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One of the most widely used tools to propagate Islam among non-Muslims is the alleged harmony between its scriptures and modern science. This page contains easy-to-read summaries of articles discussing Islam in relation to science. See also the page Scientific Errors in the Quran for comprehensive summaries of the scientific and historical errors in the Qur'an.
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1.1 The Four Part Test
2 Medicine, Healthcare and Biology in Islam
2.1 Medicine and Healthcare
2.2 The Medicinal Value of Camel Urine
2.3 Dipping Flies Into Drinks
2.4 Adverse Effects of Islamic Fasting
2.5 Moderate Alcohol Consumption and its Health Benefits
2.6 Milk is Agreeable/Good for Humans to Drink?
2.7 Drinking Zamzam Water and its Health Risks
2.8 Health Effects of Islamic Dress
2.9 Embryology in Islamic Scripture
2.10 Reproduction in the Qur'an and Hadith
2.11 Cousin Marriage in Islam
3 The Universe According to Islam
3.1 Adam, Eve, and the Six Days of Creation
3.2 A Qur'anic Understanding of the Universe
3.3 The Flat Earth
3.4 The Motionless Center - Planet Earth
3.5 Sun Sets in a Muddy Spring
3.6 Ramadan and the North and South Poles
3.7 Islamic Writing and the Universe
4 Islamic Science and the Golden Age
4.1 The Miracle of Islamic Science
4.2 Muslims 'Saved' the Work of Greek Philosophers from Destruction
4.3 Islamic Inventions that Changed the World
4.4 Islamic Science in Wikipedia Articles
4.5 Genuine Islamic Inventions, Innovations, Records and Firsts
5 Science in the Qur'an
5.1 Scientific Errors in the Qur'an and Hadith
5.2 Non-Muslim Scientists finding Science in the Qur'an
5.3 Scientific Miracles in the Georgics
5.4 Scientific "Miracles" in the Quran
When evaluating claims of miraculous scientific information in "revealed" scriptures such as the Qur'an, it is critical to remember the dictum, "Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof." For certainly, miracles are not to be taken lightly. If miracles really are the results of direct intervention by God/gods, and if they truly are meant as signs to prove both his/her/their existence and power, then we should expect them to serve those purposes in a clear and unambiguous manner. If God is going through all that trouble to provide us with signs, it would defeat his purpose to make the signs difficult to recognize.
If we assume that Allah exists, it is safe to say that he is not a Las Vegas magician, and his miracles should reasonably be several cuts above the prestidigitation of Penn and Teller. An all-powerful universal God would doubtlessly be capable of providing miracles that were unchallengeable, unambiguous and dramatic. And it is fully conceivable that God would embed such clear signs of his power and omniscience within his revelation.
The claim of "scientific miracles" in the Qur'an rests upon the contention that the book contains specific and detailed scientific knowledge that can only have been revealed to Prophet Muhammad miraculously, i.e. that there was no possible non-miraculous way for such information to have been known to a 7th century Arab.
So it stands to reason that if there actually were non-miraculous ways for such information to be available, no miracle can be demonstrated. And it is important to test such claims, for we are not involved in a casual conversation about fashion or dietary preferences. We are talking about alleged proofs for the divine origin of the Qur'an.
The Four Part Test
For a "scientific statement" in the Qur'an to be considered miraculous, it must be capable of passing a four-part test that removes the possibility of a non-miraculous origin of the information:
1. It must be an unambiguous statement of scientific fact requiring no elaborate interpretation to discern its factual meaning.
This point cannot be stressed too intensely. For the scientific information in question must actually be in the Qur'an itself, and not something added later as part of a commentary. If the critical information that distinguishes a "scientific miracle" from a casual statement of obvious fact is not explicitly in the clear words and meaning of the Qur'an, we cannot trust it as even being there.
If the verse has to be "interpreted" to extract hidden meaning that is not obviously there, the claim of a miracle has been "corrupted" by the commentary, and cannot be considered valid.
2. The fact must have been previously unknown to every other non-Islamic civilization that had contact with the Arabian Peninsula.
Key to the claim of "scientific miracles" in the Qur'an is the contention that the information included was unknown until recently, or at least until many years after the death of Muhammad. So, of course, if it can be shown that the information was already available to other peoples or cultures with whom the Arabs were in contact, this claim is shown to be simply false.
It does not matter the source of that other culture's information. It may have been a lucky guess, it may have been the result of precocious scientific achievement… in fact it may even potentially have been a miracle the other culture had experienced years before.
But if that information was available before the Qur'an was written down, there can be no credit to the claim of a "Qur'anic miracle."
3. It must not be obvious to any casual observer.
This may sound like an obvious point, but given the nature of many of the stock "miracles" claimed by Muslim apologists, it still must be discussed explicitly. For often, what is claimed to be a miracle of the Qur'an is something of which any individual with his or her eyes open would have been aware.
If the information in question is available to anyone who simply looks at the phenomenon, requiring no sophisticated instruments, tools or interpretation, then it cannot be considered miraculous.
4. It must be true.
As with the previous point, this one sounds intuitively obvious. But it too requires explicit mention as occasionally the claims of Qur'anic "miracles" depend on misunderstandings or misstatements about reality and science. If the information in question is not actually true, then certainly it cannot be a miraculous revelation from God, as God should be expected to know what is or is not true.
Medicine, Healthcare and Biology in Islam
Medicine and Healthcare
Main Article: Medicine and Healthcare in Islam
Islamic medicine, healthcare and Biology relies on superstitions, general beliefs among the people during the prophet's time and borrowings from the practices and beliefs of other civilizations. For example; today you will find Muslims who champion the self-alleged health benefits of drinking camel urine (as instructed by Muhammad), but those who are actually willing to practice such things are far less forthcoming. The allowance and even encouragement of marriages between relatives, such as cousins, is another issue that deserves to be sent back to the 7th century. Medically, this common Muslim practice is harmful because it raises the probability for genetic disorders to occur in offspring. And the much lauded embryology found within the Qur'an is in reality plagiarized from Greek medicine. Therefore embryology, as described in the Qur'an, is neither original nor correct. These are but a few of the example which are covered in our articles.
The Medicinal Value of Camel Urine
Main Article: Camel Urine and Islam
This article is about the use of camel urine as medicine in the Hadiths and how such usage is viewed in the Muslim world. Muhammad prescribed camel urine as medicine to the followers from Uraynah. Because Muhammad is a prophet, Muslims believe he received a divine revelation from God. As a result they continue to study and prescribe camel urine as medicine despite the lack of evidence proving there is any medicinal value in camel urine and that there is some evidence that drinking urine is actually harmful.
Dipping Flies Into Drinks
Main Article: Diseases and Cures in the Wings of Houseflies
The thesis put forward by some apologists is that it has recently been proven by modern science that flies carry not only pathogens but also the agents that limit these pathogens, thus proving the fly wing hadiths that tell us "If a fly falls into one of your containers [of food or drink], immerse it completely before removing it, for under one of its wings there is venom and under another there is its antidote." They principally identify these agents to be bacteriophages, though they also sometimes refer to fungi.
The scientific evidence does not support the veracity of the fly wing hadiths for the following reasons: (1) Contrary to their innovative interpretations of relevant hadith, bacteriophages are not limited to any specific wing of the fly. (2) Contrary to their innovative interpretations of relevant hadith, bacteriophages in the natural state and concentration are not antidotal to bacterial diseases, particularly for temperate or lysogenic phages. (3) Bacteriophages are ineffective against non-bacterial diseases carried by flies, meaning even if the wings were to provide you with an antidote to bacterial diseases, they could infect you with another non-bacterial disease (i.e. dipping a fly into your drink is not good advice). (4) Phage therapy is not a generally-accepted medical therapy at present because it is largely ineffective and requires large quantities of purified, possibly genetically-engineered, phages not present in the natural condition.
Adverse Effects of Islamic Fasting
Main Article: Adverse Effects of Islamic Fasting
Medical fasting is different from Islamic fasting (Sawm), and contrary to popular Muslim beliefs, Islamic fasting, unlike Medical fasting, has numerous adverse effects that have been observed using scientific studies and news sources. Intermittent and prolonged fasting is generally not conducive to a healthy lifestyle. Depriving the body of water and essential nutrients by dividing and postponing meals to irregular intervals does nothing to limit consumption. In-fact it causes a host of health, performance and mood disorders. Fasting is not normally prescribed for the well being of human beings. Instead, it is commonly understood that eating healthy, smaller-portioned meals, interspersed throughout the day is far better in maintaining a well-balanced diet and far more forgiving on a person's metabolism. Any claims that prolonged and intermittent fasting contributes to the well-being of an individual's health are misleading, based on the scientific studies that prove otherwise. If the Islamic argument in favor of fasting is that "we fast because God commanded us to do so," then it is obvious that God is not a nutritionist or a dietitian because the negatives definitely outweigh the positives. So the question to the Muslim world is: what benefit does the Muslim world get for 1 billion people staying hungry throughout the day for one full month every year? Did Allah actually want Muslims to suffer physically, economically and socially for one month every year? Also, if fasting is beneficial as Muslims claim, why do Muslims not fast the entire year instead of just one month?
Moderate Alcohol Consumption and its Health Benefits
Main Article: Moderate Alcohol Consumption and its Health Benefits
Alcohol and other intoxicants are strictly prohibited (haram) in Islam. This aspect of Islam may seem rational, considering the abuse of alcohol can lead to social and health-related problems. However, when used in moderation, research suggests that there are numerous benefits in the consumption of alcohol, and an all-knowing deity would have been aware of this. The Jews and Christians are allowed to consume alcohol. The pagan Arabs before and shortly after their conversion to Islam also consumed alcohol. So why did Allah prohibit something that may be beneficial and which was an accepted norm among the religions before Islam? Apologists will cite Qur'an 2:219 and state "In them is great sin, and some profit, for men; but the sin is greater than the profit." However, if this was the actual reason behind its prohibition then it only reveals Allah's flawed logic. Surely an all-knowing deity would have only prohibited its abuse and not given us an outright ban. Furthermore, if the potential health risk of alcohol was the cause of the prohibition, why not also warn against the dangers of drinking milk?
Milk is Agreeable/Good for Humans to Drink?
Main Article: Qur'an and Milk
The Qur'an encourages people to drink milk and calls it "pure and agreeable to those who drink it." It is even being served in the Muslim Paradise. In reality, one glass of milk is potentially more harmful than a glass of alcoholic beverage. The Northern Europeans are among the rather small group of the totality of humankind to whom consumption of milk after the weaning stage is most 'agreeable' due to evolutionary changes. For much of the rest of humanity lactose-intolerance after the weaning stage is default.
So it seems that the Qur'anic statement "And verily in cattle (too) will ye find an instructive sign...We produce, for your drink, milk, pure and agreeable to those who drink it" is more appropriate to the genetic cluster of (mostly non-Muslim) Northern Europeans and their US descendants than to the other genetic clusters among humanity.
Drinking Zamzam Water and its Health Risks
Main Article: Drinking Zamzam Water and its Health Risks
Millions of Muslims visit the Zamzam well in Mecca each year while performing the Hajj or Umrah pilgrimages, in order to drink its water and, in many cases, to take home some of its water for distribution among friends and relations believing the well and the water which it pumps to be miraculous.
As with urine, milk, and alcohol, Muslims often make claims of their religious beliefs being backed by science. However, in May 2011, a BBC investigation found that genuine Zamzam water taken from the well contained arsenic levels three times the legal limit, something which could contribute to increasing people's risk of cancer. In addition to the dangerous arsenic levels, the holy water contained high levels of nitrate and potentially harmful bacteria.
Health Effects of Islamic Dress
Main Article: Health Effects of Islamic Dress
The majority of female Muslims worldwide, following the Islamic requirement of observing Hijab, wear some form of Islamic dress. This ranges anywhere from wearing a simple head covering, to the burqa (a form of "full hijab"), which covers almost all exposed skin.
There is concern among the medical community about some of the health effects of the extreme styles of Islamic dress, with the main issues arising from Vitamin D deficiency due to lack skin exposed to UV light. It has been established by credible scientific evidence that almost all women who observe the full hijab are chronically deficient in Vitamin D. Vitamin D is a vital nutrient and deficiency of this kind can lead to osteomalacia in adults and rickets in children. There is also a strong association between deficiency in Vitamin D and an increased risk of developing several deadly cancers, including breast cancer.
For Islam as a religion, the implications are troublesome. Islam is considered by its adherents to be the perfect way of life for mankind. If Islam was mandated by Allah, and if he wanted women to observe hijab, then logically he would not have created humans with the need to get Vitamin D from exposing their skin to the sun.
Embryology in Islamic Scripture
Main Articles: Embryology in Islamic Scripture, Embryology in the Qur'an, and History of Embryology
"Islamic embryology" is derived from both the Qur'an and the hadith, and is quite consistent across all the contributing sources. The core of the story can be found in the Qur'an, 22:5. There are a handful of additional ayaat that deal with this subject, and none of them disagree with the basic scenario. There is also more to learn from the hadith, particularly that of Bukhari and Muslim. Again, the accounts are quite consistent, and the additional information they provide is important.
The details of embryology as reflected in the Qur'an and the hadith can be summarized as follows; the embryo spends 40 days as a drop of sperm or seed, the embryo then spends another 40 days as a "clot" or a "leech-like clot" of blood, the embryo then spends another 40 days as a "lump of flesh" during which the gender of the child is assigned by an angel at Allah's direction.
These then are the details that must be correlated with actual embryonic development to evaluate the accuracy or inaccuracy of the Islamic account. The question is actually a simple one: Does this account describe the first 120 days of embryonic development or doesn't it?
Reproduction in the Qur'an and Hadith
Main Article: Greek and Jewish Ideas about Reproduction in the Qur'an and Hadith
The hadith contain many statements about fluids from both the man and woman that were believed to form the human embryo. The Qur'an too says that the embryo is formed from emitted fluid, and in one verse perhaps indicates a mingling of male and female fluids. In this article we shall present new research to trace the origins of each of these ideas at least as far back as the Jewish Talmud and the ancient Greek physicians. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the influence of ideas from other cultures on the Qur'an and hadith regarding reproduction. It will go without saying that these ideas are inaccurate compared with current scientific knowledge of reproduction and embryology.
Cousin Marriage in Islam
Main Article: Cousin Marriage in Islam
Cousin marriage is explicitly allowed in Islam as seen in verse 4:23 of the Qur'an. Muhammad himself married cousins, as he did with Zaynab bint Jahsh, who was not only the daughter of his father's sister, but was also divorced from a marriage with Muhammad's adopted son, Zayd ibn Haritha. Muhammad also allowed the marriage of his daughter, Fatimah, to his cousin, Ali ibn Abi Talib, who would later go on to become the fourth Rightly-guided Caliph of Islam. The second Caliph, Umar ibn al-Khattab, also married his cousin, Atikah bint Zayd ibn Amr ibn Nufayl.
From a biological point of view it becomes clear that first cousin marriage is not recommended because close relatives have a higher than normal consanguinity which means an increased chance of sharing genes for recessive traits. With this high amount of shared DNA, you have a higher risk of birth defects in a baby. The British geneticist, Professor Steve Jones, giving The John Maddox Lecture at the 2011 Hay Festival had stated in relation to Muslim inbreeding, "It is common in the Islamic world to marry your brother's daughter, which is actually [genetically] closer than marrying your cousin." A rough estimate shows that close to half of all Muslims in the world are inbred.
The Universe According to Islam
Adam, Eve, and the Six Days of Creation
Main Article: Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars:Creation
This page simply quotes authoritative Islamic sources, i.e. the Qur'an, hadith, and scholars, to provide you with an accurate picture of what Islam teaches of the creation of the universe and its human inhabitants. The basic creation narrative is consistent throughout.
It began six thousand years before the advent of Islam. The first thing to be created was the planet Earth, which took two days to complete, from Sunday to Monday. Then it took another two days to create the mountains, trees, and everything else. The final two days, Thursday and Friday, were spent creating the "heavens", the sun, moon, other planets, and a sixty cubits (approximately ninety feet) tall Adam.
Hawwa' (Eve) was created from Adam's left rib, whilst he was asleep in the Garden. She is blamed by Adam for persuading him to eat from the forbidden tree. As a result, they are both cast out from the garden in Paradise and sent down to the planet Earth, where their decedents continue to decrease in size.
As punishment for her transgression in particular, Allah makes Eve menstruate, suffer pregnancy and become stupid. Therefore, according to Islamic beliefs, today all women menstruate (are deficient in religion) and are created stupid (deficient in intelligence).
A Qur'anic Understanding of the Universe
Main Article: Cosmology of the Qur'an
This article is designed to uncover and explain the cosmology presented in the Qur'an and the Sunnah. More specifically, it will explore the Qur'an's understanding of the nature and structure of the physical universe.
To no surprise, the Qur'an's understanding of the universe matches that of the mythical cosmos believed by 7th century Arabians rather than an accurate description of the real universe.
In the Qur'an, the entire universe is very small and contains simply the earth and its surrounding heavens. There are no galaxies, other solar systems, or such a thing as "outer space." The earth is the top-most of seven, flat discs, surrounded by the seven solid concentric domes of the heavens.
The celestial objects that do exist (sun, moon, stars and planets) are quite small, very close, and they follow semi-circular paths within the innermost of the seven heavenly domes. When they are not in the sky above the earth, they are resting somewhere underneath it, except while petitioning Allah's permission to return the following day (or night).
Paradise exists between the seven heavens, and hell exists between the seven earths. All of this is submerged in a cosmic sea, above which is the throne of Allah.
The Flat Earth
Main Article: Flat Earth and the Qur'an
As recently as 1993 the supreme religious authority of Saudi Arabia Sheik Abdul-Aziz Ibn Baaz declared "The earth is flat. Whoever claims it is round is an atheist deserving of punishment." and in a televised debate aired on Iraqi Al-Fayhaa TV (October 31, 2007), Muslim Researcher on Astronomy Fadhel Al-Sa'd also declared that the Earth is flat as evidenced by Qur'anic verses and that the sun is much smaller than the Earth and revolves around it. As devout Muslims, they have good reason to conclude the Earth is flat; the Qur'anic verses 15:19, 20:53, 43:10, 50:7, 51:48, 71:19, 78:6, 79:30, 88:20 and 91:6 all clearly state this. While many have attempted to explain away this oddity, they prey on their listeners ignorance of the Arabic language. As such, their apologetic claims have been easily refuted by native Arabic speakers. There is no escaping the fact that, according to the Qur'an, the earth is flat.
The Motionless Center - Planet Earth
Main Article: Geocentrism and the Qur'an
This article examines the evidence for Qur'anic geocentric cosmology. Some may confuse geocentricism with the idea that the Earth is flat. This is not the case. These are two different ideas. Geocentrism simply is the notion that the earth is the (immovable) center of our universe, thus all celestial bodies mover around it. According to the Qur'an, the Sun (and the moon and the five known planets) follow a curved (rounded) course (a Falak). This falak starts in the east (where the sun goes up), goes high above the earth and ends after sunset with the Sun resting at night at a hidden place. All this took place around an earth that was spread out and had a firmament built on invisible pillars above it. This was a common belief at the time. Sahih (authentic) hadiths affirm this geocentric cosmology (so Muhammad or at least the people around him agree with it), and great ancient, and even modern-day, Muslim astronomists agree that the Qur'an is geocentric. In ancient times, many people - but certainly not all - did not know any better than what they seemed to observe everyday: the sun appeared to be going around the earth through our skies. We cannot blame a 7th century Bedouin for not knowing this, but should not the omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient creator of the universe know better?
Sun Sets in a Muddy Spring
Main Article: Dhul-Qarnayn and the Sun Setting in a Muddy Spring
The precise meaning of the opening phrases in verses 86 and 90 in the 18th chapter of the Qur'an, Surah al-Kahf, or "The Cave", is a matter of considerable controversy. These verses occur within an account concerning a powerful figure called Dhu'l Qarnayn, "the two-horned one", who Allah guides on a series of three fantastic journeys in Qur'an 18:83-101. They are controversial due to Muslim sensitivity to claims that they have Allah saying that the sun sets and rises in physical locations on or at the edges of Earth.
Our analysis shows that the various interpretations that have been proposed for verses 18:86 and 18:90 in the Qur'an to reconcile them with scientific facts do not stand up to detailed scrutiny. The evidence overwhelmingly supports the clear and obvious interpretation that this is intended to be understood as a historical account in which Dhu'l Qarnayn traveled until he reached the place where the sun sets and actually found that it went down into a muddy spring near to where a people were, and that he then traveled until he reached the place where the sun rises and actually found that it rose up above a people who lived close to the place where the sun rises.
Ramadan and the North and South Poles
Main Article: The Ramadan Pole Paradox
This article consists of a set of questions and answers exploring Ramadan's relation to the North and South Poles. According to Islamic rules, the length of a fast is governed by the rising and the setting of the sun. This can cause a huge problem for those who live close to these poles. The closer we get to the poles, the longer our days or nights become. They can eventually extend for up to several months each, making the fourth Pillar of Islam impossible to practice without starving yourself to death. Obviously Muhammad was unaware of the poles.
Islamic Writing and the Universe
Main Article: Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars:Cosmology
Islamic scriptures and scholars have much to say in regards to the cosmology of the universe.
It is narrated on the authority of Abu Dharr that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) one day said: Do you know where the sun goes? They replied: Allah and His Apostle know best. He (the Holy Prophet) observed: Verily it (the sun) glides till it reaches its resting place under the Throne. Then it falls prostrate and remains there until it is asked: Rise up and go to the place whence you came, and it goes back and continues emerging out from its rising place and then glides till it reaches its place of rest under the Throne and falls prostrate and remains in that state until it is asked: Rise up and return to the place whence you came, and it returns and emerges out from it rising place and the it glides (in such a normal way) that the people do not discern anything ( unusual in it) till it reaches its resting place under the Throne. Then it would be said to it: Rise up and emerge out from the place of your setting, and it will rise from the place of its setting. The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said. Do you know when it would happen? It would happen at the time when faith will not benefit one who has not previously believed or has derived no good from the faith.
Sahih Muslim 1:297
Islamic Science and the Golden Age
The Miracle of Islamic Science
Main Article: Setting the Record Straight: The Non-Miracle of Islamic Science
This is a refutation of Dr K. Ajram's "Setting the Record Straight: The Miracle of Islamic Science." The purpose of this analysis is to put the achievements of Golden Age Muslim scientists in the proper perspective; neither denigrating their achievements nor inflating them.
All scientific and technological progress is accomplished in progression; Muslim achievements are but links in the chain. Few of the great Muslim scientific achievements stood alone, but were derived by Muslim scientists standing on the shoulders of those who came before them.
This analysis also highlights the biggest flaw of the Islamic Golden Age. There were few 'follow-up' breakthroughs on the backs of the works of the great Muslim scientists. In effect, the Ummah allowed or encouraged these works to wither on the vine or die stillborn, even before the rise of mysticism at the expense of rational thinking, an event often attributed to al-Ghazzali around the turn of the 12th century.
Muslims 'Saved' the Work of Greek Philosophers from Destruction
Main Article: Arab Transmission of the Classics
The "Arab transmission of the classics" is a common and persistent myth that Arabic commentators such as Avicenna and Averroes 'saved' the work of Aristotle and other Greek philosophers from destruction. According to the myth, these works would otherwise have perished in the long European dark age between fifth and the tenth centuries. Thus the versions of Aristotle used in the West were translations from the Arabic, which came from the South West of Europe in the reconquest of Spain from the Muslims during the twelve and thirteenth centuries.
This is incorrect. It was actually the Byzantines in the East who saved the ancient learning of the Greeks in the original language, and the first Latin texts to be used were translation from the Greek, in the 12th century, rather than, in most cases, the Arabic, which were only used in default of these.
It is nevertheless true, and no myth, that the work of the Arabic commentators, particularly Averroes, had a profound influence on the scholastic philosophers of the Latin West in the thirteenth century. Aristotle's Greek is terse and very difficult to understand. The work of the Arabic commentators helped in explaining and clarifying Aristotle's dense and apparently obscure thought. Thus Western intellectual tradition owes a great debt to the Arabic scholars in terms of understanding Aristotle's thought. In terms of the texts, however, these would have survived had the Arabic commentators never existed.
Islamic Inventions that Changed the World
Main Article: How Islamic Inventors Did Not Change The World
These past few years have seen many inventions claimed and attributed to Islamic inventors, which in fact either existed in pre-Islamic eras, were invented by other cultures, or both. However, this detail has not apologists from perpetuating these false claims. Such claims have even been propagated through a nationwide tour which opened with an exhibition at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester and the University of Manchester, England.
To celebrate this series of events, an article titled "How Islamic inventors changed the world" was written by Paul Vallely and published in The Independent. This inaccurate piece of writing has received much praise and is still being widely circulated on Islamic websites, forums and blogs. This article lists and examines all twenty of these "Islamic inventions that changed the world", and in doing so, it reveals their actual inventors and the true role of Islam/Muslims, if any, behind the inventions.
In short, we find that Paul Vallely's article is fundamentally misleading. It omits, distorts, and makes blunders concerning the most basic of historical facts to give the reader a false impression. It leaves you wondering what could have possibly motivated him into writing such a deceptive piece of journalism?
Islamic Science in Wikipedia Articles
Main Article: Islam, Science and the Problems at Wikipedia
At Wikipedia, Islam-related articles are often compromised by pro-Islamic editors. An example of this is a 2010 incident where an editor with over 67,000 edits was caught intentionally inserting false information into articles.
Jagged 85 is the main contributor to the many inaccurate Islam/Science/Golden Age articles which are still being copied and pasted all over the internet by Muslims, and more than 20% of Wikipedia's "Timeline of historic inventions" was provided by him.
With contributions to over 8,100 separate articles, it is unlikely that all of Jagged 85's edits will ever be fixed. And even if they were, these Wikipedia articles have already been reproduced all over the net by other sites which use Wikipedia as a source.
Genuine Islamic Inventions, Innovations, Records and Firsts
Main Article: List of Genuine Islamic Inventions, Innovations, Records and Firsts
Many articles (for example, "How Islamic Inventors Changed The World" and "Setting the Record Straight: The Miracle of Islamic Science") have made provably false claims, attributing various inventions, innovations and discoveries made by others to Islam and its followers. This article lists only genuine Islamic/Muslim inventions, innovations, records and firsts. Examples include:
The yellow badge that was to be eventually used by the Nazis against the Jews, was invented by a Muslim caliph in Baghdad in the 9th century as a variant of the zunnār belt. This then spread to the western world in medieval times.
According to Dr. K. Ajram, the author of "Miracle of Islamic Science", Muslim scholars invented racial-typing centuries before the German Johann Friedrich Blumenbach "divided mankind into white, yellow, brown, black and red peoples".
The world's first PC virus, Brain.a, was created in September, 1986, by two brothers from Lahore, Pakistan, Amjad Farooq Alvi and Basit Farooq Alvi. They included their names, phone number and address in the code.
Science in the Qur'an
Scientific Errors in the Qur'an and Hadith
Main Articles: Scientific Errors in the Quran and Scientific Errors in the Hadith
This page lists various types of scientific errors found in the Qur'an. The subjects of these errors include; Evolution, Astronomy, Biology, Geology, Zoology and many others which are often confirmed by the hadith.
Non-Muslim Scientists finding Science in the Qur'an
Main Articles: Dr. Keith Moore and the "Islamic Additions" and Bucailleism
Bucailleism is the belief that "the Qur'an prophesied the Big Bang theory, space travel and other contemporary scientific breakthroughs," and that "there are more than 1200 verses (Ayat) which can be interpreted in the light of modern science." It has been called "a fast-growing branch of Islamic fundamentalism."
Named after the French surgeon Maurice Bucaille, its proponents believe that "one of the main convincing evidences" that lead many to convert to Islam "is the large number of scientific facts in the Quran."
The doctrine is "widely taught" in Islamic secondary schools, promoted on at least one popular weekly television program in the Arab world and is advanced by "a well-funded campaign" led by the Commission on Scientific Signs in the Quran and Sunnah, based in Saudi Arabia and founded by Sheikh Abdul Majeed Zindani, a leading militant Islamist and "Specially Designated Global Terrorist".
Resulting from the above mentioned Commission, a popular tool of da'wah is to show videos from conferences in the 1980s of various scientists apparently vouching for the scientific accuracy of the Qur'an. See these recent interviews with some of those scientists, in which they explain that they were tricked, misquoted, and misrepresented by Sheikh Abdul Majeed Zindani, who organised the conferences.
Scientific Miracles in the Georgics
Main Article: On the Miraculous Nature and the Divine Origin of Virgil's Georgics
This article argues that the Georgica, written by Virgil in Golden Latin in the year 28 BC, contains many scientific miracles (i.e. scientific foreknowledge). Furthermore, Virgil was an ancient Roman poet and the ancient Romans were polytheists, thus the Roman pantheon of deities must exist. Of course this article is written as part satire. It parodies the logic of Muslim apologists, and demonstrates very effectively how easy it is to reinterpret any ancient poetry, such as the Qur'an, and reveal so-called scientific miracles.
Scientific "Miracles" in the Quran
Main Article: Scientific Miracles in the Quran
This article provides a list of supposed "scientific miracles" in the Quran.
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Restrictive covenants are contracts entered into between the employer and employee to protect the employer's business interests, such as trade secrets and other confidential information, investments in employee training, and customer goodwill.
Non-compete clauses generally prohibit an employee from working for competitors or otherwise engaging in competitive business activities during the period of and for some set period after employment.
These provisions typically try to protect customer goodwill by preventing employees from attempting to take away the employer's customers post-employment.
These provisions typically try to protect the employer's investment in training and development of its workforce by preventing employees from attempting to take away the employer's employees post-employment.
The enforceability of restrictive covenants in the U.S. is determined by state law. Generally, courts in states that enforce non-compete agreements hold that a covenant restricting the activities of an employee upon the termination of his or her employment with the employer will be enforced if it protects a legitimate business interest, is reasonably limited in scope, time and place, and is supported by consideration, and is reasonable.
Irreparable Harm: Acknowledges that breach will cause and entitle employer to seek and obtain injunctive relief.
Attorneys' Fees: Beware of generic "prevailing party" language (some courts interpret this as a requirement for success on the merits).
Arbitration: Particularly if confidentiality is a real concern (including right to expedited discovery and relief).
Forfeiture: Conditions the receipt of certain benefits / compensation on the promise of non-competition.
Like restrictive covenants more generally, there is no clear federal law regarding garden leave and each situation will be examined independently. Unlike in many countries, however, it should not be assumed that garden leave would be valid in the U.S. if it does not satisfy restrictive covenant requirements.


