The Simurgh appears in Iranian literary classics such as Farid ud-Din Attar's Conference of the Birds as instructor and birds leader, and in Ferdowsi's epic Shahnameh ( The Book of Kings ), in which also the Huma bird appears as the presumed " bird of paradise ".

" Manteq at-Ṭayr " (" The Conference of the Birds ")

Several musical artists have albums or songs which share the name of his most famous work, Conference of the Birds, as well as the themes of enlightenment contained therein.

Notably, jazz bassist David Holland's album, which was written as a metaphor for his own enlightenment, and Om's Conference of the Birds, which deals with extremely esoteric themes often connected with metaphors of flight, inward vision, destruction of self, and oneness with the cosmos

* 1979: La Conférence des oiseaux ( The Conference of the Birds ) after Farid al-Din Attar, Festival d ' Avignon, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord

* Heilpern, John, Conference of the Birds: The Story of Peter Brook in Africa, Faber, 1977, ISBN 0-571-10372-3

** Farid al-Din Attar-Mantiqu't-Tayr ( The Conference of the Birds )

A modern-day representation of The Conference of the Birds by Iranian painter Bahram Alivandi.

In the 12th century Conference of the Birds, Iranian Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar wrote of a band of pilgrim birds in search of the Simurgh.

* The Conference of the Birds ( book )

The core trio plus saxophonist Sam Rivers recorded Holland's Conference of the Birds ( ECM ).

: Streams, recorded live at Montreux, Hues ( both records contain different trio performances later collated on CD as Trio Live ), the quartet album Sizzle and his first big-band disc, Crystals ; perhaps his best-known work from this period though is his appearance at 49 years old on Dave Holland's Conference of the Birds, in the company of Anthony Braxton and Barry Altschul.

* Conference of the Birds, ( ECM, 1973 )

1972 saw the recording of Conference of the Birds, with Rivers, Altschul and Braxton – Holland's first recording as a leader, and the beginning of a long musical relationship with Rivers.

The Conference of the Birds (, Mantiqu't-Tayr, 1177 ) is a book of poems in Persian by Farid ud-Din Attar of approximately 4500 lines.

Peter Brook and Jean-Claude Carrière adapted the poem into a play titled La Conférence des oiseaux ( The Conference of the Birds ), which they published in 1979.

* Attar, Harvey & Masani, Conference of the Birds: A Seeker's Journey to God, Weiser Books, 2001, ISBN 1-57863-246-3

* The Conference of the Birds, available from the Packard Humanities Institute

* Abridged Edward FitzGerald translation of Attar's Conference of the Birds

* Conference of the Birds an opera by Johan Othman and libretto by William Radice

A long footnote at the end of the review summarises The Conference of the Birds ( 1177 ), by Farid ud-Din Attar, in which a group of birds seek a feather dropped in the middle of China by Simurg, the bird king.

The clearer conclusion of The Conference of the Birds explains the ambiguous ending of " The Approach to Al-Mu ' tasim.

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They released the albums Variations on a Theme in 2005, Conference of the Birds in 2006, and Pilgrimage in 2007.

* Selection from the Conference of Birds ( Mantiq-al-Tayr ) by Attar: 1994

The Inside Story of the Peace Conference, ( 1920 ) online review

There were also a number of conferences touching upon these subjects, such as the Workshop on Interactive Fiction & Synthetic Realities in 1990 ; Interactive Story Systems: Plot & Character at Stanford in 1995 ; the AAAI Workshop on AI and Entertainment, 1996 ; Lifelike Computer Characters, Snowbird, Utah, October 1996 ; the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents at Marina del Rey, CA.

Nintendo first revealed The Thousand-Year Door at the Game Developers Conference of 2003 ; before release, the game was known tentatively as Mario Story 2 in Japan and Paper Mario 2 in North America, and was revealed to be a direct sequel to the N64 game Paper Mario.

What Really Happened at Paris: The Story of the Peace Conference, 1918-1919.

In 2012, Mike McKenna was selected as a finalist yet again for the Sports Story of the Year category at the National Journalism Education Association Conference.

A sequel to Partners in Time was announced at the Nintendo Conference on October 2, 2008, under the name Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story.

* Story vs. Game: The Battle of Interactive Fiction, a lecture Sharp gave at the 1989 Computer Game Developers Conference describing how King of Chicagos interactive story engine was implemented.

