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  2. House of Wisdom - Wikipedia

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    The House of Wisdom existed as a part of the major Translation Movement taking place during the Abbasid Era, translating works from Greek and Syriac to Arabic, but it is unlikely that the House of Wisdom existed as the sole center of such work, as major translation efforts arose in Cairo and Damascus even earlier than the proposed establishment of the House of Wisdom. [9]

  3. Graeco-Arabic translation movement - Wikipedia

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    The "House of Wisdom" (Bayt al-Hikmah) was a major intellectual center during the reign of the Abbasids and was a major component of the Translation Movement and the Islamic Golden Age. The library was filled with many different authors and translated books from the Greek, Persian, and Indian civilizations.

  4. Ezra Stiles - Wikipedia

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    Ezra Stiles (10 December [O.S. 29 November] 1727 – May 12, 1795) [1] [2] was an American educator, academic, Congregationalist minister, theologian, and author. He is noted as the seventh president of Yale College (1778–1795) and one of the founders of Brown University.

  5. American Enlightenment - Wikipedia

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    Dray, Philip Stealing God's Thunder: Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America (2005) Random House, ISBN 1-4000-6032-X; Ellis, Joseph. "Habits of Mind and an American Enlightenment," American Quarterly Vol. 28, No. 2, Special Issue: An American Enlightenment (Summer, 1976), pp. 150–14 in JSTOR; Ferguson, Robert A.

  6. Book burning - Wikipedia

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    Examples include the burning of books and burying of scholars under China's Qin dynasty (213–210 BCE), the destruction of the House of Wisdom during the Mongol siege of Baghdad (1258), the destruction of Aztec codices by Itzcoatl (1430s), the burning of Maya codices on the order of bishop Diego de Landa (1562), [2] and the burning of Jaffna ...

  7. Al-Khwarizmi - Wikipedia

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    For example, x 2 = 40x − 4x 2 is reduced to 5x 2 = 40x. Al-muqābala is the process of bringing quantities of the same type to the same side of the equation. For example, x 2 + 14 = x + 5 is reduced to x 2 + 9 = x. The above discussion uses modern mathematical notation for the types of problems that the book discusses.

  8. McKamey Manor: The History and Controversy Behind America's ...

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    A new documentary about the haunted house is out now. ... McKamey Manor: The History and Controversy Behind America's Most Extreme Haunted House. Maggie Horton. October 12, 2023 at 11:36 AM.

  9. Illuminationism - Wikipedia

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    Ilkhanate-Mongols besieging Baghdad under the command of Hulagu Khan, c. 1430.. While the Ilkhanate-Mongol Siege of Baghdad and the destruction of the House of Wisdom (Arabic: بيت الحكمة, romanized: Bayt al-Ḥikmah) effectively ended the Islamic Golden Age in 1258, it also paved the way for novel philosophical invention. [1]