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This subject needs some more writings. But nothing is enough to describe the nature of this city and the citizens of Kolkata. I have been noticing some real bad things about this city,and these are needed to be rectified immediately by what so ever method.
Like my father was admitted to two hospitals AMRI dhakuria and Rubi General Hospital. I have not experienced anything bad about AMRI,I mention again that it's my experience. But doctor's are very hard to meet,this is really bad part of the hospitals of Kolkata, and the money seeking tendency is too much here,for that the doctor did not give any medication for my dad after he was released,and for that he had to suffer a lot,they took good care at the emergency time,I am really grateful for this. They have saved my dad's life,but after that to pull it out from it's root they did nothing. I curse them for that.
After that the experience of Rubi is much more worse than AMRI. Doctor under whom he got admitted in Rubi was good,only this was the good thing in this portion of medication. My dad had to be given a Meropenem intraveinous injection,not instantly,with a duration of 40mins it had to be given. But one night a nurse was going to inject that instantly,dad noticed that and he did not allow to do that,he repeatedly asked the nurse,but she was over sure about that,dad got up from his bed and approached the head nurse,she was shocked and banned that nurse from dad's room! Though they apologized and promised not to happen again,but that does not cover anything,if that mistake would have happened my dad could have collapsed and died. These precautionary measures in these hospitals are very important to take,but they lack in this thing. I would like the governing body of the hospital or government of West Bengal to know these facts about the hospitals,because business with life and death cannot be permitted! And I have no experience about the government hospitals,but I know something that they are in terrible conditions,and need to be renovated and taken care immediately.


