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Go here, tick the answer best describing your characteristics and voila, get your symbol ^_^

Mine turned out to be a Red Rose ^^;;

footnote:
Quizilla is ridiculously blocked in Iran >_< .

An interesting invention from the food loving country of Iran!! Just attach this vacuumed metallic device to your car exhaust and have your burger cooked.

Arash was a mythological and legendary Persian archer who put his soul into his arrow to save his country.

The legend is that at the time of King Manuchehr the Righteous, a bloody war occurred between Iranians and Turanians. Afrasiab of Turan managed to surround the Iranian army hence forcing them to resign. Soon both sides agree to make peace but Turanians offered a strange sort of peace treaty that whatever land falls within the range of a bow-shot shall be returned to the Iranians, and the rest should then fall to the Turanians. Since there was no choice for Manuchehr, he agreed to it.

Arash the Archer was the only person capable of fulfilling this heavy burden. An angle (Amesha Spenta / Ameretat) known as Sepandarmaz (Spandarmaz /Esfandaramad) gave an special bow and arrow to him and there he went. On 13th day of Tir, Arash climbed the Alborz Mountains, stood on its highest peak Damavand, put his soul into his arrow and fired it towards Turan with all his might, then collapsed and died. The arrow traveled from dawn till noon over an unimaginably great distance till finally landed somewhere near Amu Darya (Oxus River) and marked the border between Iran and Turan. That was a joyful moment for the Iranians as they even gained more lands than before ;-) The event which was coincided with the pouring of the rain is ever since celebrated as Jashn-e Tiragan or Tirgan.

Arash the Archer sacrificed his life for his country and became a legend whose name and memory's still alive.
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Upon seeing a pretty cute Hello Kitty cool humidifier on amazon.com, decided to check for more cool looking humidifiers and below you can find some of the many such devices I found ~_^

I like this Korean girl Pucca and all her gestures like the ones you can see in the following emoticons ;)

• The first book published is thought to be the Epic of Gilgamesh, written at about 3000 BC in cuneiform, an alphabet based on symbols.
• The first history book, the Great Universal History, was published by Rashid-Eddin of Persia in 1311
• The word "novel" originally derived from the Latin novus, meaning "new."
• Auguste Rodin died of frostbite in 1917 when the French government refused him financial aid for a flat, yet they kept his statues warmly housed in museums.
  
• The shortest stage play is Samuel Beckett's "Breath" - 35 seconds of screams and heavy breathing.
• Earth is not round; it is slightly pear-shaped. The North Pole radius is 44mm longer than the South Pole radius.
• Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years - but so does winter
• Alfredo di Lelio lovingly invented a dish for his wife in his restaurant in 1914. The dish became famous as Fettuccine Alfredo.
• A Duke is the highest rank you can achieve without being a king or a prince.
• The British royal family changed their surname from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor, the name of their castle, in 1917.

source: Did You Know?

I didn't think this could be an MP3 player till I read its specifications. Girl, I don't know how good its function is but it's looking so cute and hugable that I wish I had one of them with me right now as I can't resist wanting all the cute things (^.^)/♥

These Pupa Milano Puposka dolls are inspired by the Russian Babushka ones which open up to reveal another Babushka and it on its turn opens up again to show another one and such process continues till the very last little Babushka reveals. The only difference here is that these Puposkas are housing some cosmetics such as eye shadows, mascara and lip glosses.

Well, I am not into cosmetics and do not wear makeup at all, but these Puposka dolls are really cute and therefore, wanting =p

• found via Interesting packaging at Design Journal
• Pupa Puposka Makeup Kits

I received this image as a part of a forwarded email so I sadly neither know its photographer nor do I know the place where this photo is taken. But it is so beautiful, do't you think ;)

*sigh* wish people were as beautiful as mother nature too

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On 12 Tir 1367 (3 July 1988), Iran Air flight 655 (IR655) was shot down enroute to Dubai over the Strait of Hormuz, Persian Gulf by the USS-Vincennes simply (as they reasoned) mistaking that Airbus A300B2-203 aircraft (reg# EP-IBU) as a hostile fighter, killing all 290 people onboard. This happened towards the end of Iran-Iraq war and sure these innocent people paid the price of that stupid 8 year war as it was finally ended on 27 Tir 1367 (18 July 1988), just 15 days after the shooting down of IR655.

20 years later on the 15th Environmental Art Festival held at the Persian Gulf and as a remembrance of the above mentioned tragic event, the Iranian environmental artists decided to both pay their tribute to the killed people and seek peace in the Persian Gulf region the artistic way. SO they chose a place on the southern coastline almost next to the spot where IR655 was shot down and crashed,

draw the outline of an aircraft on the sand, placed pebbles and stones on the drawn plane and created the flight number IR 655 next to it as well, poured good amount of the powdered red sands of Hormuz on it and then waited for the high tide.


Soon as the high water occurred, the waves began to wash the cost and therefore vanish the drawn aircraft. So what was the artistic point or rather use of taking all the trouble of creating such huge aircraft on the sands to have it destroyed by the forcing waves? Well, the answer lies in the red sands poured on the the stones. Every time a wave crashed against the coast, not only was it returned to the gulf with the pebbles but also with the powdered red sands as well turning the blue water of Persian Gulf bloody red reminding one of the tragic death of the passengers of the shot down Iran Air aircraft.

At the end, the only thing remained was IR 655 to indicated that its memory lasts forever.

Then the artists put messages about the incident and a poem on peace written in both Persian and English in the bottles which were collected from around the beach and throw them into the Persian Gulf. The chance is somebody somewhere would collect it, read it and think about the peace and a world with out war.