FARS

färs or Farsistanfärsĭstänˈ, province (1991 pop. 3,543,828), c.51,500 sq mi (133,400 sq km), SW Iran. Shiraz is the capital and chief city, located in an oasis occupying a valley c.6 mi (10 km) wide and 20 mi (32 km) long. The province is largely mountainous. Grain, cotton, tobacco, opium, fruit, and wine are produced along the coastal Persian Gulf area. Livestock is raised. Oil and natural gas reserves have stimulated the local economy. Industries include food processing and the manufacture of chemicals, fertilizers, and textiles. The population is mostly organized by tribe; the leading tribes are the Qashqai and the Khamseh. One of the most historic regions of Iran, Fars is more or less identical with the ancient province of Pars, which was the nucleus of the Persian Empire. The ruins of Pasargadae and Persepolis, early Persian capitals, are in Fars. The Arabs changed the name Pars to Fars after they conquered the region in the 7th cent.

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books on: Fars  - 570 results

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Persian Art, Parthian and Sassanian Dynasties, 249 B.C.- A.D. 651
Book by Roman Ghirshman, Stuart Gilbert, James Emmons; Golden Press, 1962
...den Berghe 194. Sassanian Art. Bishapur Fars . Votive Monument with Two Columns, on...Nationale 196. Sassanian Art. Bishapur Fars . Triumph of Shapur I, overall view...Ghirshman 197. Sassanian Art. Bishapur Fars . Triumph of Shapur I detail : Capture...
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Resurrection and Renewal: The Making of the Babi Movement in Iran, 1844-1850
Book by Abbas Amanat; Cornell University Press, 1989
Subjects: Babism--History, Iran--Religion--19th Century, Sh?I?Ah--Iran--History
Events in Fars province offer a case in point. Between...local trade and agricultural production made Fars the countrys second most prosperous province...exceptionally ineffective governor brought Fars to the brink of chaos. 47 Commenting on...
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Iran's Persian Gulf Policy: From Khomeini to Khatami
Book by Christin Marschall; Routledge Curzon, 2003
...Ahmad, Hamgiraiha-i istratijik dar Khalij-i Fars, in Markaz-i Mutalaat-i Khalij-i Fars (ed. ), Majmu a-i maqalat-i duvummin siminar-i barrasi-yi masa il-i Khalij-i Fars , Tehran: Daftar-i Mutalaat-i Siyasi va...
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Regions of Identity: The Construction of America in Women's Fiction, 1885-1914
Book by Kate McCullough; Stanford University Press, 1999
Subjects: American Fiction--19th Century--History And Criticism, American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Fiction--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Group Identity In Literature, Local Color In Literature, National Characteristics, American, In Literature, Race In Literature, Regionalism In Literature, Women And Literature--United States--History
...Ancestry , however, Ling tracks Sui Sin Fars increasing knowledge of and relation to...ultimately "between worlds" and reads Sui Sin Fars personal location as at least partly determining...she produced. She argues that Sui Sin Fars and her sisters use of pseudonyms served...
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The Effect of No-Fault Automobile Insurance on Driver Behavior and Automobile Accidents in the United States
Book by David S. Loughran; Rand, 2001
Subjects: Automobile Drivers--United States, Insurance, No-Fault Automobile--United States, Traffic Accidents--United States
...1975. Among the elements recorded in the FARS data are indicators for whether some traffic...passing, and other negligent actions. FARS also reports on the blood alcohol content...involved in the accident when available. The FARS data are derived from reports produced...
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Empire and the Mind of the Child: Sui Sin Far's "Tales of Chinese Children"
Journal article by Martha J. Cutter; MELUS, Vol. 27, 2002
Subjects: Children, Children of AIDS patients, Children of Holocaust survivors, Children of abused women, Children of alien laborers, Children of disabled parents, Children of drug addicts, Children of entertainers, Children of gay parents, Children of migrant laborers, Children of military personnel, Children of politicians, Children of prisoners, Children of single parents, Children of the mentally ill, Children of women prisoners, Children of working mothers, Children of working parents, Colonization--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Ethnicity--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Immunization of children, Sui Sin Far--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Tales of Chinese Children (Short story)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Vaccination of children
...Empire and the mind of the child: Sui Sin Fars "Tales of Chinese Children" by Martha J. Cutter Sui Sin Fars (Edith Eatons) collection of short stories...on. This essay examines two of Sui Sin Fars childrens stories, however, to illustrate...
