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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An ancient city of Persia northeast of modern Shiraz in southwest Iran. It was the ceremonial capital of Darius I and his successors. Its ruins include the palaces of Darius and Xerxes and a citadel that contained the treasury looted by Alexander the Great.
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- proper noun an ancient city of
Persia .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an ancient city that was the capital of the ancient Persian Empire; now in ruins
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Examples
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"Persepolis" is the poignant story of a young girl coming-of-age in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.
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Well it looks like Persepolis is now headed for the big screen, it will be nice to see an animated film that will make people think:
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Persepolis is not so much a graphic novel as it is a graphic memoir.
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The name in the cuneiform inscriptions at Persepolis is written Daryawus, from the root Darh, "to preserve," the Conservator
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The art (done by Chari Pere) is stellar - it reminds me a bit of Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis" - and the story is really riveting.
J. Weekly 2009
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Originally written in French, Persepolis traces the first few decades of Satrapi’s life, from being a child during the Iranian Revolution to leaving for Europe, coming back, and then leaving again.
Buzzine » Iran 2008
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I recently read Persepolis, which is a fabulous graphic novel about a girl growing up in Iran.
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Hopefully it will receive one of the five nominations for the Animated Feature Oscar -- it can have the occasional foreign slot previously filled by titles like "The Triplets of Belleville" and "Persepolis" -- so there will be more interest for expanded distribution.
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You also really can't only lean towards the obvious "literary" titles Persepolis, Eisner, American Splendor.
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it: | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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A woman I worked with lent me a really interesting graphic novel 2 volumes, called Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi.
global awareness (or something) asakiyume 2006
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