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The Right to Be Cold: A revelatory memoir that looks at what climate change means for the north
By Naomi Klein - March 13th, 2015
Published in The Globe and Mail
Sheila Watt-Cloutier is one of the most widely respected political figures to emerge from Canada's Arctic, and this potential was identified early on. When she was just 10 years old, she and her friend Lizzie were selected as promising future Inuit leaders and sent to live with a white family in the tiny coastal community of Blanche, N.S. Having grown up in Nunavik, Que., on dog sleds and in canoes, the young Watt-Cloutier loved new experiences and approached the long voyage south in the spirit of adventure.
The girls were in for what Watt-Cloutier now describes as a "brutal shock."
They were assigned to the home of a family named Ross, headed by a man with a nasty temper. Watt-Cloutier missed her family terribly and longed to return to her "Arctic childhood of ice and snow." Raised on seal and whale meat, she pined for "country food," as Northern game is known, and found the fresh peas and "tumblers full" of cow's milk at the Rosses' to be "revolting."
Sheila and Lizzie dutifully dressed in prim outfits and completed their schoolwork – but they also expressed their intense homesickness in "anguished letters" to family. The ones Lizzie wrote to her sister simply said: "I want to go home. I want to go home. I want to go home."
In one of the most unsettling passages in The Right to Be Cold, Watt-Cloutier describes discovering all of these intimate expressions "opened and spread out on the dining-room table." They would not be sent, the girls were informed, and from now on, all of their letters would be vetted by the Rosses.
The impact of this early violation of privacy was profound. "It took me a long, long time after that experience to feel comfortable or even able to express myself, my thoughts and my feelings. In one simple act, the Rosses helped to weaken my voice for years to come."
The loss, suppression and ultimate rediscovery of voice are themes that run through this courageous and revelatory memoir, which spans from Watt-Cloutier's earliest childhood at communal feasts in Old Fort Chimo; to go-go dancing at a residential school in Churchill, Man.; to rising within the ranks of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, the non-governmental body representing the interests of Inuit people living in four Arctic nations; to eventually becoming such a powerful advocate for Inuit rights at United Nations climate-change negotiations that she was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
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Apprising Ministries has shown you e.g. in John Crowder And The New Mystics that there's a younger section of the Word Faith Movement that's so far out there we can't even get a radar fix on them, to use the words of my good friend Bud Press of Christian Research Service.
Chrystal over at Slaughter of the Sheep is also a friend and she's a very good resource for exposing these kinds of false prophets/teachings ala the Manifest Sons of God, the Kansas City Prophets and the International House of Prayer (IHOP). In fact, about a month ago Chrystal alerted us to a supposed student awakening now going on at KC Prophet Mike Bickle's IHOP.
I received an e-mail from a reader who alerted me to the new "awakening" that is happening at International House of Prayer (IHOP). I have been keeping my eye on this lately, and given it's growth rate, it's time to alert the flock. If anyone is wondering if this is similar to Lakeland – yes.
You may recall that Lakeland was the stomping ground of false prophet Todd Bentley, who's friends—and spiritual running mate—with Crowder, is now being promoted by the MorningStar Ministries of Rick Joyner. Seems Joyner has been heading up the "restoration" to ministry of Bentley.
Not only that, but Bickle's IHOP Forerunner Bookstore even stocks John Crowder's book Miracle Workers, Reformers, and the New Mystics . Enter "Apostolic Pirate" Brandon Barthrop of something called Red Letter Ministries, the "prophet" in the video below.
Warning: This video is shocking, sad and EXTREMELY offensive. We are posting this here because it shows the true nature of the people promoting the Tokin' the Ghost heresy. (Remember we post this type of stuff because this is the Museum of Idolatry).
The man in the video is Brandon Barthrop and he has a "ministry" website called Red Letter Ministries that promotes getting high and whacked in the 'Holy Spirit'. Brandon has also made the rounds with John Crowder and Benjamin Dunn promoting the Tokin' heresy in churches.
This video exposes the true satanic nature of this heresy better than anything else we've witnessed.


