toobaa: Our use of the phrase ‘The Dark Ages’ to cover the period from 699 to 1000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe… From India to Spain, the brilliant civilisation of Islam flourished. What was lost to Christendom at this time was not lost to civilisation, but quite the contrary… —- Bertrand Russel, History of [...]
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Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox