinus and his beloved Ilonka adorn the Matyas Fountain at this Hungarian city's Royal Palace. Budapest. Round 2. Category: Day Time 1: The first day of the week mentioned by name in "Robinson Crusoe" isn't Friday but this (1st day is a clue). Sunday. 2: In English, it's alphabetically the last day of the week. Wednesday. 3: J. Wellington Wimpy often said, "I will gladly pay you" this day "for a hamburger today". Tuesday. 4: Day of the week that's the English equivalent to the Latin Saturni dies. Saturday. 5: G.K. Chesterton wrote of a "Man Who Was" this day. Thursday. Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 626, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: 1902 1: When Cecil Rhodes died in 1902, his fortune went to establishing scholarships to this school. Oxford University. 2: In 1902 he published his newest Sherlock Holmes tale, "The Hound of the Baskervilles". Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 3: He and Matthew Henson made their first serious attempt to reach the North Pole, but it would take 7 more years. Robert Peary. 4: After 3 years of fighting, this South African war came to an end. the Boer War. 5: In August this "Junior", son of a physician, poet and essayist, was appointed to the Supreme Court. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Round 2. Category: French Menu 1: Canard aux mangues is duck served with this tropical fruit. mango. 2: I crave some sauce moutarde, named for this ingredient; I'll put in on everything. mustard. 3: We know these squashes by an Italian name, but to the French they're courgettes. zucchini. 4: In France this huge melon, called a pasteque, may be filled with wine before it's served. watermelon. 5: Bifteck. Steak. Round 3. Category: Where It's "At" 1: Goldthwait's moniker. Bobcat. 2: It's his political party. Democrat. 3: Omar Khayyam's handiwork. "The Rubaiyat". 4: This neck scarf is named for its resemblance to one worn by Croatian soldiers. Cravat. 5: The Captain and Tennille sang of this kind of beastly love. "Muskrat Love". Round 4. Category: "X" Rated 1: The narration that opened this TV show began, "A mighty princess forged in the heat of battle...". Xena: Warrior Princess. 2: Located in Cincinnati, it's one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. Xavier. 3: The horizontal number line in a Cartesian plane coordinate system. the x-axis. 4: William B. Davis played the mysterious Cigarette-Smoking Man on this Fox show. The X-Files. 5: From the Greek, it's literally someone who likes foreigners and foreign things. a xenophile. Round 5. Category: Throwing The Book At You 1: "Alexey... was the

On December 1, 1948, an unknown man was found lying dead on the sand on Somerton Beach next to the neighborhood of Glenelg, about 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Adelaide, South Australia. He had no money or identification on him, the labels in his clothing were cut off, and his minimal possessions yielded no clues. Further adding to the mystery, a rolled-up scrap of paper with the Persian phrase "tamám shud," translating to "is over" or "is finished," was found in the man's watch pocket around the time of his autopsy. The scrap was later discovered torn from a copy of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, a circa 11th-century collection of poems by Khayyam, known as "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia." The book found tossed into a car after a public appeal by the police appeared to have previous writing indentations on a page adjacent to the torn-out one, revealing a local phone number and text speculated to be a coded message. With no further clues as to the Somerton Man's identity other than an abandoned suitcase left at the Adelaide railway station, a plaster cast was made of the man's bust following the coroner's inquest, and the body was embalmed nine days after its discovery and buried. For almost 74 years, the mystery of the Somerton has intrigued authorities, amateur sleuths, and the general public, including physicist, Electrical and Electronic Engineering professor Dr. Derek Abbott. For over a decade, Dr. Abbott and his team of grad students at the University of Adelaide worked on cracking the code found in the Rubaiyat and attempting to arrange a genetic DNA analysis. In partnership with internationally recognized forensic genealogist Dr. Colleen Fitzpatrick, Abbott and Fitzpatrick announced on July 26, 2022, that they have finally uncovered the identity of Australia's most famous "John Doe." Extracting DNA from chest hairs found in the Somerton Man's plaster cast has led them to a name and an occupation. But will this name lead to solving the remaining puzzle pieces? Pathologists at the time believed he was likely poisoned, but why, and by whom? Was there a Cold War connection, and why did he spend his last day in Adelaide? Circling back to the alternate name for this case, tamám shud, is this mystery really over, is it finished? Visit our webpage on this episode for a lot more information.

DECADES-OLD MYSTERY OF SOMERTON MAN SOLVED - A TRUE CRIME AND COKE QUICKIE The Tamám Shud case, also known as the Mystery of the Somerton Man, is a partially solved case of an unidentified man found dead on 1 December 1948 on The Somerton Park beach, just south of Adelaide South Australia. The case is named after the Persian  phrase tamám shud, meaning "is over" or "is finished", which was printed on a scrap of paper found months later in the fob pocket of the man's trousers. The scrap had been torn from the final page of a copy of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, authored by 12th century poet Omar Khayyam Tamám was misspelt as Tamán in many early reports, and this error has often been repeated, leading to confusion about the name in the media. Following a public appeal by police, the book from which the page had been torn was located. On the inside back cover, detectives read through indentations left from previous handwriting – a local telephone number, another unidentified number, and text that resembled a coded message. The text has not been deciphered or interpreted in a way that satisfies authorities on the case. The case has been considered, since the early stages of the police investigation, "one of Australia's most profound mysteries". There has been intense speculation ever since regarding the identity of the victim, the cause of his death, and the events leading up to it. Public interest in the case remains significant for several reasons: the death occurred at a time of heightened international tensions following the beginning of the Cold War; the apparent involvement of a secret code; the possible use of an undetectable poison; and the inability of authorities to identify the dead man. In addition to intense public interest in Australia during the late 1940s and early 1950s, the case also attracted international attention. South Australia Police consulted their counterparts overseas and distributed information about the dead man internationally, in an effort to identify him. International circulation of a photograph of the man and details of his fingerprints yielded no positive identification. For example, in the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation was unable to match the dead man's fingerprint with prints taken from files of domestic criminals. Scotland Yard was also asked to assist with the case, but could not offer any insights. In recent years, additional evidence has emerged, including an old identification card possibly identifying the Somerton Man as one H. C. Reynolds and an ongoing DNA analysis of hair roots found on the plaster bust. On 19 May 2021, after a series of requests, the body was exhumed for analysis. Police stated that the remains were in "reasonable" condition and were optimistic about the prospect of DNA recovery. On 26 July 2022, Adelaide University professor Derek Abbott claimed that DNA evidence from hair samples removed from his death mask had proven the man to be Carl "Charles" Webb, born on November 16, 1905, in Footscray, in Melbourne, to Richard August Webb and Eliza Amelia Morris Grace; however, SA Police have not yet verified this claim. SOURCES USED: https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/26/australia/australia-somerton-man-mystery-solved-claim-intl-hnk-dst/index.html https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-27/decades-old-mystery-of-somerton-man-solved,/13990830 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamam_Shud_case

