Omar Khayyam (International) assertion Omar Khayyam i(A61644 works by)
Born: Established: 18 Apr 1048 ; Died: Ceased: 4 Dec 1131
Gender: Male
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Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet. His effect on European writing largely rests on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khyyam (first translated under this title by Edward FitzGerald in 1859), which was enormously influential on the Orientalism of the nineteenth century,

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To-day Be Sweet Edmund Barclay , 1933 single work radio play
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