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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>
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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.

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