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From the Advanced Setup tree, click Update. Figure 1-2 Select the client workstation(s) you want to send the Clear Update Cache task to in the All items pane, click >>and then click Next. Open the main program window and click Update → Update virus signature database. Antivirus How to fix "Error E9050 / W9050 Unable to load plug-in library"?
This has never happened before. s r.o. Delete the %AllUsersProfile%\Application data\ESET\ESET NOD32 Antivirus\Updfiles folder and Charon folders. Press F5 to open the Advanced Setup window.
Advanced Search Forum PressF1 NOD32 Won�t update. Press F5 to access Advanced setup. Deselect the check box next to Enable Self-defense. Delete all em0**_32.dat files.
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'Clare's Law is available but it needs to be more user-friendly'
Rosie Darbyshire
Catherine Musgrove
Clare's Law could be speeded up by the introduction of a new Domestic Abuse Bill, claims a specialist family lawyer.
Jennifer Curtis, a partner at Maguire Family Law which covers the North West area, said the Bill, would mean all police forces across the country would be working to the same set of guidelines.
The Bill, which has had its first hearing in Parliament this summer, has been touted as "the most comprehensive package ever presented to Parliament" to deal with domestic abuse, both supporting victims and bringing perpetrators to justice.
READ MORE>> Rosie Darbyshire asked police about her partner's violent past only days before she was brutally murdered - now her family are calling for the Clare's Law to be revised
One of its key aims is to put Clare's Law - otherwise known as Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme - on a statutory footing.
Currently Clare's Law is a set of guidelines, not a piece of legislation, and the police are currently under no obligation to disclose information. Therefore, how it works in practice can be completely different across different forces and there is the potential for police officers to simply have no idea what it is.
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If the Bill is passed, every force would have the same framework and expectations.
Jennifer said: "When you type 'Clare's Law' into Google, you literally get every police force's website in the country with their own page and their definition.
"Where do people start knowing what is the most useful information?
"We need to make it more cohesive, more centralised. The more structure and confidence the police has from centralised guidance, the quicker they can act on it.
"For instance, it might be that having guidance that if it's a Category Four offence committed within the last 12 months, then it has to be dealt with in such a way within such a time."
Single mum Rosie Darbyshire from Ribbleton made a Clare's Law application about her boyfriend Ben Topping 11 days before he murdered her.
She never received a disclosure about his violent past before her death, and now her family want to speed up the disclosure process as "the only positive that we can try and achieve from this".
Currently, forces throughout the country have 35 days to respond to an application.
Greater Manchester Police Chief apologises after children abused 'in plain sight'
The Post has worked with Rosie's family to launch a petition, calling on the Home Office to review the following:
• A reduction in the 35-day timescale for applications to be resolved
• A 48-hour callback from the police to update the applicant on the process after first contact
• A national database containing details of people charged with or convicted of violent offences
• A publicity campaign on what Clare's Law is and how to apply
Jennifer agreed that work was needed to speed up the process "but in a way that doesn't rush the outcome", and agreed a call-back option within the first few days would be useful for applicants.
She said: "I think it would be helpful to have an acknowledgement, the applicants need to feel supported and what to expect.
"It is also good to know that you've filled the boxes in correctly and the police have everything they need to do the checks, such as aliases.
"But there does need to be a box where you fill out how you would want to be contacted. That could be a phone call to a sister or a close friend who is trusted to relay the news."
However, she raised some concerns about the idea of a national database containing details of violent crimes.
Jennifer said: "There needs to be a balance between need to protect someone and data protection.
"Violence is such broad range of behaviour as well, it's not as black and white as an ANPR check on a car to see whether it has an MOT certifate or not.
"We see it where fathers come to us worried that a scuffle he had on a stag do as a 19-year-old will count against him in a family court, when he is now a 40-year-old businessman. It's not clear-cut."
She added: "But this is all coming from the right place and it's good to talk about Clare's Law.
"We see the impact of people understanding disclosures in our work. There was one woman whose partner told her he had convictions for a few minor offences, but the disclosure revealed he had 31 convictions for 80 different offences over sustained number of years.
"This was in the context of children's proceedings, but it helped the woman realise some fundamental issues.
"The fact that Clare's Law is available is great, but it needs to be more user-friendly."