Hace un siglo y 10 años se produjo un hecho trágico que ha sido contado de mil formas y que todavía despierta la curiosidad de muchas personas. 110 años atrás el Titanic, el barco de pasajeros más grande y lujoso del mundo, naufragó en su viaje inaugural tras estrellarse contra un iceberg en las heladas aguas del Atlántico Norte. Les contaremos esta historia a través de las metáforas que representa, hablaremos del «libro más maravilloso del mundo» que se sumergió junto con el barco que lo transportaba, narraremos algunos aspectos del mundo previo a la navegación y a la era del petróleo. También les explicaremos por qué el Titanic fue hecho «a la medida del siglo XIX» y desde luego que hablamos de la película de James Cameron. Todo esto en otro especial de nuestro año 02. Notas del episodio Algunos datos y hechos que hay detrás de la historia del Titanic La historia del Rubaiyat «el pasajero más ilustre del Titanic» En este enlace algo de información sobre la «White Star», la naviera que construyó el barco más célebre de la historia «Un libro que profetizó la tragedia» la historia de Morgan Robertson y el hundimiento del Titán Estos son algunos de los mitos que existen sobre la historia del Titanic «Qué es verdad y qué no» en Titanic (1997) de James Cameron   ¡Síguenos en nuestras Redes Sociales! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DianaUribe.fm/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dianauribe.fm/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/dianauribefm?lang=es Pagina web: https://www.dianauribe.fm

Das erste klassische Rennen der Saison 2022 steht an, die  37. Mehl-Mülhens-Rennen - German 2000 Guineas auf Gr. II-Parkett. Eigentlich wird dieses Rennen schon seit 1871 gelaufen und hat eine lange Tradition. Wir starten deshalb diesen Podcast mit einer kleine historischen Exkursion, Catrin Nack und Frauke Delius erklären, was für eine Bedeutung dieses Rennen hat und wie es zu seinem Namen kommt.  Faust auf Faust - das heiße Wochenende für das Gestüt Karlshof und Holger Faust Gleich drei Pferde aus Karlshofer Zucht starten am Sonntag in dem Klassiker, Mylady sogar in eigenen Farben und mit großen Hoffnungen. „Meine Eltern werden in Köln dabei sein, ich reise nach Rom“, erzählt Holger Faust, der nicht nur für die Interessen des Gestüts Karlshof unterwegs ist. Denn er ist zudem Rennstall-Manager, betreut für Darius Racing mit Ardakan im Derby Italiano und mit Rubaiyat  im Premio Presidente della Repubblica gleich zwei Gruppestarter, dazu kommt noch der Hoffnungsträger Open Skies, ein Counterattack-Sohn aus Karlshofer Zucht, der ebenfalls im italienischen Derby läuft. „So ein heißes Wochenende habe ich im Vorhinein noch nie gehabt“, blickt Faust voraus, „so viele Chancen in so großen Rennen an einem Tag, das ist etwas ganz Besonderes.“ Die guten Dinger der RaceBets-Wettexperten Zum zweiten Mal hintereinander läßt Crocus als „Ding der Woche“ das Konto von unserem Wettexperten Ronald Köhler aufblühen, der auch mit Loft im Oleander-Rennen den richtigen Riecher hatte. In dieser Woche steht Andreas Sauren an seiner Seite, um in ausgewählten Rennen in Hannover, Mülheim und Köln die  Sieger zu tippen. Viel Spaß beim Zuhören! Ein Podcast von Frauke Delius.

The Somerton Man case is one that has confounded Australia for almost 75 years now. It all started when an unidentifiable man was found dead on Somerton Beach. The man had no wallet, no form of ID, there was no name written inside of his clothing as would have been typical for the time. And it seemed like all of this was on purpose. Things in the case only got stranger when a tiny rolled up piece of paper was found in a hidden fob pocket in the man's jacket. The words on the paper read “Tamam Shud” and were later determined to have been ripped out of a book of poetry written in the 11th century: The Rubaiyat. In part one we'll dip our toes into the mystery and in part two Ash will be taking everyone to the deep end of the pool for a serious dive into who the heck this man could possibly be and what the heck happened to him. As always, thank you to our sponsors: Native:  Go to Nativedeo.com/morbid, or use promo code morbid at checkout, and get twenty percent off your first order. ShipStation: Sign up using promo code MORBID for a FREE 60-day trial today at ShipStation.com and start saving with every shipment.  That's 2 whole months of discounted shipping, absolutely free! Noom: Start building better habits today. Sign up for your trial at Noom.com/MORBID Notion: Learn more and get started for free at notion.com/morbid Pretty Liter: Go to PrettyLitter.com and use code morbid to save twenty percent on your first order.

