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  2. Radha - Wikipedia

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    14th-century fresco of Radha (right) and Krishna (left, playing flute) in Udaipur, Rajasthan. The Sanskrit term Rādhā (Sanskrit: राधा) means "prosperity, success, perfection and wealth". [ 32 ][ 33 ][ 34 ] It is a common word and name found in various contexts in the ancient and medieval texts of India. The word appears in the Vedic ...

  3. Love Story (Taylor Swift song) - Wikipedia

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    Love Story (Taylor Swift song) " Love Story " is a song by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was released as the lead single from her second studio album, Fearless, on September 15, 2008, by Big Machine Records. Inspired by a boy who was unpopular with her family and friends, Swift wrote the song using William Shakespeare 's ...

  4. A Tale of Two Cities - Wikipedia

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    A Tale of Two Cities at Wikisource. A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel published in 1859 by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter ...

  5. List of writing genres - Wikipedia

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    List of writing genres. Writing genres (more commonly known as literary genres) are categories that distinguish literature (including works of prose, poetry, drama, hybrid forms, etc.) based on some set of stylistic criteria. Sharing literary conventions, they typically consist of similarities in theme/topic, style, tropes, and storytelling ...

  6. Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl - Wikipedia

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    Náhua legends. In Aztec mythology, Iztaccíhuatl was a princess who fell in love with one of her father's warriors, Popocatépetl. The emperor sent Popocatépetl to war in Oaxaca, promising him Iztaccíhuatl as his wife when he returned (which Iztaccíhuatl's father presumed he would not). Iztaccíhuatl was falsely told that Popocatépetl had ...

  7. List of city and town nicknames in India - Wikipedia

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    This partial list of city nicknames in India compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities in India are known by (or have been known by) historically, officially, or unofficially, to locals, outsiders, or their tourism chambers of commerce.

  8. Pyramus and Thisbe - Wikipedia

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    Ovid's is the oldest surviving version of the story, published in 8 AD, but he adapted an existing aetiological myth.While in Ovid's telling Pyramus and Thisbe lived in Babylon, and Ctesias had placed the tomb of his imagined king Ninus near that city, the myth probably originated in Cilicia (part of Ninus' Babylonian empire) as Pyramos is the historical Greek name of the local Ceyhan River.

  9. The Gift of the Magi - Wikipedia

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    The story was allegedly written at Pete's Tavern [2] on Irving Place in New York City. The story was initially published in The New York Sunday World under the title "Gifts of the Magi" on December 10, 1905. It was first published in book form in the O. Henry collection The Four Million in April 1906.