... chess board you can make friends in the train with people without speaking their language. The name chess comes from the Persian Shah. King. and the word checkmate which ends the game, from Shah mat, meaning The King is dead. Some think it was meant for ...

... whole land of Iran has been vested in the monarch as his property. To fall short of despotism has been the worst fault of a Persian Shah, for it has invariably meant that for the rule of one tyrant has been substituted the rule of many. The private lives of ...

... bourdiouts, or sheepskins. of petroleum a month in the first years of last century. By taxing th e sales of this oil the Persian Shah found himself a rich man. It is a technique subsequent Shahs have perfected. ONE day in 1805 Prince Tsitsianor, with a ...