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Mr. ______ Gagalbhai was born in a different era, in 1873, to a weaver of Ahmedabad With goods hanging from their shoulders, both father and son would scour the countryside in search of buyers Along with Chandulal Mahadevia, a friend, and Arthur Shorrock, an Englishman who knew some British textile-machinery manufacturers in Lancashire, he took over the management of a small mill in Ahmedabad, and named it the Shorrock Mill.

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Mr. ______ Gagalbhai was born in a different era, in 1873, to a weaver of Ahmedabad

With goods hanging from their shoulders, both father and son would scour the countryside in search of buyers

Along with Chandulal Mahadevia, a friend, and Arthur Shorrock, an Englishman who knew some British textile-machinery manufacturers in Lancashire, he took over the management of a small mill in Ahmedabad, and named it the Shorrock Mill.

AND THE ANSWER IS

MAFATLAL

A sher/shayari in Urdu contains 2 lines. SO what is the name given to poetry in Arabic which consists of 4 lines and derives its name from the Arabic 'arbaa' meaning Four

AND THE ANSWER IS

RUBAIYAT

rUBAAI is Arabic for "quatrain", and is used to describe a Persian quatrain, or itsderivative form in English and other languages. The plural form of the word RUBAIYAT describe a collection of such quatrains

What is so named because it is located three miles downriver from Middletown, Pennsylvania

3 mile Island

They are garden terraces around the Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. They are one of the most visited tourist attractions in Israel.

The architect is Fariborz Sahba from Iran

The terraces represent the first eighteen disciples of the Báb, who were designated "Letter of the Living"

AND THE ANSWER IS

TERRACES OF BAHAI, Or Hanging Gardens of Haifa

The architect of terraces of Bahai/hanging gardens of Haifa is Fariborz Sahba from Iran

He is also the chief-editor of Varqá,

What is his third claim to fame?

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841), and The Moonstone (1868) are the primary competitors for what?

FIRST DETECTIVE NOVEL

AND THE ANSWER IS

Only two known photographs (or even copies) of who/why?

And the answer is

BAHA'ULLAH

There are two known photographs of Bahá'u'lláh. Outside of pilgrimage, Bahá'ís prefer not to view his photo in public, or even to display it in their private home

Born Mírzá usayn-’Alí Núrí his name means Ḥ'"Glory of God"'

, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen." (Rev. 1:7 KJV)

"But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass ___________(the glory of the Lord),

are changed into the same image from glory to glory ___________even as by the Spirit of the Lord…."

"For then we saw through a glass, darkly; but now face to face."

-- 2 Cor.13:18; 1 Cor. 13:12 KJV

Thou didst ask as to chapter 14, verse 30 of the Gospel of John, where the Lord Christ saith, 'Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the Prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in Me.' The Prince of this world is the Blessed Beauty ; and 'hath nothing in Me' signifieth: after Me all will draw grace from Me, but He is independent of Me, and will draw no grace from Me. That is, He is rich beyond any grace of Mine.

( Selections, p. 170)

_________ a male-sperm descendent of King David, fulfills prophecy for the second coming of Christ in the potency of the "everlasting Father" seated upon the Throne of King David which is to last forever (John 14:6; Isaiah 9:6-7)

For over 2300 years, the throne line of King David passed down as a legal inheritance from father to son in the Davidic Kings of the ancient family line known as Badustaniyan and Bawand

Which 19th century leader's life was apparently was thus prophecied.

And the answer is

BAHA'ULLAH

Le Chevalier  C. Auguste _________ is not a professional detective and his motivations for solving the mysteries throughout the three stories change. Using what the author termed "ratiocination", _________ combines his considerable intellect with creative imagination, even putting himself in the mind of the criminal But the character's name seems to imply duping or deception

 The character Porfiry Petrovich in Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment was influence

 In the first Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet (1887), Doctor Watson compares Holmes to _________

DUPIN

mathematician, astronomer, philosopher and poet. He also wrote treatises on mechanics, geography, and music.

Recognized as the author of one of the most important treatises on algebra before modern times as reflected in his Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra giving a geometric method for solving cubic equations by intersecting a hyperbola with a circle

He is thought to have been born into a family of tent makers and hence his name.

And the answer is

OMAR KHAYYAM

Back to the old time before radio communication was developed, military used Morse code to communicate.