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Linguistic Regionalism and the Emergence of Chinese American Literature in Sui Sin Far's "Mrs. Spring Fragrance"
Journal article by Marjorie Pryse; Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Vol. 27, 2010
Subjects: Chinese Americans--Social aspects, Chinese Americans--Works, Mrs. Spring Fragrance (Short fiction collection)--Criticism and interpretation, Regionalism--Social aspects
...Chinese American Literature in Sui Sin Fars "Mrs. Spring Fragrance". by Marjorie...178). Yet the stories from Sui Sin Fars only book, "Mrs. Spring Fragrance...writers, the key to understanding Sui Sin Fars contribution to American literature lies...
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Modeling the Effects of Verbal and Nonverbal Pair Strength on Associative Recognition
Journal article by Jing Xu, Kenneth J. Malmberg; Memory & Cognition, Vol. 35, 2007
Subjects: Accuracy, Cognition & reasoning, Studies
...between hit rates (HRs) and false alarm rates (FARs) increases, and thus, factors can improve AR via qualitatively different patterns of HRs and FARs: HRs can increase and FARs can decrease, HRs can increase and FARs can remain...
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On the Flexibility and the Fallibility of Associative Memory
Journal article by Kenneth J. Malmberg, Jing Xu; Memory & Cognition, Vol. 35, 2007
Subjects: Memory, Random variables, Simulation, Theory
...hit rates (HRs) and false alarm rates (FARs) increase. Over the past dozen or so...presentations has little or no effect on FARs (Cleary et al., 2001; Kelley Wixted...compound cue model predicts an increase in FARs with an increase in target repetitions...
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Sentimentalism and Sui Sin Far
Journal article by Min Hyoung Song; Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Vol. 20, 2003
Subjects: Chin, Frank, Eaton, Edith Maude, Kingston, Maxine Hong, Literature
...2) Given the importance of Sui Sin Fars work to this formative debate in Asian...in what follows by considering Sui Sin Fars stories under the rubric of an American...address this question by turning to Sui Sin Fars stories. On the one hand, following Douglass...
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Research Skills: a Fundamental Asset for Accountants
Magazine article by Jacqueline A. Burke, Robert Katz, Sheila A. Handy, Ralph S. Polimeni; The CPA Journal, Vol. 78, January 2008
Subjects: Accountants, Education, Skill development, United States
...Financial Accounting Research System (FARS) research materials available under the...students completed a practice case using the FARS database, which became the source for...students completed in groups. In addition to FARS, students searched other authoritative...
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Ammo to Go
Magazine article; Popular Science, Vol. 242, February 1993
Subjects: Ammunition, Military weapons, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, R&D, Research & development, Tanks (Military)
...The labs Future Armor Rearm System (FARS) will speed up the ammo reloading process...and their crews are vulnerable. The FARS team is developing an armored, tracked...carousels loaded with ammunition. The FARS vehicle will back up to a tank, and the...
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Let Nacm's Government Receivables Department Help You Put the Big Picture in Perspective
Magazine article by George Reaver; Business Credit, Vol. 102, May 2000
Subjects: Associations, Billings, Credit collections, Federal government, National Association of Credit Management, United States
...The Federal Acquisition Regulations (FARs) (www arnet.gov), in addition to...payment procedures. In conjunction with FARs, the Office of Management and Budget often...procedures to keep them compliant with FARs. However, Uncle Sam employs approximately...
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Highway Hazard
Magazine article by Steve Twedt; Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. The IRE Journal, Vol. 25, March 2002
Subjects: Federal regulation, Hazards, Physical examinations, Truck drivers
...DOTs Fatal Accident Reporting System, or FARS, proved less helpful. Setting up an Access query for FARS was easy enough, sorting out fatal accidents...partial picture of what I wanted to know. Two FARS categories sounded like sure things - fatal...
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Maintaining a Professional Accounting and Auditing Library
Magazine article; The CPA Journal, Vol. 63, December 1993
Subjects: Accounting firms, Data bases, Information retrieval, Libraries, Online, Publications, Recommendations, United States
...FASB offers its Financial Accounting Research System (FARS), FARS requires 11 MB of hard disk storage and includes FASB...index. There are three ways to locate information through FARS--tables of contents, topical index references, and...
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newspaper articles on: Fars  - 89 results

