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    • Jan van Goyen
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    • THE MEDIEVAL DRAMA (3)
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    • HISTORYof KABUKI
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    • Mahmoud Farshchian
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    • M.C.
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    • Roudaki Samarqandi
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    • Iranian Miniature History
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    • Abol-Hasan Saba
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    • Seyed Abdol-Hossain Dastgheib
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    • Ahmad Keshvari
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    • The Merchant of Venice
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    • I Am David
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    • Edouard Leon Cortès
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    • Mirza Kouchak Khan Jangaly
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    • THE MEDIEVAL DRAMA (2)
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    • Pascal-Adolphe-Jean
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    • Thomas Cole
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    • HISTORY OF THEATER
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    • Canaletto
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    • Vittore
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    • Caravaggio
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    • New Elton John’s Album
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    • Art
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    • ALEXANDER
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    • PAYCHECK
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    • Shark Tale
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    • Albert
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    • The Day after Tomorrow
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    • JEAN MICHEL JARRE
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    • Giovanni Bellini
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    • 'Ladder 49' Burns with Heated Action
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    • Collateral
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    • Timothy Tyler
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    • Dante Alighieri
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    • Bonanza
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    • 'Hero' a powerful display of visual poetry
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    • HELLBOY
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    • William Sydney Porter (O. Henry)
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    • Electronic Music History
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    • Photorealism Of Famous Painters
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    • Mohammad Ali Rajai
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