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UndertheOcean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 01:41 PM Original message |
Hey , Arabs gave the world Algebra. |
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Jackpine Radical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 01:42 PM Response to Original message |
1. That's another thing I'll never forgive them for. |
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a la izquierda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 02:27 PM Response to Reply #1 |
21. Haha... |
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tabatha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 01:43 PM Response to Original message |
2. Yeah, that is why the dummies don't like Arabs. |
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billyoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 01:43 PM Response to Original message |
3. I don't apologize for Palin and her Phalangists, I don't expect the Arabs to apologize for bin Laden |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 02:13 PM Response to Reply #3 |
14. Palin should apologize for her |
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Sheets of Easter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 01:46 PM Response to Original message |
4. Also- coffee, numerals, distilled alcohol (ironically)... |
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JohnnyBoots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 02:05 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. Phonecian alphabet as well. |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 02:34 PM Response to Reply #9 |
24. Why is the Hebrew alphabet older than the Arabic alphabet? |
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The Stranger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 04:38 PM Response to Reply #24 |
34. The Phoenicians were a different people altogether. |
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PDJane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 01:47 PM Response to Original message |
5. And the first codified laws......... |
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NOLALady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 01:52 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Were they the first with the virgin birth myth? |
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spin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 02:37 PM Response to Reply #8 |
25. Joseph Campbell was an expert on the development of.... |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 06:33 PM Response to Reply #5 |
36. You're confusing current occupants of the land with the older occupants. |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 01:51 PM Response to Original message |
6. Al Queda and Al Gebra ... terror! terror! terror! |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 01:52 PM Response to Original message |
7. "The only thing Arabs have to apologize for is" Saudi Arabia and Wahabi-ism. n/t |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 02:07 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Well, whose idea was "Saudi Arabia"? |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 02:10 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. The British |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 02:18 PM Response to Reply #12 |
17. 1927. The UK was formed the same year. Lots of bad ideas that year. n/t |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 02:19 PM Response to Reply #12 |
18. I think all the British did was draw the borders. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 02:25 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. That... |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 02:31 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. There ya go! |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 02:11 PM Response to Reply #7 |
13. Absolutely. |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 02:10 PM Response to Original message |
11. And Algers.and Algeria. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 02:16 PM Response to Original message |
15. I'll never forgive them for that. |
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Captiosus (711 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 02:17 PM Response to Original message |
16. And without Algebra... |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 02:22 PM Response to Original message |
19. Anyone Bashing all Arabs is a Bigot |
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StClone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
22. America gave us Rush Limbaugh |
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fla nocount (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 02:39 PM Response to Original message |
26. Surveying language... azimuth, horizon, apex, etc as well the... |
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karynnj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 02:42 PM Response to Original message |
27. Can we tell Palin that no algebra, means no trig? |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 03:02 PM Response to Original message |
28. And sexagesimal time and direction measurement |
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Jacobin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 03:13 PM Response to Original message |
29. The founding fathers gave us separation of church and state |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 04:08 PM Response to Original message |
30. I thought it was the Persians. |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 04:17 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. Yes it was. Omar Khayyam was Persian. |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 06:52 PM Response to Reply #32 |
38. Thanks for the links of the movie on Omar. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 04:50 PM Response to Reply #30 |
35. Various Islamic mathematicians throughout the middle east. |
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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 04:11 PM Response to Original message |
31. Hell, they gave us NUMBERS! |
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meow2u3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 04:33 PM Response to Original message |
33. If it weren't for Arabs giving us algebra |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-15-08 06:47 PM Response to Original message |
37. "without Arabs it would have been lost while Europe was enjoying the Dark Ages" |
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