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Te-faddal (to m)
English:
Please/help yourself
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Navigation and Transportation Among Arab innovations to navigation and transportation were the astrolabe and the compass.
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posted on: Nov 19, 2014
In ancient Baghdad, the scholar known as Caliph Mamoun founded the “Beit al-Hikamah” (House of Wisdom), an academy, library, museum, observatory and translation center in 830 A.D.
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