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(CNN) -- The crew members of a North Korean freighter regained control of their ship from pirates who hijacked the vessel off Somalia, but not without a deadly fight, the U.S. Navy reported Tuesday.
The USS James E. Williams ordered pirates to give up their weapons, the Navy says.
When the battle aboard the Dai Hong Dan was over, two pirates were dead and five were captured, the Navy said.
Three wounded crew members from the cargo ship were being treated aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS James E. Williams.
The captured pirates were being held aboard the North Korean vessel, the Navy said.
The bandits had seized the ship's bridge, while the crew kept control of the steering gear and engines, the Navy said.
The Koreans moved against the attackers after the Williams -- responding to reports of the hijacking -- ordered the pirates to give up their weapons, according to the Navy.
When the crew members stormed the bridge, the deadly battle began. After the crew regained control, Navy sailors boarded the Dai Hong Dan to help with the injured.
The incident took place about 70 miles northeast of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, the Navy said.
It is the second incident of piracy reported in recent days. A second U.S. Navy destroyer was searching waters off Somalia for pirates who hijacked a Japanese-owned ship, military officials said.
Over the weekend, gunmen aboard two skiffs hijacked the Panamanian-flagged Golden Nori off the Socotra archipelago near the Horn of Africa, said Andrew Mwangura, a spokesman for the Kenyan-based Seafarers' Assistance Program.
The guided-missile destroyer USS Arleigh Burke has been pursuing the pirates after entering Somali waters with the permission of the troubled transitional government in Mogadishu, U.S. officials said Monday. In recent years, warships have stayed outside the 12-mile limit when chasing pirates.
Two military officials familiar with the details confirmed the ongoing operation.
The Navy's pursuit of the pirates began Sunday night when the Golden Nori radioed for help. The Burke's sister ship, the USS Porter, opened fire and sank the pirate skiffs tied to the Golden Nori's stern before the Burke took over shadowing the hijacked vessel.
Four other ships in the region remain in pirate hands, the Navy said.
On Monday, the head of the transitional government resigned as his administration -- backed by Ethiopian troops -- battled insurgents from the Islamic movement that seized control of Mogadishu in 2006.
Hospital officials reported 30 dead in three days of clashes on the city's south side.
In June, the ship USS Carter Hall fired warning shots in an attempt to stop a hijacked Danish cargo ship off Somalia, but the American vessel turned away when the pirated ship entered Somali waters.
The pirates often are armed with automatic rifles and shoulder-fired rockets, according to a recent warning from the agency.
"To date, vessels that increase speed and take evasive maneuvers avoid boarding, while those that slow down are boarded, taken to the Somali coastline and released after successful ransom payment, often after protracted negotiations of as much as 11 weeks," the warning advised.
CNN correspondents Barbara Starr at the Pentagon and Christian Purefoy in Nairobi contributed to this report.


