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1001 Islamic Inventions

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the innovations-come-from-everywhere dept.

pev writes "There's a new traveling exhibition in the UK entitled 1001 inventions. It contains some of the most interesting inventions from the past few thousand years. The common theme, however, is that they all came from the Islamic world and not the west. In some cases [the list is] quite surprising. For the lazy, the Independent newspaper in the UK printed their top 20 from the exhibition."

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  1. Okay, I'll bite by voice_of_all_reason · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Party happy long time boom boom belt" is in the top 20, right?

  2. #'s 1002 and #1003 by jcostantino · · Score: 5, Funny
    Flying carpet

    Magic Lamp

    (rimshot)

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  3. Re:But... by caliph_salahuddin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually Islam didn't start with Mohammed. This is a fairly common misconception. It actually started with Adam & Eve. Mohammed didn't 'found' Islam, he is merely the last Prophet and perfected it.

  4. Re:But... by arvindn · · Score: 5, Funny
    Islam can never be more than 1.5 thousand years old!

    Come on! A thousand years from now, Islam will clearly be more than 1.5 thousand years old ;^)

    [I'm actually surprised no one beat me to it.]

  5. Re:But... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    >> perfected

    Yeah. Perfect.

  6. Re:Obl: Star Trek Russia quote by Eccles · · Score: 4, Funny

    You have not experienced these inventions until you have seen them in the original Klingon.

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    Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.
  7. Re:It's sad . . . by Gryle · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cheney's not so bad. He'll always shoot straight with you. Or straight at you, as the case may be.

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