Wir haben uns in dieser Woche auf den Weg in die Trainingszentrale von Andreas Wöhler im Gestüt Ravensberg in Gütersloh gemacht. Frauke Delius fragt ihn nach seinen drei Top-Dreijährigen Hengsten und Stuten, den besten älteren Pferden, den zweijährigen Hoffnungsträgern und dem Pferd, in dem er das größte Steigerungspotential sieht. Nach Henk Grewe und Markus Klug, die wir in den Podcast-Folgen 116 und 117 gehört haben, ist Andreas Wöhler der dritte Trainer, den wir besucht haben. Waldemar Hickst und Peter Schiergen kommen in den nächsten beiden Ausgaben dran.  Das erste Gruppe-Rennen der Saison In Düsseldorf geht es in der Kalkmann Frühjahrs-Meile erstmals in der Turf-Saison 2022 auf Gruppe-Parkett um Sieg und Platz. Schafft es der neunjährige Lokalmatador Wonnemond aus dem Stall von Sascha Smrczek noch einmal dieses Rennen zu gewinnen? Oder haben der 2000 Guineas-Sieger Mythico oder der Galopper des Jahres 2019, Rubaiyat, die Nüstern vorn? Unsere RaceBets-Wettexperten Ronald Köhler und Andreas Sauren diskutieren über ausgewählte Rennen in Düsseldorf, nehmen aber auch das Comeback von Gestüt Schlenderhans Mare Australis gegen bärenstarke Konkurrenz im Prix d'Harcourt, Gr. II, in Longchamp genauestens unter die Lupe. Viel Spaß beim Zuhören und Wetten! Ein Podcast von Frauke Delius.

Our 101st Zoomcast (April 7, 2022); Our host #CharlotteSistaCFerrell announces that PBA will be celebrating National Poetry Month throughout April and expressing its theme “Speaking of Intimacy,“ and invites us to share images and thoughts about partner, personal, family, community and spiritual intimacy. We discuss the importance of trust for emotional and physical intimacy. Presenting a familiar type of intimacy, #CharlotteSistaCFerrell reads Love Time, Poem Time, for her book Heart Balm - Just For You. Lesley Hebert reads her culinary oriented poem, Love Apples, and Neall Ryon reads his poems Intimacy and In the Stillness, Dr. Ramona Srinivasan reads Dear Lover and Someone from Shilpa Sekha's book Echoes of Silence. #CharlotteSistaCFerrell plays her spoken word poem, Heart of my Heart - an appeal to a heart that has retreated from intimacy. Available on You Tube, Just for You, Jazzy Spoken Word. We discuss poetry as an act of intimacy with ourselves and Lesley reads A Jug of Wine, A Loaf of Bread and Thou from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Neall closes with Rumi's poem True Love. Sponsored by the 411 Seniors Centre Society; The Government of Canada: New Horizons Grant; and G & F Financial.

Referred to as Australia's greatest mystery, the unknown, nameless Somerton man washed up on the shore of Adelaide in December of 1948, and has to this day never been identified. This death baffles law enforcement to this day, and the case is so opaque that not only do we not know the identity of the Somerton man, we don't know what killed him, and it can't even be said for sure if foul play was involved. The only real clue is a small slip of paper that was found in a secret pocket in the man's clothing, a piece of an ancient Persian poetry book called the Rubaiyat, printed with the words that roughly translate to "The End." Over the years, many theories have arisen about this bizarre death, including spy activity, a loving relationship gone wrong, or suidcide, but no one assumption answers every question. All that can be said for this case, even after so many decades, is that it is one of the world's most perplexing cold cases to date, and one of the most mysterious in history. If you are interested in learning more about this case, all of the sources are listed at crimebistro.com. If you have an opinion or a theory of your own to share, feel free to visit the podcast on YouTube or on Instagram @crimebistropodcast, to leave a comment and see some behind the scenes looks at the exciting cases to come!

Tertulia gastronómica semanal presentada por Jonatan Armengol. Un programa de radio itinerante, fresco y dinámico, que sale de los estudios para conocer de primera mano los mejores restaurantes, tabernas, bodegas, eventos culinarios, catas, concursos… Hablaremos del nuevo restaurante de Jesús Sánchez, con 3 estrellas Michelín, en el Hotel VillaMagna. A continuación viajamos a la cocina brasileña con Mariana en su restaurante Rubaiyat Madrid. Todo maridado con un vino muy particular procedente de la Denominación Pequeñas DO's.

Omar Khayyam laughed and enjoyed the good things of life. His "Rubaiyat," the most popular philosophic poem, is the best of all books to dip into for an alluring thought. (Volume 41, Harvard Classics) "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" first published Jan. 15, 1859.

Bangladeshi filmmaker Rubaiyat Hossain joins us for episode 12. In this conversation, among many topics, we discuss the roles occupied by, and often imposed upon, Bangladeshi women across lines of social class—and the constraints and freedoms found therein. Farah and Rubaiyat also get a bit nostalgic about life in the ever-evolving metropolis of Dhaka and their shared histories at Smith College. This is our first full-length episode without Justin Karas behind the interviewer's mic, but huge thanks to him for continuing the amazing behind-the-scenes post-production work! La cinéaste bangladaise Rubaiyat Hossain se joint à nous pour l'épisode 12. Dans cette conversation, parmi de nombreux sujets, nous discutons des rôles occupés par (et souvent imposés sur) les femmes bangladaises à travers divers classes sociales, ainsi que des contraintes et des libertés qui s'y trouvent. Farah et Rubaiyat deviennent un peu nostalgiques de la vie dans la métropole en constante évolution de Dhaka et de leurs histoires communes au Smith College. Ceci est notre premier épisode complet sans Justin Karas derrière le micro de l'intervieweur, mais un grand merci à lui pour son travail de post-production en coulisses!

