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pdq | BS: Caliphate (1365* d) | RE: BS: Caliphate | 14 Jul 14 |
In Mark Twain's book "Innocents Abroad" he travel through the Holy Land and observes that it is dry, inhospitable and nearly empty. That was 1867, many years after Adriaan Reland observed similar things, although Reland was more of an accurate historian than Twain, and entertaining curmudgeon. |