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This Day In History
Starring - Taj Mahal

It has been said that the Taj Mahal is within more [--1--] distance of perfection than any other work of man. Designed by a council of architects from India, Persia, Central Asia and beyond, its construction was ordered by mogul emporer Shah Jahan as a [--2--] for his beloved wife, Arjuman Banu Begum. Master builders, masons, inlayers and [--3--] were gathered along with precious materials throughout India, as more than 20,000 workmen [--4--] daily for 22 years to complete it. Today in the town of Agra, artists use the same tools and [--5--] methods of workmanship originally employed in the seventeenth century to adorn the Taj Mahal. Clearly, one of the finest architectural jewels the world has ever seen.
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