Starting off with discussing Queen’s first International Education Week and why this event was such a good match to Rubaiyat’s own research. The purpose of her study is to investigate the influence of first language (L1) and individual culture of multilingual international undergraduate students (MIUS) on their academic English language (L2) writing, and how best to […]

Rubaiyat (poem), Translated by Irina Zheleznova (AZERBAIJANIAN POETRY, Progress Publishers, Moscow) [p. 121]

So you've listened to part 1.......you listened to part 1 right?.....RIGHT?!? Ok cool, just checking. But last  week we left you  on a cliffhanger.  We ended the episode by talking about a book , the "Rubaiyat", that matched the missing scroll removed from it's back page but also had a mysterious phone number written down as well. The number belonged to a nurse named Jessica Thomson. Who, coincidently enough, lived only 1,3000 feet away from where the Somerton Man's dead body was found. This week we get into who this nurse was, what role she may have played in the Somerton Man's life/death, and some theories floating around the internet that may have both her and the Somerton Man pegged as spies.  We also take a look at the work of Derek Abbot who has advanced the investigation of this cold case in recent years. He's also  championed the movement to have the Somerton Man's remains exhumed for DNA analysis for potential identification. As well as his strong commitment to this case ....so strong that he ended up marrying the Somerton Man's (potential) granddaughter.  As always follow us on the stuff Merch Store- http://tee.pub/lic/doEoXMI_oPI Patreon- https://www.patreon.com/Artandjacobdoamerica Website- https://artandjacobdoamerica.com/ Network- https://podbelly.com/ Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/artandjacobdoamerica YouTube Channel- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0rT6h3N2pWtlkxaqgIvaZw?view_as=subscriber Twitter- https://twitter.com/ArtandJacobDoA1 Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/artandjacobdoamerica/ ALSO! Make sure you're checking out our sponsors  https://cavemancoffeeco.com Suiker Apparel: Graphic Statement Tees & Accessories Use Promo code "AMERICA" for 15% off at Caveman Coffee  Use Promo code "Artandjacob" for 10% off at Suiker Apparel  

In the Sea of Ignorance, lying on the edge of time, bordered by Afghan's with heads like hounds, in the words of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, “The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.” --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/david-patrick-wilson/support

