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Politics : PRESIDENT BUSH - UNFIT FOR COMMAND

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To: longnshort who wrote (313)12/21/2004 7:17:25 PM
From: M0NEYMADE  Read Replies (1) of 660
 
Turn your spell checker on. Second..1100 yrs ago your premise...not true. Where did you get your education Rush Limbaugh LMAO!

By the contrary some important contributions were being made by the rad Muslims.

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1100-1200 Muhammed ibn-Musa al-Khwarizmi, Arab mathematician and astronomer, wrote “hisab al-jabr w’ al muqabalah” (the science of reduction and comparison) in the 9th cent. The work dealt with solving equations. It was the first time that algebra was discussed as a separate branch of mathematics. In the 12th century it was translated into Latin as “Ludus algebrae et almucgrabalaeque.”
(Alg, 1990, p.87)

1100-1200 The Arab geographer Idrisi claimed that Indians preferred iron from East Africa over their own because of its malleability.
(NH, 6/97, p.44)
c1100-1200 Shihab el-Din was an anti-Crusader cleric. He was believed to be buried in Nazareth next to the Basilica of the Annunciation. A cornerstone for a mosque was laid at the site in 1999.
(SFC, 11/24/99, p.A16)
c1100-1200 Judah Halevi was a Jewish poet who lived in Muslim Spain in the 12th century. He wrote “City of the Great King, for thee my soul is longing.”
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