From the earliest days of wireless communication, the Morse code letter R (dit-dah-dit) has been used to indicate 'O.K. -- understood.

When radio communication came to replace the old technology, the letter "R" was still used to represent the "yes." However, military faced difficulty to pronouce the letter "R" especially in critical situation.

So they chose the one from 'Able, Baker, Charlie' RAF phonetic alphabet code.

And the answer is

ROGER THAT

This English rock band formed in 1976 in Greater Manchester was initially called X In reference to the song "Warszawa" by David Bowie.

tHEIR later name they took from 'The House of Dolls' 1955 novella by Ka-tzetnik 135633. The novella describes "Y", which were allegedly groups of Jewish women in the concentration camps during World War II who were kept for the sexual pleasure of Nazi soldiers.

And the answer is

JOY DIVISION

Early name was WARSAW

With the subtitle 'SAGA Of an american family' X tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured as an adolescent and sold into slavery in the United States, and follows his life and the lives of his descendants in the U.S. down to Y

Brought up on the stories of his elderly female relatives―including his Grandmother Cynthia, whose father was emancipated from slavery in 1865― Y purported to have traced his family history back to "the African," Kunta Kinte, captured by slave traders in 1767. For generations, each of Kunta's enslaved descendants passed down an oral history of Kunta's experiences as a free man in Gambia, along with the African words he taught them. Y researched African village customs, slave-trading and the history of African Americans in America―including a visit to the griot (oral historian) of his ancestor's African village. He created a colorful and imaginative history of his family from the mid-eighteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, which led him back to his heartland of Africa.

The novel spent 46 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller List, including 22 weeks in that list's top spot.

As early as 1914, a Carnegie Endowment report on the Balkan Wars points out that village-burning and _________ had traditionally accompanied Balkan wars, regardless of the ethnic group in power. However, the term "_________" was probably used first by Vuk Karadžić, to describe what happened to the Turks in Belgrade when the city was captured by the Karadjordje's forces in 1806.[13] Konstantin Nenadović wrote, in his biography of the famous Serbian leader published in 1883, that after the fighting "the Serbs, in their bitterness (after 500 years of Turkish occupation), slit the throats of the Turks everywhere they found them, sparing neither the wounded, nor the woman, nor the Turkish children

ETHNIC CLEANSING

About what band name did the founder later explained that the name derived "from the idea of a pistol, a pin-up, a young thing, a better-looking assassin". Not given to modesty, false or otherwise, he added, "[I] launched the idea in the form of a band of kids who could be perceived as being bad.

SEX PISTOLS

SID VICIOUS

Latin for "auspicious" or "lucky" X is the protagonist of a classic German legend. Though a highly successful scholar, he is dissatisfied, and makes a deal with the devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures.

The adjective ______ian, are often used to describe an arrangement in which an ambitious person surrenders moral integrity in order to achieve power and success: the proverbial "deal with the devil". The terms can also refer to an unquenchable thirst for knowledge

The story was popularised in England by Christopher Marlowe, who gave it a classic treatment in his play, The Tragical History of Doctor ______us. In Goethe's reworking of the story 200 years later, ______ becomes a dissatisfied intellectual who yearns for "more than earthly meat and drink".

Rembrandt's depiction of X

And the answer is

FAUST

Dr.Faustus

X is a demon featured in German folklore. He originally appeared in literature as the demon in the Faust legend, and he has since appeared in other works as a stock character version of the Devil himself

In the 1725 version which was read by Goethe, X is a Devil in the form of a greyfriar summoned by Faust in a wood outside Wittenberg.

X is also the name of one of the three "Prime Evils" on the PC game Diablo II

Mentioned in the 2005 film "Thank You For Smoking" to portray the main character, a spokesman and lobbyist for the tobacco industry.

Delacroix's Depiction of X

And the answer is

MEPHISTOPHELES

This is a term invented to describe one possible result of a severe nuclear meltdown in which molten reactor core components penetrate their containment vessel and building. The term is misleading, since molten material from such an event could not melt through the crust of the Earth and reach ----------------------

The dangers of such a hypothetical accident were popularized by the 1979 film, The China Syndrome starring Jane Fonda.

The film was released on 16 March 1979, 12 days before the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania- which helped later in the ticket sales of the film

And the answer is

CHINA SYNDROME