   At 7pm on the evening of November 30,1948, John Lyon and his wife were walking along Somerton Beach, just south of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. They noticed a well dressed man lying on the beach with his head propped up against the sea wall. The man was lying with his legs outstretched and his feet crossed. As the couple passed, they saw him raise his right arm and then it fell to the sand. John said it looked like a "drunken attempt to smoke a cigarette". A half hour later they were walking back the same way and noticed the same man was still there. There he was in his nice suit and polished shoes, an odd way to dress for lounging on the beach. He was still with his left arm laid out on the beach. The couple figured he was asleep, maybe passed out drunk. There were mosquitos buzzing all around his face. John commented to his wife "he must be dead to the world".          The next morning John Lyons would discover how right he was. As he was returning from a morning swim, John noticed a cluster of people gathered around the area where he had seen the drunk man the day before. As he approached the group he saw a man slumped over in much the same position as the man from yesterday. The body was lying there, legs out, feet crossed, cigarette half smoked lying on his collar, but this man was not drunk, he was dead. This was the man John and his wife saw the day before, this was the Somerton Man!    This case endures to this day as one of the greatest mysteries of Australia. No one is sure who the man is, why he ended up dead on the beach, or even how he died. Dr. John Barkley Bennett put the time of death at no earlier than 2 a.m., noted the likely cause of death as heart failure, and added that he suspected poisoning. The contents of the man's pockets were spread out on a table: tickets from Adelaide to the beach, a pack of chewing gum, some matches, two combs and a pack of Army Club cigarettes containing seven cigarettes of another, more expensive brand called Kensitas. There was no wallet and no cash, and no ID. None of the man's clothes had any name tags—indeed, in all but one case the maker's label had been carefully snipped away. One trouser pocket had been neatly repaired with an unusual variety of orange thread. A day later a full autopsy was carried out and revealed some more strange things. It revealed that the corpse's pupils were “smaller” than normal and “unusual,” that a dribble of saliva had run down the side of the man's mouth as he lay, and that “he was probably unable to swallow it.” His spleen, meanwhile, “was strikingly large and firm, about three times normal size,” and the liver was distended with congested blood. In his stomach they found his last meal and more blood. He had eaten a pasty, a folded pastry with a savoury filling, typically of seasoned meat and vegetables. The blood in the stomach also suggested poisoning but there was no evidence that the food was the cause of any poisoning. The poisoning theory seemed to concur with the strange behavior the man exhibited on the beach, instead of drunken behavior it could have been the behavior of a man who had been suffering the effects of poisoning. Now, while this theory made sense given the evidence, repeated tests on both his blood and organs by an expert chemist failed to reveal the faintest trace of a poison. “I was astounded that he found nothing,” Dwyer admitted at the inquest. In fact, no cause of death was found. Among all this weirdness, other odd things were noticed. The dead man's calf muscles were high and very well developed; although in his late 40s, he had the legs of an athlete. His toes, meanwhile, were oddly wedge-shaped. Testimony given by one experts went as follows:          I have not seen the tendency of calf muscle so pronounced as in this case…. His feet were rather striking, suggesting—this is my own assumption—that he had been in the habit of wearing high-heeled and pointed shoes.   Another expert had suggested that given these irregularities that maybe the man was actually a ballet dancer.    Putting all this together made… Well… Zero sense. The coroner was informed by an eminent professor that the only practical solution was that a very rare poison had been used—one that “decomposed very early after death,” leaving no trace. The only poisons capable of this were so dangerous and deadly that the professor would not say their names aloud in open court. (My mind goes to Ricin, a highly potent toxin produced in the seeds of the castor oil plant.) Instead, he passed the coroner a scrap of paper on which he had written the names of two possible candidates: digitalis and strophanthin. The professor suspected the latter. Strophanthin is a rare glycoside derived from the seeds of some African plants. Historically, it was used by a little-known Somali tribe to poison arrows.    At this point everyone was thoroughly and extremely confused. They took a full set of fingerprints and sent them all over Australia and then around the work to try and figure out who this guy was. There were no matches anywhere. They started bringing people with missing relatives into the mortuary to see if anyone recognized the man, no one did.    By January 11, the South Australia police had investigated and dismissed pretty much every lead they had. The investigation was now widened in an attempt to locate any abandoned personal possessions, perhaps left luggage, that might suggest that the dead man had come from out of state. This meant checking every hotel, dry cleaner, lost property office and railway station for miles around. But it did produce results. On the 12th, detectives sent to the main railway station in Adelaide were shown a brown suitcase that had been deposited in the cloakroom there on November 30. The staff could remember nothing about the owner, and the case's contents were not much more revealing. The case did contain a reel of orange thread identical to that used to repair the dead man's trousers, but painstaking care had been applied to remove practically every trace of the owner's identity. The case bore no stickers or markings, and get this, a label had been torn off from one side. The tags were missing from all but three items of the clothing inside; these bore the name “Kean” or “T. Keane,” but it proved impossible to trace anyone of that name, and the police concluded–an Adelaide newspaper reported–that someone “had purposely left them on, knowing that the dead man's name was not ‘Kean' or ‘Keane.' ” So, a subterfuge! Spy games! (I just love that word)   The police had brought in another expert, John Cleland, emeritus professor of pathology at the University of Adelaide, to re-examine the corpse and the dead man's possessions. In April, four months after the discovery of the body, Cleland's search produced a final piece of evidence—one that would prove to be the most baffling of all. Cleland discovered a small pocket sewn into the waistband of the dead man's trousers. Previous examiners had missed it, and several accounts of the case have referred to it as a “secret pocket,” but it seems to have been intended to hold a pocket watch. Inside, tightly rolled, was a minute scrap of paper, which, opened up, proved to contain two words, typeset in an elaborate printed script. The phrase read “Tamám Shud.”    Frank Kennedy, the police reporter for the Adelaide Advertiser, recognized the words as Persian, and telephoned the police to suggest they obtain a copy of a book of poetry—the Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam. This work, written in the twelfth century, had become popular in Australia during the war years in a much-loved translation by Edward FitzGerald. It existed in numerous editions, but the usual intricate police enquiries to libraries, publishers and bookshops failed to find one that matched the fancy type. At least it was possible, however, to say that the words “Tamám shud” (or “Taman shud,” as several newspapers misprinted it—a mistake perpetuated ever since) did come from Khayyam's romantic reflections on life and mortality. They were, in fact, the last words in most English translations— not surprisingly, because the phrase means “It is ended.” Weeeeird!   Taken at face value, this new clue suggested that the death might be a case of suicide; in fact, the South Australia police never did turn their “missing person” enquiries into a full-blown murder investigation. But the discovery took them no closer to identifying the dead man, and in the meantime his body had begun to decompose. Arrangements were made for a burial, but—being aware that they were disposing of one of the few pieces of evidence they had—the police first had the corpse embalmed, and a cast taken of the head and upper torso. After that, the body  was buried, sealed under concrete in a plot of dry ground specifically chosen in case it became necessary to exhume it. Oddly enough, As late as 1978, flowers would be found at odd intervals on the grave, but no one could ascertain who had left them there, or why.    In July, a full eight months after the investigation had begun, the search for the right Rubaiyat produced results. On the 23rd, a Glenelg man walked into the Detective Office in Adelaide with a copy of the book and a strange story. Early the previous December, just after the discovery of the unknown body, he had gone for a drive with his brother-in-law in a car he kept parked a few hundred yards from Somerton Beach. The brother-in-law had found a copy of the Rubaiyat lying on the floor by the rear seats. Each man had silently assumed it belonged to the other, and the book had sat in the glove compartment ever since. Alerted by a newspaper article about the search, the two men had gone back to take a closer look. They found that part of the final page had been torn out, together with Khayyam's final words. They went to the police.   Detective Sergeant Lionel Leane took a close look at the book. Almost at once he found a telephone number penciled on the rear cover; using a magnifying glass, he dimly made out the faint impression of some other letters, written in capitals underneath. Finally they had a solid clue!   So where did the clue lead them? Well the phone number was unlisted. But have no fear… They traced the number to a nurse who lived near Somerton Beach. The nurse has never been publicly identified. She is only known by the nickname Jestyn. She revealed to investigators that she had indeed given that book to a friend of hers, a man she knew in the war. She also gave them a name, Alfred Boxall.   Boom! Mystery solved!!! Right? Well maybe not so much. Detectives felt they had figured out the identity of the dead man. Except for the fact that when they tracked down Alfred Boxall in new south wales… He was still alive. Oh and also, the copy of the book he received from the nurse… He still had it and it was still intact. The gentle probing that the nurse received did yield some intriguing bits of information though; interviewed again, she recalled that some time the previous year—she could not be certain of the date—she had come home to be told by neighbors that an unknown man had called and asked for her. And, confronted with the cast of the dead man's face, Jestyn seemed “completely taken aback, to the point of giving the appearance she was about to faint,” Leane said. She seemed to recognize the man, yet firmly denied that he was anyone she knew.    