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Iranian Students Bag 10 Gold Medals at 2018 Expo-Sciences Asia Art & Culture October 29, 2018 3 This Day in History Iranian Students Bag 10 Gold (October 29) Today is Sunday; 7th of the Iranian month of Aban 1397 solar hijri; corresponding to 19th of the Islamic month of Safar 1440 lunar hijri; and October 29, 2018, of the Christian Gregorian Calendar. Medals at 2018 Expo-Sciences Asia 2557 solar years ago, on this day in 539 BC, Iran’s monotheist Achaemenian Emperor, engineering, Kian Aftabzadeh in new year since 2010. It aims to promote Cyrus the Great, after conquering the Babylonian Empire, allowed Israelites to return energies, Mahdiyeh Ghasemzadeh scientific culture among young people to their homeland from which they had been forcibly brought to by the polytheist tyrant, Nebuchadnezzar, and kept in bondage from almost 70 years in what is now Iraq. The Israelites and Shaghayegh Emadi in chemistry, around the world with their projects had suffered for their disobedience of the laws of Moses and their killing of several prophets Sajjad Ahmadi in Bioelectromagnetics, through a scientific exhibition in a multi- of God. Many of the monotheistic Israelites chose to stay in the Achaemenian Empire, and Fatemeh Shojaee in architecture, cultural environment. The programs God raised prophets amongst them such as Daniel, whose shrine in the southwestern Iranian Mohammad Kazemi and Mohammad of the ESA includes the exhibition of city of Shoush, is a centre of pilgrimage for Muslims. Of the liberated Israelites who returned Soleimani in neuroscience, Fatemeh scientific projects, cultural and scientific to their homeland, most of them continued their wicked ways and five centuries later when Hassanpour in astronomy, and visits, leisure activities, workshops, God raised Prophet Jesus in their midst, they ganged up against him and tried to kill him and Hania Jebeli and Hania Ahmadi in animation, and conferences. betray him to their polytheist overlords, the Romans, but the Virgin-Born Messiah was lifted alive to the heavens, while his betrayer, Judas Iscariot, was crucified the nanotechnology. Also, Nazanin The International Movement for 1269 lunar years ago, on this day in 171 AH, Iranian Islamic astronomer, Abu-Ma’shar Barzi pocketed a gold medal besides Leisure Activities in Science and Ja’far ibn Mohammad al-Balkhi, was born in the Khorasani city of Balkh (presently in an especial international award in Technology (MILSET - Mouvement Afghanistan). He spent most of his life in Iraq, especially in Baghdad and died in the city of al- Nanochemistry. International pour le Loisir Scientifique Waset. He used numerous sources written in Pahlavi, Arabic, Sanskrit, Syriac, and Greek. He Iranian students also had a meeting et Technique) is a non-governmental, believed that all sciences have a divine origin, and the signs of God’s revelation are observed with the Iranian ambassador to South non-profit and politically independent in every science. He wrote a a large number of books; the most important of which is “al- Mudkhal al-Kabir”. He wrote a number of practical manuals on astrology that profoundly Korea Saeed Badamchi Shabestari. The youth organization, which aims at influenced Muslim intellectual history and, through Latin translations, that of Europe. Of his envoy appreciated the students’ efforts developing scientific culture among works used by Roger Bacon and others are “Kitab ad-Dalalaat ala’l-Ittesalaat wa-Qiranaat TEHRAN(MNA) – Iranian students Organized by MILSET, Expo-Sciences and presented them with some awards. young people through the organization al-Kawakeb” (Book of Indications of the Planetary Conjunctions), and “Kitab al-Milal wa’l- who had participated in the 5th edition Asia 2018 was held in Daejeon, South The MILSET Expo-Sciences Asia of science-and-technology programmes, Duwal” (Book on Nations and Dynasties). of Expo-Sciences Asia in South Korea, Korea, from October 18 to 23. (ESA) is a non-competitive regional including science fairs, science camps, 514 solar years ago, on this day in 1504 AD, Korean artist, writer, calligraphist, and noted gained 10 gold medals and one special Gold medalists of Iran in the event science fair of the MILSET Expo- congresses and others activities of high poet, Shin Saimdang was born and raised in Gangneung. Her artwork is known for delicate international award. Sciences International held every other quality. beauty; insects, flowers, butterflies, orchids, grapes, fish and landscapes were favorite themes. are Shayan Asef and Elham Zare in Approximately 40 paintings of ink and stonepaint colours have survived, although many others are assumed to exist. Unfortunately, not much of her calligraphy is left but her style was greatly praised in her time, with high-ranking officials and connoisseurs writing records of her work. As the mother of the Korean Confucian scholar Yi I, she is often held up as a Biggest Project on Iran Holy Defense model of Confucian ideals. Among her poems is “Thinking of Parents”, which she dedicated to her mother. She died in 551 AD at the age of 48, after moving to Pyongan. Shin Saimdang TEHRAN (IFILM) - “The Hossein Mahdavian, the movie is is the first woman to appear on a South Korean banknote, the 50,000 won note, first issued Midday Event” sequel is set to be currently on the shooting stage in in June 2009. the hugest cinematic project on Tehran. 