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Local stage actors dressed up like Shaj Jehan and wife Mumtaz Mahal pose for photographers as local children looks on along the banks of the Yamuna river near the world's probably most beautiful mausoleum the Taj Mahal in the northern city of Agra, India, on Monday, 27 September 2004 during the opening ceremony of the International year of the Taj Mahal and 350th anniversary of Taj Mahal. Mughal Shaj Jehan, the Muslim Emperor who ruled Northern India between the 16th and 19th centuries, ordered the building of the Taj in 1630 to honour his wife Mumtaz Mahal who died that year in childbirth. (KEYSTONE/EPA/HARISH TYAGI)