That left the faint impression Sergeant Leane had noticed in the Glenelg Rubaiyat. Examined under ultraviolet light, five lines of jumbled letters could be seen, the second of which had been crossed out. The first three were separated from the last two by a pair of straight lines with an ‘x' written over them. It seemed that they were some sort of code. They sent the message to Naval Intelligence, home to the finest cipher experts in Australia, and allowed the message to be published in the press. This produced a frenzy of amateur codebreaking, almost all of it worthless, and a message from the Navy concluding that the code appeared unbreakable:             “From the manner in which the lines have been represented as being set out in the original, it is evident that the end of each line indicates a break in sense.   There is an insufficient number of letters for definite conclusions to be based on analysis, but the indications together with the acceptance of the above breaks in sense indicate, in so far as can be seen, that the letters do not constitute any kind of simple cipher or code.   The frequency of the occurrence of letters, whilst inconclusive, corresponds more favourably with the table of frequencies of initial letters of words in English than with any other table; accordingly a reasonable explanation would be that the lines are the initial letters of words of a verse of poetry or such like.”   The Australian police never cracked the code or identified the unknown man. The nurse, Jestyn died in 2007, so there's no possibility of ever getting her to reveal why she reacted the way she did when seeing the cast of the man. And when the South Australia coroner published the final results of his investigation in 1958, his report concluded with the admission:   I am unable to say who the deceased was… I am unable to say how he died or what was the cause of death.   And that's where the case sits   And that's it… Thank you guys and good night.   Oh wait… You want more? Fine.   The information on the initial case and investigation came from a great article on smithsonianmag.com   There… Still not enough…ok ok   So what about this nurse then. Turns out her actual name is Jessica Thompson and she passed in 2007 as stated earlier. Police had always felt she knew more than she was letting on. Her daughter would later say in an interview that she thought her mother knew the dead man. The reason her message was not released earlier is because she requested a pseudonym as she felt her connection to this case would be embarrassing. Why? Interesting. Some think that her real name is important because it may hold the key to deciphering the code. As stated earlier, her reaction to seeing the cast of the man led many people to think that she definitely knew the man. In a video we found the man who made the bust describes how when Jessica was brought in to see the bust she saw the likeness when a sheet was removed from it and immediately looked down and would not look at the bust again for the rest of the interview. It was during that interview that she gave them the information of Alfred Boxall. So the question remains with Jessica… Did she know the man? If she did know the man, why was she so informed to distance herself from this case? Was she involved in some way?   As far as the man himself, there are many theories floating around. One of the most prevailing theories is that he was a spy! We got us some James bond shit going down! Or maybe not. Others say he was involved in the black market as evidence but the clipped labels on his clothing. So he was dealing in babies and knock off clothing on the black market!!! Maybe not.  Well let's look into these theories and see what you guys think.    One man who thinks there is a spy connection is Gordon Cramer, a former British detective with links to former intelligence officers. He says parts of the code match with Morse code letters found in the World War II Radio Operators Manual. He believed micro writing hidden within the letters of the five lines of code appeared to refer to the de Havilland Venom — a British post-war jet, still on the drawing board at the time.   He also saw the Somerton Man's death coinciding with the start of the Cold War and, according to Mr Cramer, the visit to Adelaide of high-ranking British officials and weapons trials at Woomera — the later site of nuclear testing. So this guy thinks that's a link to show he may have been some sort of cold war spy. Other things that people say pointing to him being a spy include the family of our nurse friend telling 60 minutes Jestyn, aka Jessica Thomson may have been a Russian spy! And even crazier… That she may have had a son with the Somerton Man! This theory is further backed by another article we found. Derek Abbott, a professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Adelaide has spent over a decade studying the case.                “What makes this kind of go viral is, I think, just all the strange things. It kind of just gives you that creepy shiver down your spine.”    DNA, Abbott said, is a key to solving the mystery. “I'm not so interested in how he died, but giving him his name back is the most important thing.”   Abbott also noticed that the man also had two distinctive features: canines next to middle teeth and ears with large upper hollows. After examining the mysterious letters of the code in the late 2000s, Dr. Abbott said, “I kind of fell down the rabbit hole.” In 2009 he tried to track down Mrs. Thomson (our nurse friend) for an interview but found that she had died two years earlier. She had a son who had been a DUN DUN DUNNNN professional ballet dancer, Dr. Abbott learned, and photos showed he had distinctive teeth and ears similar to the Somerton man's. Oh shit son! Abbott decided to then track down this man but unfortunately he had died mere months before Abbott made his discovery. COINCIDENCE?? He found out that Thomson's son had a daughter of his own… So guess what… He tracked her down. And guess what… SHE was dead… Actually no that's not true she's still alive. The woman's name was Rachel Egan. Ms. Egan had never heard of the Somerton man, but she agreed to help Dr. Abbott in his effort to name the man who might be her grandfather. Dr. Abbott laid out that scenario: “The Somerton man had Jessica Thomson's number. He was found dead a five minutes' walk from her house. Rachel's dad was only 1 year old at the time, with no father. So you kind of put two and two together — but until it's absolutely confirmed, you never know.”   And Dr. Abbott acknowledged that, if usable DNA was obtained from the exhumed remains, it might in fact show his wife had no link to the Somerton man. “All I can say is there's lots of twists and turns in this case, and every turn is pretty weird,” he said.    Want another weird twist? Abbott and Egan fell in love and were married in 2010. And yes that part is true.    So, while he himself doesn't necessarily back the spy theory, his life of work could lend credence to said theory.    Several years ago, Ms. Egan had her DNA analyzed, and links were found to people in the United States (including relatives of some guy named Thomas Jefferson… yes, that Thomas Jefferson). More recently, links were also found to the grandparents of the man that Jessica Thomson eventually married. “So my head is spinning,” Dr. Abbott said. “Does that prove she's not connected now to the Somerton man? Or does that prove that somehow the Somerton man is related to her assumed grandfather? It's getting all complicated, so complicated that I'm just going to shut up now and let the DNA from the Somerton man speak for itself.”   Another strange connection that could lend itself to a spot connection is the remarkable similarities to the Mystery of the Isdal woman. On November 29, 1970, while hiking Isdalen (Ice Valley) near Bergen, Norway, a father and his two daughters witnessed a horrifying sight. Wedged between the rocks of the hiking trail, they discover a badly burnt female body. The labels of her clothes had been cut off and any distinctive marks had been removed as if to make her completely unrecognizable. The front side of her body had been severely burnt and she was found in a boxer's position, fists clenched. When you look into this case there are many similarities to the Somerton Man that we may just go ahead and cover in a bonus!   Again, Thomson's own daughter believed the Somerton Man to be a spy and that her own mother may have also been a spy. She said her mother taught English to migrants and spoke fluent Russian. Jessica had once told her daughter that “someone higher than the police force” also knew the identity of the mysterious man.   Another theory is that the Somerton Man was involved in illegal activities involving the black market that sprung up after WWII. People point to the missing labels on the clothes as pointing toward that possibility. Abbott who we discussed earlier had said that this seems a more likely route than the spy route. If he was involved in some sort of black market goings on or something similar, it would definitely explain the urge for someone to go to many lengths to keep his identity a secret. But what would the rest of the clues mean? Was the page or of the book meant to send a message to someone else? Some think the code found may have had something to do with black market shipments or deliveries, or possibly locations. Without solid evidence though this is pretty much all just speculation.  Many people are also subscribing to the theory that this was just a case of a jilted lover. They believe that the Somerton Man and the nurse were lovers and that they had a child together. After this some people think that Thomson rejected the Somerton Man for some reason and it led to the man taking his own life. This theory seems most plausible but at the same time, why has no one been able to figure out who this man was. It also makes sense in the line of Thomson being embarrassed by being involved in the case and her unwillingness to discuss it with police as she was dating another man at the time of the death who would eventually become her husband.    If you really want to get crazy with the cheese whiz so to speak, there are small groups of people that really are looking at the fringe theories. If you look into the far corners of reddit and other similar sites you'll find the usual theories of time travel and extraterrestrial origins. Those folks are definitely in the small minority but they are out there and most likely started by Mr. Moody.    Ok so where does all the craziness leave us? Well… We don't know. The Somerton man's body was exhumed earlier this year and we haven't been able to find any updates on any sort of DNA analysis, because as we know, these things tend to take some time. In articles as recent as July of this year they are still waiting on results. Part of the problem is that getting quality DNA samples from that old and degraded of a body can sometimes be difficult. So, while there are many theories on who the man was and the circumstances around his death no one knows for sure who he was and what happened. The one person who seemed to have at least some sort of knowledge of the man passed away without ever revealing her secrets. The other difficult thing is that every time a question seems to be answered it only opens up even more questions. Is the code really a code? Was the man a spy? Was the nurse a spy? Was anyone a spy? Was chainsaw involved? Where was he in 1948? As the old tootsie pop commercial used to say… the world may never know!  Best horror movies of 1948   https://www.pickthemovie.com/best-horror-movies-of-1948