95 solar years ago, on this day in 1923 AD, with the formal dissolving of the 400-year old Ottoman caliphate, and the 623-year old Ottoman Dynasty, Turkey was declared a laic and Iran-Iraq war, a media report says. “Midday Even”t, a political secular republic by the western-oriented Mustafa Kamal Pasha, who styled himself as Ata ‘According to the Saturday drama that portrays the terrorist Turk (Father of the Turks). media report, “Midday Event: atrocities of the Mujahedin-e 92 solar years ago, on this day in 1926 AD, prominent leader of Iran’s Constitutional Blood Trap” which is the second Khalq Organization (MKO) in Movement, Ayatollah Seyyed Hassan Modarres, escaped an assassination attempt against him by Reza Khan of the British installed Pahlavi regime. Two years later, installment to highly acclaimed Iran during the 1980s, crowned the Ayatollah, who in 1925 had unsuccessfully opposed the dissolution of the Qajarid original title is expected to be best at the 35th Fajr Film Festival dynasty, was arrested along with his family and friends and exiled to Khaf and then a blockbuster in Iran domestic in 2017. to Kashmar, where in 1937 he was fatally poisoned on the orders of Reza Khan and box-office with the largest-scale The follow-up to the original achieved martyrdom at the age of 67. A product of the seminaries of Isfahan and holy Najaf in Iraq, in 1910, he was chosen by Najaf’s ulema and sent to Tehran to supervise budget for a film on Iran Holy will use a great deal of military the laws passed by the Majlis (parliament), to make sure they are not against the rules Defense against Iraq’s former machinery and equipment as of shar’ia. In 1914, he was elected as a Majlis representative of Tehran. In 1916, Baath regime in the 1980s. well as a large number of extras during World War I, he moved to Iraq, Syria, and Turkey together with some political Directed by Mohammad- A still from “The Midday Event” . besides the main cast. figures, and served as the Minister of Justice in a cabinet formed in exile by Nezam os- Saltaneh. After returning to Iran, he was elected in the Majlis elections a few more times. Modarres fought against the presence of British forces in Iran, vigorously opposing the proposed 1919 agreement that would have transformed Iran into a British protectorate. His martyrdom anniversary (December 1) is marked in the Islamic Republic of Iran as World’s Smallest Optical Gyroscope Majlis Day (Day of the parliament). Ayatollah Modarres was among the teachers of the Father of the Islamic Revolution, Imam Khomeini (RA), and his portrait is depicted on LOS ANGELES (Dispatches) - A Caltech engineers led by the obverse of the Iranian 100 rials banknote. new tiny optical gyroscope fits on Ali Hajimiri, Bren Professor 70 solar years ago, on this day in 1948 AD, Zionist troops stormed the Safsaf village the tip of your finger and could find of Electrical Engineering and in the Jaliliyeh (Galilee) region, and massacred over 70 Palestinian men, women, and its way into drones and spacecraft in Medical Engineering in the children. The victims were tied and shot in cold blood and some of the women were raped by the Israeli criminals. the future. Division of Engineering and 62 solar years ago, on this day in 1956 AD, Zionist troops invaded the Sinai Peninsula Gyroscopes are devices that help Applied Science, developed a new of Egypt, following nationalization of the Suez Canal by President Jamal Abdun- vehicles, drones, and wearable optical gyroscope that is 500 times Nasser. The usurper state of Israel intended to occupy the Gulf of Aqaba at the rear end of Red Sea for movement of its ships. Two days later, Britain and France, in support and handheld electronic devices smaller than the current state-of- of the illegal Zionist entity, stationed their paratroops around Suez Canal. The goal know their orientation in three- the-art device, yet they can detect behind this trilateral attack was to force Egypt into relinquishing the nationalization dimensional space. They are phase shifts that are 30 times of this canal, which links the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea, and was controlled by France and Britain till then. After a few months occupation, the invaders withdrew from commonplace in just about every smaller than those systems. The Egyptian soil in March 1957 under pressure from world public opinion and many world bit of technology we rely on every new device is described in a paper governments.
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