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Shami and Levantine Dialect

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Poor thing

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Mathematics

posted on: Nov 19, 2014

Umar Al-Khayyam (d. 1130) mathematician and poet of the ‘Rubaiyat,” advanced algebra extensively and developed a calendar more accurate than the Gregorian.

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