TurnToIslam If you want to know@tti/2nd Edition.

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Al-Fārābī (Islamic Golden Age)

Al-Farabi's contribution to philosophy in the Islamic Golden Age.

 

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Ibn Sīnā (Islamic Golden Age )

the great philosopher and physician Ibn Sīnā@Avicenna.

 

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Al-Bīrūnī (Islamic Golden Age)

the Islamic scholar Al-Biruni.

 

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Al-Ḥākim (Islamic Golden Age)

Al Hakim

 

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Al-Ghazālī (Islamic Golden Age )

Al-Ghazali had a major influence on both Muslim and European philosophers.

 

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Ibn Rushd (Islamic Golden Age)

The philosopher Ibn Rushd.

 

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Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn (Islamic Golden Age)

12th-century hero Saladin.

 

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Al-Rūmī (Islamic Golden Age)

the much loved 13th-century Persian poet Al-Rumi.

 

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Al-Fatihah

May Allah swt grant them BEST grace and BEST generosity.
~May Allah place them with the Rasuls and Prophet Muhammad s.a.w , his family and his companions and among the pious muslims~ Amin!

 

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The founder of Alcoholics Anonymous demanded alcohol during the last few days of his life.

 

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Rather than building up, millionaires in central London, UK are building down, creating mega-basements. Nicknamed “iceberg homes” because there’s more square footage under the ground than above.

 

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MIT students must pass a swim test to graduate. The director of Physical Education said swimming is “…a self-survival skill. Research shows that most drownings occur in families where parents don’t know how to swim.”

The test requires you to swim 100 yards. It used to be 200 yards, the width of the Charles River, but then someone realized if you fell in the river, you’d only have to swim at most half the width.

 

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The Red Hand is the symbol of Ulster (Northern Ireland, UK) because according to myth a boat race was held to determine the king – first to touch the shore wins the crown. One potential king saw he was losing, so cut off his hand (covering it red with blood) and threw it on the shore, thus winning the race.

 

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Yale University is named after Elihu Yale, “the most overrated philanthropist in history,” instead of main philanthropist Jeremiah Dummer, because Dummer College would have been a bad name.

 

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In order to protect people in the future from radioactive waste, two philosophers proposed we genetically engineer cats to change colour when exposed to radiation then create folklore and songs about the cats.

 

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26.5 million Canadians tuned into the gold medal final in men’s hockey during the 2010 Winter Olympics. That’s 80% of the entire country’s population. There was one flight that got delayed cause the passengers didn’t want to board the plane cause the game was still ongoing.

 

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Balloonfest’86 was a publicity stunt in which the United Way of Cleveland released 1.4 million balloons over the city. The balloons tied up highway and air traffic, caused lawsuits seeking millions in damages, and interfered with a Coast Guard search for two boaters who were later found drowned.

 

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The Hippocratic Oath calls for doctors to teach the offspring of their teachers the art of medicine, free of charge.

 

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On January 3, 2005 FOX made a reality show named “Who’s Your Daddy?”.

It starts with an orphan that is introduced to eight men and tries to figure out which one really is her father.

If she’s right, she wins the cash prize.

If she’s wrong, the “dad” who’s conned her takes the money.

 

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Immediately after the Challenger explosion, shares of every corporation involved in the Space Shuttle dropped. But by the end of the day, most had rebounded; only Morton Thiokol remained low.

This was months before the official investigation found Thiokol to be responsible for the disaster.