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Fiorella Files Episdoe 56-The Silk Roads, The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam, The Bookseller Of Tehran The Silk Roads – Peter Frankopan If you want to read a really challenging book, this is the one for you. The Silk Roads looks at the history of the East, encouraging readers to see the East rather than the West as the centre of the world and to consider the major events of history – including western involvement in the East – from a completely different perspective. Highly informative if difficult reading.  The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Float away across the centuries into quatrains of a stunning poem that may or may not have been written by the legendary polymath, Omar Khayyam. Since its translation into English by Edward FitzGerald in the nineteenth century, the Rubaiyat has been enduringly popular among western readers and remains one of the most influential poems translated during the Victorian era.  The Bookseller of Tehran – Marjan Kamali It is the 1950s and Iran is in a state of political flux, with different factions fighting for control of the country's soul. In the midst of this turbulence, two young people fall in love only to be parted on what should have been their wedding day. What happened to young Bahman on that fateful afternoon? Why did he vanish from the life of the girl he claimed to love? What part did Mr Fakhri, the enigmatic bookseller, play in all this? It will take years of searching for the truth to emerge… Our Readers And Listeners Keep Us In Print & On The Air! Click here to subscribe to The CRUSADE Channel's Founders Pass Member Service & Gain 24/7 Access to Our Premium, New Talk Radio Service. www.crusadechannel.com/go What Is The Crusade Channel? The CRUSADE Channel, The Last LIVE! Radio Station Standing begins our LIVE programming with our all original CRUSADE Channel News hosted by Ron Staffard. Coupled with Mike “The King Dude” Church entertaining you during your morning drive and Rick Barrett giving you the news of the day and the narrative that will follow during your lunch break! We've interviewed over 300 guests, seen Brother Andre Marie notch his 200th broadcast of Reconquest; The Mike Church Show over 1200 episodes; launched an original LIVE! News Service; written and produced 4 Feature Length original dramas including The Last Confession of Sherlock Holmes and set sail on the coolest radio product ever, the 5 Minute Mysteries series! We were the ONLY RADIO outlet to cover the Impeachment Trials of President Trump from gavel to gavel! Now that you have discovered The Crusade, get 30 days for FREE of our premium News-Talk Radio service just head to: https://crusadechannel.com OR download our FREE app: https://apps.appmachine.com/theveritasradionetworkappIti-  If you are interested in supporting small business, be sure to check out the official store of the Crusade Channel, the Founders Tradin Post! Not to mention our amazing collection of DVD's, Cigars, T-Shirts, bumper stickers and other unique selection of items selected by Mike Church! Find out about the The Silk Roads