It has occured to me that I'm doing this all backwards. I've been writing these editing posts first and trying to make the following poem match my predictions, when I should have been fixing the poem and then writing about what changed… wow, sorry about the weirdness.
I wrote a paper about how she is not a bird, she is a fish, I'll post it if I can ever find the final copy. I presented at a conference and everything, it was a rather novel idea. This poem, like my relationship with the novel, has taken a similar turn. From being about birds in the handwritten version to being about sailing in the revised. This is a perfect example of how editing and time can really affect the final work.
The poem will do what it needs to come to grips with what th ideas are. As I was still in a tumultuous time when this was first written, I was looking at summer and later birds, when I should have followed my gut.
The whole metaphor changes drastically, but the message of following an ideal and trusting a voice you cannot meet is made all the more clear. And though I often warn about poems with too little lines to really edit, this is an example of how a complete face life can be better than a point-solve editing tactic.
We get the same ideas, we get the same subject, but I feel more complete with the final line, and the feminism is subtle but present. And though sailing, like novels, tended to be a mainly manculine, the signs are there for a gender neutrality that Chopin suggests with her refusal of roles in her work.
The allusions are subtle but require a little pulling. In this case, you're not really in on the bigger picture unless you know a thing or two about the novel and the ideas that surround it.
Also, I've again fallen on fish as my symbol for success and freedom… this will happen over and over in my work. I am not so worried about a crutch here as a pattern that I need to mantain with the upmost integrity. When I get lazy, then I will worry about the fish as a fall back. Here I believe it works.
Edit twice, three times. As the poem changes, you may see the ideas present themselves. As a writer, you have complex and deep ideas that may manafest in your work that hide in early drafts. Work them to the surface, or lose a poem to its first sloppy draft. As a reader we analyze what might be there, form our own ideas, as a poet we must present the clearest, richest work for others to pick apart. Do you want to be part of the cannon or not?
Haha, that's a trick question, you wouldn't know if you got in the cannon until you're dead.


