this article reflects the mythical story of “kaveh and zahak” from ferdowsi’s shahnameh in the “rajol-e siāsi” short story, written by sayyed mohammad jamalzadeh in his “yeki bood-yeki nabood” (“once upon a time”) collection, and discusses the similarities of the two. the foundation of the “kaveh and zahak” tale is the eternal battle between “good and evil” and, as the greatest and the most pal...

The subject of this article is the Anglo-Indian community - a stratum population British India consisting Englishmen born in or permanently residing it. In early 1880s, faced new factor political life rapid development Indian nationalism, and community's reaction to trends was reflected satire period under study particular, Thomas Hart-Davis's pamphlet "India 1983" describes hypothetical societ...

introduction: cytomegalovirus (cytome-galovirus: cmv) infection is a common cause of morbidity and mortality in patients who are the candidate for liver transplant. serological monitoring of individuals rece-iving and giving the liver transplant is necessary for prevention, early diagnosis and treatment strategies and reducing the prevalence of infection. the aim of this study was to assess the...

You may have seen (and ignored) reports in the popular press regarding an article purporting to discuss the relationship between the upcoming American election and strategies in a well-known card game [1], proving that Poe’s law is alive and well. However, this work by Jonathan Falk and Andrew Gelman is a satire of the biases and framings found within certain types of offending research that st...

Written in 1931 and published the following year, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is a dystopian—or anti-utopian—novel. In it, the author questions the values of 1931 London, using satire and irony to portray a futuristic world in which many of the contemporary trends in British and American society have been taken to extremes. Though he was already a best-selling author, Huxley achieved intern...

Latin-vernacular macaronic verse is a distinctive feature of early modern literary culture across Europe. Scholarship has, however, focused upon Italian examples; the production such in England has been particularly little studied, with existing analyses Anglo-Latin based on very small corpus printed poems from seventeenth and eighteenth centuries only. This survey previously unconsidered manus...