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10 Fast Facts About Medieval Castles

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... if your neighbors lived in an enchanted ring or lamp.
Sheherazade, the heroine of The Thousand and One Nights, is sadly neglected in today's records of women of achievement. Although legendary (all legends are based on facts). Sheherazade, a woman of exceptional intelligence, wisdom and bravery saved not only her life by telling a series of spellbinding tales during the dark of Arabian nights, but the lives of a dwindling supply of virgins of ... ... a common religion brought Muslims together spiritually. The pilgrimage (or hajj) to Mecca, a journey that all Muslims are expected to make at least once in their lives, brought these diverse co-religionists together physically.
During the medieval period, pilgrims often recorded their impressions of the different Islamic territories through which they passed en route to Mecca as well as Medina, Mohammed's burial site 200 miles to the north. As a result, the pilgrims ...

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