With just over a dozen games to go this season, Greg Cunningham insists North End need to focus on themselves and not the teams around them.
The Lilywhites sit just three points outside of the top six, and with the business end of the season well and truly underway, the Irishman has reiterated the important of remaining focused as a team.
Speaking to iFollow PNE, Cunningham said: "There's 14 games to go, the teams down the bottom are going to be fighting for their lives, the teams around the Play-Offs are going to be looking to nip in there so there is still so much to play for.
"This is a very competitive league so we just need to make sure that we are on it, that we focus on ourselves, take every game as it comes and make sure that we are racking up those points."
A key element of the success so far this season is the belief in the squad, and Cunningham feels that will play an important role in the final few months of the season.
"After games when we don't win there is serious disappointment and that just shows the belief we have in the dressing room and we know what we can achieve.
"We want to be picking up those point so that come the first weekend in May we are where we want to be.
"We've got to look after ourselves and racking the points up and not relying on other teams dropping points but at the same time, every little helps!
"We got a good point at the weekend against Wolves, and now we will look towards Tuesday night with Villa away and look to put in a good performance.
The last encounter between North End and Tuesday night's hosts Aston Villa saw a 2-0 defeat at Deepdale, an evening of frustration for Alex Neil's side who were without the vast majority of defenders in the squad due to injury.
On that game and putting things right on Tuesday, the left back added: "It just seemed to be one of those evenings, it was very frustrating as a whole but we dusted ourselves off after that game and we went on a great run and I think we owe them one tomorrow.
"We are going to their place looking to get a result, simple as.
"They won eight in a row before the weekend so they will be looking to bounce back and keep their automatic promotion hopes alive.
We have prepared well today, we'll travel down there tomorrow and make sure we make a good account of ourselves and get the result we want."


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La base Nagourskoïé, , (en ) est un aéroport militaire russe de l'Arctique situé dans l'archipel François-Joseph en Terre d'Alexandra, à  au nord de Mourmansk.

Géographie

Unique endroit habité de l'archipel, la station se compose entre autres des bâtiments de la caserne, d'entrepôts, de garages, de l'aéroport et d'une petite église en bois.

