Bokhara
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Favorite gathering place for D block's intellectuals was a cozy yellow-and-primrose-painted cell with a 100-book library, a Bokhara rug and a medieval print of St. Paul.
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The episode, said the newspaper, reminded one of "the lover who promised the whole of Samarkand and Bokhara for a mole on the cheek of his beloved."
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Chambers testified that he gave Hiss and three other agents Bokhara rugs in January 1937 as gestures of appreciation for their undercover work.
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Patterned after Bokhara, Indian and Persian rugs--and decorated with fringe--MouseRugs are made of nylon fibers that feel cozy and help keep dirt from gunking up the mouse ball.
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It is truly a marvel not only that Baghdad, Edessa, and Nisibis possessed Nestorian schools of divinity and philosophy, but that Christian colleges, seminaries, and theological schools flourished in Samarcand, Bokhara, and Khiva!
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
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