Heilpern is perhaps best known for his classic book, Conference of the Birds – The Story of Peter Brook in Africa.

King Peter II, American President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill joined Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in officially recognising Tito and the Partisans at the Tehran Conference.

Archbishops Peter Akinola of Nigeria and Henry Orombi of Uganda would not condemn violence against gays and lesbians when questioned on the issue at the Global Anglican Future Conference.

In Peter Collinson, editor, Proceedings of the EUUG Spring 88 Conference, pages 237 – 245, Buntingford, UK, 1988.

The term VRML was coined by Dave Raggett in a paper called “ Extending WWW to support Platform Independent Virtual Reality ” submitted to the First World Wide Web Conference in 1994, and first discussed at the WWW94 VRML BOF established by Tim Berners-Lee, where Mark Pesce presented the Labyrinth demo he developed with Tony Parisi and Peter Kennard.

In addition, Dave Skrien became the first Lions head coach to receive the Annis Stukus Trophy as Coach of the Year, and fullback / kicker Peter Kempf also became the second Lion to win the Dr. Beattie Martin Trophy for Rookie of the Year honours in the Western Conference.

In December 2011, Ministry of the Environment ( Canada ) Peter Kent announced Canada's withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol one day after negotiators from nearly 200 countries meeting in Durban, South Africa at the 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference ( November 28-December 11 ), completed a marathon of climate talks to establish a new treaty to limit carbon emissions.

* L Peter Deutsch, A LISP Machine with Very Compact Programs ( Third Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1973 ).

Around 1845 Peter Eyman and another minister, George Patton, advocated " variant practices " for which they were disfellowshipped by the Annual Conference in 1848.

Peter MacKay attending the 45th Munich Security Conference

In October 2011, Ramachandran delivered a lecture titled " The Neurology of Human Nature " at the 47th Nobel Conference at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota.

Still resigned again shortly after Barnet's return to the Conference and was replaced by Peter Shreeves.

Peter Salmon at the Nations & Regions Media Conference in 2012

The club then appointed former England international Peter Taylor as manager, but he was unable to steer the team away from the foot of the table, and Dover held onto their place in the Conference only because Northern Premier League runners-up Boston United failed to submit their application for promotion before the required deadline.

While attending the Quebec Conference of 1864, Peter Mitchell was a strong supporter of Canadian confederation.

Several members of the Society have been criticized by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith or US Bishops ' Conference Committee on Doctrine, including Roger Haight, Richard McBrien, Elizabeth Johnson, Peter Phan, Margaret Farley.

Among the notable alumni from the university of Mainz are German politicians Rainer Brüderle ( FDP, Federal Minister for Economics and Technology ), Horst Teltschik ( former Securitiy Advisor of Chancler Helmut Kohl and president of the Munich Conference on Security Policy, Christina Schroeder, Federal Minister of Family and Social Affairs and Franz Josef Jung ( CDU, Former Federal Minister of Labor and Social Affairs and former Federal Minister of Defence ), as well as sports journalist Béla Réthy, political journalist Peter Scholl-Latour, Dieter Stolte, the former General Intendant of ZDF, the biggest television in Europe, and soprano Elisabeth Scholl.

The Long / Lovecraft friendship was fictionalized in Peter Cannon's 1985 novel Pulptime: Being a Singular Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, Lovecraft, and the Kalem Club as if Narrated by Frank Belknap Long, Jr .. Long was a Guest of Honour at the Lovecraft Centennial Conference in Providence in 1990.

Founded in 1966 as the joint National Conference of Catholic Bishops ( NCCB ) and United States Catholic Conference, it is composed of all active and retired members of the Catholic hierarchy ( i. e., diocesan, coadjutor, and auxiliary bishops and the ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter ) in the United States and the Territory of the U. S. Virgin Islands.

Peter House, one of the Cornell Conference veterans, established environmetrics early in the 1960s.

The addition of local players Roderick Wellington, Deng Deng ( brother of Luol Deng ), Canadian Peter Knechtel and Welsh international Nathan Hayes, bolstered an impressive roster and with eight straight victories to open the season, the Raiders were on course to claim the newly-rebranded NBL Conference title.

Recent Fellows at the Conference have included Christopher Castellani, Geri Doran, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Ilya Kaminsky, Suji Kwock Kim, Naeem Murr, Peter Orner, Eric Puchner, Richard Siken, Monique Truong, Vendela Vida, and C. Dale Young.

* Peter Ramus Conference 2008