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  2. List of Arabic star names - Wikipedia

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    Ptolemy used a strategy of "figure reference" to identify stars according to their position within a familiar constellation or asterism (e.g., "in the right shoulder of The Hunter"). Muslim astronomers adopted some of these as proper names for stars, and added names from traditional Arabic star lore, which they recorded in various Zij treatises.

  3. List of Arab astronauts - Wikipedia

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    In 1985, the Arab Organization of Space Communications nominated Sultan bin Salman Al Saud.Originally a civilian pilot holding a commercial pilots licence, [9] Al Saud, a member of the House of Saud, was born in Riyadh, to King Salman of Saudi Arabia, and holds a bachelor's degree of Arts in Media from the University of Denver, Colorado.

  4. Arabs - Wikipedia

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    Hagarenes is a term widely used by early Syriac, Greek, and Armenian to describe the early Arab conquerors of Mesopotamia, Syria and Egypt, refers to the descendants of Hagar, who bore a son named Ishmael to Abraham in the Old Testament. In the Bible, the Hagarenes referred to as "Ishmaelites" or "Arabs."

  5. Astronomy in the medieval Islamic world - Wikipedia

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    A significant number of stars in the sky, such as Aldebaran, Altair and Deneb, and astronomical terms such as alidade, azimuth, and nadir, are still referred to by their Arabic names. A large corpus of literature from Islamic astronomy remains today, numbering approximately 10,000 manuscripts scattered throughout the world, many of which have ...

  6. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets - Wikipedia

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    Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets was released on 20 July 2017 in Germany by Buena Vista International and Universum Film, in the United States on 21 July by STXfilms, in France on 26 July by EuropaCorp Distribution, in China on 25 August by China Film Group, in Belgium on 26 August by Belga Films, and 27 November in United Arab ...

  7. Sinbad the Sailor - Wikipedia

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    Sinbad the Sailor (/ ˈ s ɪ n b æ d /; Arabic: سندباد البحري, romanized: Sindibādu l-Bahriyy or Sindbad) is a fictional mariner and the hero of a story-cycle.He is described as hailing from Baghdad during the early Abbasid Caliphate (8th and 9th centuries A.D.).

  8. Al-Khwarizmi - Wikipedia

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    Al-Khwarizmi. Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi[note 1] (Persian: محمد بن موسى خوارزمی; c. 780 – c. 850), or simply al-Khwarizmi, was a Khwarazm -born polymath who produced vastly influential Arabic-language works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography. Around 820 CE, he was appointed as the astronomer and head of the House of ...

  9. Fairuz - Wikipedia

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    Fairuz. Nouhad Wadie Haddad (Arabic: نهاد وديع حداد, romanized: Nuhād Wadīʿ Ḥaddād, Lebanese Arabic pronunciation: [nʊˈhaːd waˈdiːʕ ħadˈdaːd]; born November 21, 1934 [1][2][3][4]), known as Fairuz (Arabic: فيروز, romanized: Fayrūz, pronounced [fajˈruːz]), [a] is a Lebanese singer. She is widely considered an ...