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Welcome. I am new here, and just about everyday I am learning something new. As long as this place is an educational resource then I will always come back!

Thanks, Wikipedia!

[edit] Contributions I've Made

• Amazing Vacation Homes-Homes are neat
• Didiayer Snyder-A very amazing person!!!
• Notable Iranians

[edit] Notable Iranians

• Abbas Kiarostami -former president of the Cannes Film Festival
• Abdol-Hossein Sardari -charge d'affaires in Paris who issued hundreds of visas to non-Iranian Jews to save them from the Nazis
• Abu-Rayhan Biruni -great contributer to the fields of mathematics, philosophy, medicine, and science
• Ali Daei -first male soccer player to score 100 goals in international play
• Andre Agassi -former World #1 professional tennis player
• Anoushe Ansari -world's first female space tourist
• Camila Batmanghelidjh -founder of Kid's Company, winner of UK's Woman of the Year 2006 award
• Christiane Amanpour -chief international correspondent for CNN
• Farabi -second only to Aristotle in knowledge
• Farshid Moussavi -world leader in architectural engineering
• Fariborz Sahba -designer of the Lotus Temple, the most visited building in the world
• Farzad Nazem -chief technical officer and executive vice president of Yahoo!
• Firouz Naderi -associate director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
• Freddie Mercury -lead singer of Queen
• Hossein Amanat -architect of the Azadi Tower
• Lily Afshar -one of the world's best female classical guitarists
• Nazanin Afshin-Jam -Miss World Canada 2003
• Omar Khayyam -poet, mathematician, philospher, astronomer; triangle=b(squared)-4ac
• Omar Djalili -the only Iranian comedian in the world, which is technically 3 more than Germany
• Omid Kordestani -senior VP of worldwide sales and field operations for Google
• Parisa Khosravi -senior VP and managing editor, international news gathering, of CNN
• Pierre Omidyar -founder and chairman of Ebay
• Ramona Amiri -Miss World Canada 2005
• Razi -chemist, physicist, and philospher; discoverer of the medicinal aspects of alcohol
• Rumi -poet
• Saadi -poet; one on the hall of the UN
• Shahrdad Rohani -conductor
• Shirin Ebadi -2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner
• Shohreh Aghdashloo -2003 Academy Award nominee