Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 21:24:34 -0400 From: "T.M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Islam (was: Religions (was Re: helping victims of terror)) Message-ID: <3BD4C6D2.A012EC43@mail.ptd.net> References: <1003617187.3bd1fba3d31ff@webmail.neomedia.it> <20011021101345.A28033@wantadilla.lemis.com> <1003661097.3bd2a72959115@webmail.neomedia.it> <20011022094739.F99042@wantadilla.lemis.com> <1003795076.3bd4b2841fae7@webmail.neomedia.it>
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Salvo Bartolotta wrote: > > Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > > Yes, you should have done. The library in Alexandria was burnt down > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > I had, I have, and I always will. RTFM^WUnix is a way of life. :-) > > > > in 412, hundreds of years before the birth of Mohammed, by Christian > > monks in the name of Christianity. > > http://members.iinet.net.au/~nicke/library/library.htm . > > This link is not available now. I'll try again later. > > AFAIR, my history textbooks attributed the destruction of the library to the > Muslims; and my high school teachers gave me this version. Let's go on. Alexandria was sacked many times. This page: http://www.bede.org.uk/library.htm purports to look at the sources, and concludes that the library's books were burned by Caesar's troops. I can't vouch for it, but it sounds credible. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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