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Featured Article: Fuzuli (poet)
Muhammad bin Suleyman (also spelled in various sources as Muhammad bin Suleiman, Mehmed bin Suleyman, and Mohammad bin Solayman) Azerbaijani: Məhəmməd Süleyman oğlu, مَحمد سلیمان اوغلی (1483–1556), better known by his pen name Fuzuli (Füzuli, فضولی), was a sixteenth-century poet who composed works in his native Azerbaijani, as well as Persian and Arabic. He is regarded as one of the greatest poets of Turkic literature and a prominent figure in both Azerbaijani and Ottoman literature. Fuzuli's work was widely known and admired throughout the Turkic cultural landscape from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, with his fame reaching as far as Central Asia and India.
Popular Article: Golf
Golf is a sport in which individual players or teams of players strike a ball into a hole using several types of clubs. It is one of the few ball games that does not use a fixed, standardized playing field or area. Although similar games can be traced back to the Chinese and Dutch, modern golf is considered to be a Scottish invention. The Rules of Golf are internationally standardized and are jointly overseen by the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews (R&A) and the United States Golf Association (USGA). The underlying principle governing play is fairness.
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