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Posted June 3rd, 2008 by heritage
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Date: 
Saturday, 1977, January 1
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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture was created in 1977

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H.H. Prince Karim Aga Khan IV
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THE AGA KHAN: FROM CURZON TO HITLER :A MAN ALWAYS AT THE CENTRE OF HISTORY-1977-11-05

Posted December 23rd, 2009 by librarian-ap
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Source: 
The Times

My father, the late Aga Khan, was born 100 years ago on 2nd November. Though he died in 1957 at the turn of what Winston Churchill aptly termed "this tormented half century", few today can separate reality from myth when looking back on his long and active life.

To many in the West, he remains the religious leader who was weighed against precious stones, the race horse owner who won five Derbies or the man whose eldest son, Aly Khan, once married Rita Hayworth.

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