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Bloggers passed on their latest favorites like a prophet in the town square, coming in from the online wilderness of music piracy’s heyday with new tracks that could change your life.

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"This station recalls the divine woman who awakened the world through her purity and by nurturing a great prophet," said Tehran Mayor Alireza Zakani on X.

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It is based on the teachings of Bahaullah, who was born in Iran in 1817 and is considered the prophet and founder of their monotheistic faith.

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What Peck found wasn’t a prophet or a symbol but a man full of contradictions: a writer wrestling with class, illness and empire, trying to fuse politics and art before his own time ran out.

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Many also believe that this is the place where, according to the Bible and the Quran, God spoke to the prophet from the burning bush.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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