Scheherazade

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Scheherazade in the Arabian Nights, the daughter of the vizier of King Shahriyar, who married the king and escaped the death that was the usual fate of his wives by telling him the tales which compose that work, interrupting each one at an interesting point, and postponing the continuation till the next night.

Scheherazade

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Scheherazade. See Sheherazade.