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Cheese Arabic cheese known as kishek is one of the oldest cheeses known to mankind. It helped keep the ancestors of today’s Arabs alive and healthy.
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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.