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The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.
Ferdowsi

Born: 940
Died: 1020 (aged 80)
Bio: Abu ʾl-Qasim Ferdowsi Tusi, or Ferdowsi, was a Persian poet and the author of Shahnameh, which is the world's longest epic poem created by a single poet, and the national epic of Iran and the Greater Iran.
Known for:
- The epic of kings
- The legend of Seyavash
- Das Königsbuch
- Şerîfî Şehnâme çevirisi