"Go quietly amid the noise and the haste..." The Desiderata is one of the smallest and most potent verses of western mysticism. Osho places it on a par with Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat and Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, and sees it a significant companion for those on the path.

Episode 4 : The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam… and Butterflies. Poem 1 : 'The Father of Butterflies' by Cameron Semmens; translation into Farsi by Ramak Bamzar. Music : ‘Viewed from The Climb' from the album ‘Separate Journeys' by Spike Mason www.spikemason.com Poem 2 : 'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam' compiled by Kamran Kuhestany; translation into English by Dr. Rosen. Music : Rod Gear www.rodgearmusic.com Title music : ‘A Warm Welcome' by Jared Haschek: jaredhaschek.com Podcast produced by Cameron Semmens : www.webcameron.com Photography and graphic design by Ramak Bamzar : www.ramakbamzar.com

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Bienvenidos a ERA Magazine, el podcast de la música independiente española. En el capítulo de hoy, nos adentramos en la psicodelia, el rock, la electrónica más underground de los murcianos Espiricom. Buenos días, como siempre, os quiero recordar que podéis ser mecenas de ERA Magazine, y ayudarnos a conocer muchos más grupos de música independiente de nuestro país. Es muy sencillo, entras en eramagazine.fm/mecenas y desde sólo 1 euro al mes, contribuyes a que sigamos descubriendo propuestas muy interesantes. Y, además, por ser mecenas tendrás descuentos y regalos relacionados con la música que escuchas en este podcast. Venga, entra y anímate a formar parte de esta gran familia independiente que pretende ser ERA Magazine. Espiricom lo forman dos conocidos del underground murciano: Alfonso Alfonso (ex-Schwarz y Artificiero) y Fran del Valle (también ex-Schwarz y Perro). Juntos han confeccionado este Trapezoide (Desorden Sonoro), siete canciones en las que guitarras, sintetizadores y baterías se entrecruzan, se dan la mano, pero siguen un rumbo dispar. Una búsqueda deliberada de la asimetría para encontrar la heterodoxia, del orden natural para transitar un camino propio, disidente. Espiricom no destaca por ser una música de fácil asimilación. Su rock, electrónica y psicodelia se sitúa donde siempre han querido estar: en el underground. Alfonso nos presentó las siguientes canciones: «Vino ardiente». «Rubaiyat». «Tecnomago». «Trapezoide». Con esta canción nos despedimos por hoy. También recuerda, que si quieres ayudar a este podcast, y seguir disfrutando de la música de muchos más grupos, visita eramagazine.fm/mecenas, y desde 1 euro al mes contribuyes a que sigamos descubriendo más propuestas emergentes. Sé un mecenas de ERA Magazine. Porque recuerda: a la gente le encanta la música indie, pero todavía no lo sabe. Espiricom Trapezoide (Desorden Sonoro, 2019) Facebook | Bandcamp La entrada #524 Espiricom, el rock y la electrónica underground se publicó primero en ERA Magazine.

PODCAST #13: SUFI LYRICS IN THE EGYPTIAN DESERT by Martin Bidney My month-long spiritual pilgrimage at the Sekem desert farming settlement in 2011 was guided by Sufi mentors in the Religion of Love. I Poet Omar as my Sufi mentor. Medieval Sufi Omar's most famous quatrain, from his Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam as translated by Victorian interpreter Edward FitzGerald, begins, “A book of Verses underneath the Bough.” This world-famed four-line love song introduced me to the SUFI RELIGION OF LOVE. I emulate the “Book of Verses” love song in these poems, where I shorten the Omar lines by one beat to sweeten the harmonies: 82. So went the caravan away 77. The courtyard – filled with leaves and blooms, 73. Our worldly life was at an end [a woman's love for God] 63. The eyes that light the sky of her [a man loves a woman and God] 90. A vast and mighty [love of the Unnamable, my epigraph and epitaph] I also love Omar's lines beginning Myself when young did eagerly frequent and ending with the words I came like water, and like wind I go. This I emulate here: 69. Like water come, like wind I go [love every moment] 29. Now labor carefully to pay [theme of carpe diem, seize/love the day] II My Medieval Mentors in Sufi Religion of Love IBN ARABI 21. The curlew painted RUMI 22. The theme of union 34. Of poet Attar, Rumi said RABI'A 31. Just pure surrender – that's enough 46. O Lord, I hope each worldly thing III Shahid Alam as My Neighbor-mentor in Sufi Religion of Love 83-85 It is the month of Ramadan [legend of lifegiving love] 86 The coachman told: the glowing rose [miracle parable of love] 71 My friend, called Witness of the World [allusion to the Eastern Romeo & Juliet]

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In a major series for Radio 3, we rediscover some of the key thinkers and achievements from the Islamic Golden Age. The period ranges from 750 to 1258 CE and in these twenty essays, we'll hear about architecture, invention, medicine, mathematics, innovation and philosophy. In today's essay, Narguess Farzad, senior fellow in Persian at SOAS (School of African and Oriental Studies), recounts the tale of two remarkable and influential women poets, Rabia Balkhi and Mahsati Ganjavi.Rabia Balkhi was said to be a great beauty of royal birth who died a tragic death. She lived in the southern part of Afghanistan and from a young age, she loved to write poems on love and beauty. She fell in love with her brother's Turkish slave, Baktash. They began to meet in secret and write poetry to each other. When her brother, Hares, found out, he ordered her jugular vein be cut and that she be left to die a slow and painful death imprisoned and alone in her bathroom. As she was dying, Rabia found the strength to write her final poems with her blood on the walls of the bathroom. Her poems were not recited in public during her life time but won hearts and minds throughout the ages.Mahsati Ganjavi was an eminent Iranian poetess and composer of quatrains. She grew up in Ganjeh, now the second largest city of Azerbaijan. Mahsati was contemporary to Seljukid Dynasty who ruled most parts of Iran from 1037 to 1194 AD. She was a poetess laureate to the courts of Sultan Mahmud II (1118-1131) and his uncle Sultan Sanjar (1131-1157). Her quatrains (Rubaiyat), were full of joy and optimism - on the joy of living and the fullness of love.Producer: Mohini Patel.

On Thursday April 4th, 2013 the Hermetic Hour, with host Poke Runyon, will present a discussion on the Sufis and Islamic mysticism. This is a subject that is impossible to fathom and difficult to summarize. The reason it is so difficult to understand lies in Sufism's passion for non-literal, allegorical and paradoxical teaching deriving in part from its fear of being persecuted by orthodox Islam for heresy; a very real fear which endangers Sufi circles all over the world at the present time. We will briefly outline the history of Sufism and highlight the work some of its legendary teachers with their profound, and sometimes humorous parables. We will recall the famous Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, comparing the Western version to what Khayyam actually wrote. Gurdjieff's debt to Sufism will be noted. We will outline the so-called "Arabic Kabbalah" sometimes called "Abjad", and discuss the controversial book "The Other Islam" on present day Sufism by Stephen Schwartz. So, if you want to find out what you don't know about the Sufis tune in and be mystified.