Dar ul-Funun (Persia) Dar ul-Funun (Persia) Dar ul-Funun ( , meaning "Polytechnic"), established in 1851, was the first modern university and modern institution of higher learning in Iran (Persia). Founded by Amir Kabir, then the royal vizier to Nasereddin Shah, the Shah of Persia, Dar al-Funun originally was conceived as a polytechnic to train upper-class Persian youth in medicine, engineering, military science, and geology. It was similar in scope and purpose to American land grant colleges like Purdue and Texas A&M. Like them, it developed and expanded its mission over the next hundred years, eventually becoming the University of Tehran. The institute was
Previously Unaired Christmas insensitive by being wildly insensitive, but Glee's started to do that on an almost weekly basis now." Previously Unaired Christmas "Previously Unaired Christmas" is the eighth episode and fall finale of the fifth season of the American musical television series "Glee", and the ninety-sixth episode overall. It was directed by Wendey Stanzler and written by Ross Maxwell, and it aired on Fox in the United States on December 5, 2013. The episode is the show's fourth Christmas special, but due to season five being set in the same calendar year as season four, it is a non-canonical episode which purports