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Western Relief Agency Plane Forced Down by the Iranians; INTERNATIONAL
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), October 8, 2008
...plane was unclear. Irans semi-official Fars news agency said it was American, but...occurred and was checking into the report. Fars reported that the plane was carrying five...allowed to continue to their destination, Fars reported. It said the plane was a Falcon...
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Iran Test-Fires Missiles Ahead of Nuke Talks with West
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), September 29, 2009
Subjects: Iranian foreign relations--Military aspects, MIRV (Missiles)--Military aspects, Multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles--Military aspects
...Revolutionary Guard commander, according to the semi-official Fars News Agency. His comments were reported by the Associated Press...this report. This photograph released by Irans semi-official Fars News Agency purports to show the launch of a Shahab-3 medium...
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History Afflicted
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 26, 2003
...cubic feet a day (did) from the Aghar-Dalan gas field in Fars province. NIOC awarded the $5.8 million EPC contract to Jahanpars...Parsian gas Lamerd site preparation, civil works and refinery (Fars province) equipment installation Project Client Value Planned...
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Ford Gets Rolled on Rollover
Newspaper article by Eric Peters; The Washington Times, December 27, 2000
Subjects: Ford Motor Co., Transportation equipment industry
...by the federal governments Fatal Accident Reporting System (FARS), Explorers, are, in fact, not only safer overall than other comparable SUVs - but safer than most passenger cars as well. * FARS data for the period 1991-1999 (the decade during which SUV...
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Iranian Leader Survives Bomb Attack on His Motorcade
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 4, 2010
Subjects: Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud
...about the explosion, while the English-language news outlet Press TV denied there had been an attack. The semi-official Fars news agency initially reported a man had thrown a home-made grenade, but changed its story to say a firecracker had been set...
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encyclopedia articles on: Fars  - 12 results

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Fars
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FARS fars or Farsistan farsistan , province (1991 pop. 3,543,828), c.51...the Qashqai and the Khamseh. One of the most historic regions of Iran, Fars is more or less identical with the ancient province of Pars, which was the...
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Shiraz
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SHIRAZ sheraz , city (1991 pop. 965,117), capital of Fars prov., SW Iran, at an altitude of c.5,200 ft (1,580...buried in garden-enclosed tombs in Shiraz. A university and the Fars Museum are also in the city. Nearby are the ruins of Persepolis...
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Persia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Achaemenids By the 6th cent. b.c. the early Persians were established in the present-day region of Fars and were benefiting from the decline of Elam . Fars (or Persis to the Greeks) was a recognizable district of the Assyrian Empire (see Assyria...
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Saffarid
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...years later, he had expanded his rule to include Baluchistan, Fars, Kerman, Sind, and in 873, Khorasan . However, Yaqubs forces...recognized by the caliph ruling Baghdad. Amr, the governor of Fars, Isfahan, Khorasan, Sind, and Sistan, was defeated by the...
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Barmakids
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...was given certain ministerial powers, such as tax collecting and control over the army; later, he was appointed governor of Fars and governor of Tabaristan. Yahya, d. 805, son of Khalid, became secretary to the caliphs son, Harun ar-Rashid . Yahya...
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