Histoire

La station polaire Nagourskoïé doit son nom à la base aérienne du même nom, lieu choisi en 1947 par le chef de l'aviation polaire Ilya Pavlovich Mazuruk. Le premier chef de la base aérienne était le pilote Kurochkin. La base aérienne originelle a été nommée en l'honneur de l'aviateur polaire Jan Nagórski. Pendant la grande guerre patriotique, à 100 km de la future base aérienne de la partie occidentale de l' île d'Alexandra, une station météorologique allemande, appelée Schatzgraber (littéralement « Chasseur de trésors »), servait de base aux sous-marins rendant possible le ravitaillement de ces-derniers. La station météorologique a été ouverte dans le cadre du projet, baptisé Wunderland (Pays des merveilles) en 1943 et a fonctionné jusqu'en . Les restes de cette station ont été découverts par Ilya Pavlovich Mazuruk lorsqu'il recherchait, en avion, un emplacement pour créer Nagourskoïé.

En 1947, en pleine guerre froide, la Russie décide d'y réinstaller une base militaire, base de bombardiers pour l'aviation à long rayon d'action permettant d'atteindre les États-Unis. En 1951, lors d'une ronde au-dessus de la Terre Alexandra, un groupe de pilotes polaires soviétiques; avec la participation du navigateur Akkouratov, découvrit une pirogue peinte en blanc. Selon les documents trouvés dans la pirogue, un groupe météorologique de 10 personnes a été envoyé sur l'île sous la direction du lieutenant Makus et le chef scientifique Dressa. L'expédition a commencé ses travaux le . Dans le personnel du groupe, il y avait aussi un chasseur professionnel - Werner Blankenburg, qui a abattu un gros ours polaire. La totalité du personnel de la station, empoisonné à la viande d'ours, a contracté la trichinose et a été évacué dans un Focke-Wulf FW 200 . En 1981, la porte frontalière Nagourskaïa a été mise en service. Le , une station météorologique a été fermée en Terre Alexandra tandis que la station hydrométéorologique marine a été fermée en 1997.

Le , un avion cargo Antonov An-72 s'écrase sur la piste, ce qui en fait un des accidents d'avion les plus au nord survenus. Le , une plaque commémorative a été érigée sur la terre Alexandra «comme le signe qu'ici, à Nagourskoïé, en terre François-Joseph, la première base russe sera créée, à partir de laquelle débutera le développement de l'Arctique au ». En 2006, 200 tonnes de matériaux de construction et 24 pièces d'équipement ont été transportées depuis Arkhangelsk sur l'île d'Alexandra. En 2008, un nouveau complexe administratif et résidentiel a été ouvert à Nagourskoïé. Le , une réunion du Conseil de sécurité de la fédération de Russie s'est tenue à Nagourskoïé. Il était consacré aux "problèmes de l'augmentation de la présence de la Russie dans l'Arctique". En , un complexe météorologique automatique a été installé sur Nagourskoïé. L'aérodrome de Nagourskoïé fait désormais parti des 13 aérodromes qui seront restaurés en vue de la création, le , du Nord-Commandement stratégique unifié. À l'avenir, les unités radio-techniques de la défense aérienne et des forces aériennes seront basées ici. En 2014, il était prévu d'exporter environ  de déchets sur quatre îles de l'archipel François Joseph, en particulier des bâtiments délabrés, des structures impropres à l'habitation, des machines abandonnées, de la ferraille, des déchets ménagers et industriels, etc.

L'aéroport est toujours opérationnel.

Bibliographie

 Mark Nuttall, Encyclopedia of the Arctic, 2012,

Notes et références

Terre François-Joseph
Nagourskoïé

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In this savage and witty parable written in exile in 1941, Brecht recasts the rise of Hitler as a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade. This prizewinning translation by Ralph Manheim skilfully captures the wide range of parody and pastiche in the original - from Richard III to Al Capone, from Mark Antony to Faust - without diminishing the horror of the real-life Nazi prototypes.
A major dramatist of the twentieth century, Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)was the founder of one of the most influential theatre companies, theBerliner Ensemble, and the creator of some of the landmark plays of thetwentieth century: The Threepenny Opera, The Life of Galileo, MotherCourage and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.


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And then consider this: In many ways, we are still in the early years of the Internet of Things, which is poised for dramatic growth. Gartner forecasts that, by 2020, 20.4 billion connected things will be in use worldwide, up from 8.4 billion in 2017.[1]
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Q: Trouble updating Linux Mint Addendum2- added to respond to the followup
comment/question of terdon.

Addendum added to respond to the
comment/question of terdon.

I am having trouble updating / upgrading Linux Mint.  7 days ago, from the command line, I issued a sudo apt update -y and a sudo apt upgrade -y.  Both commands appeared to run okay, with no problems.
This evening I encountered a problem.  Checking my version:
$ cat /etc/issue

shows
Linux Mint 20.3 Una \n \l

This evening I issued the command:
steve@steve-H97-D3H:~$ sudo apt update -y

and it gave
steve@steve-H97-D3H:~$ sudo apt update -y
Hit:1 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:2 https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Hit:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/obsproject/obs-studio/ubuntu focal InRelease
Ign:4 http://packages.linuxmint.com una InRelease
Hit:5 http://packages.linuxmint.com una Release
Hit:7 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Get:8 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease [114 kB]
Hit:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease [114 kB]
Get:11 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease [108 kB]
Fetched 336 kB in 11s (29.7 kB/s)
steve@steve-H97-D3H:~$ . 65%

After waiting 1 minute, I used Ctrl-C to restore my command line.
Then, I issued
steve@steve-H97-D3H:~$ sudo apt upgrade

which produced
steve@steve-H97-D3H:~$ . 65%

Again, I used Ctrl-C to restore my command line.
Then, I invoked the Update Manager gui.  It showed the message processing updates at the bottom of the gui and showed the spinning arrow, indicating that it was busy.
How do I investigate this and remedy the problem, so that I can (once again) periodically update/upgrade my system?

Addendum
Responding to the comment/question of terdon.
Although I am a retired programmer, my knowledge of internal Linux processing is very superficial.  I have never before seen the symptoms listed below, and I would like to understand them.
If these symptoms represent Linux Mint's way of indicating that there is nothing to update or upgrade, then that is fine.  It is certainly different than how Fedora used to communicate this.
My blind, uneducated speculation, which could easily be wrong, is that that there is a problem accessing one of the repositories.  If this is a temporary problem that will dissipate on its own, within a few days, then that does not represent a problem for me.  However, I need for someone very knowledgeable in this area to evaluate the symptoms and definitively explain them:

*

*The update command seemed to finish with a 65% message, that seemed to spill over into the next command line.
I have never seen this type of behavior before.  Normally, when a command finishes, a command prompt is returned, with nothing on that line. Alternatively, if the command gets hung up, for any reason, a command prompt is not returned.
What caused this type of unusual behavior?
Also, what is the significance of the 65% message?  65% of what?

*The upgrade command similarly finished.  So, similar questions are raised with respect to this command.

*The update manager gui seems to hang.  In fact, experimenting, I left this gui running overnight, and in the morning, the gui still had not finished.
I don't think that the unusual behavior of the update manager gui is coincidental.  I think that there is some underlying anomaly that explains all three symptoms.
In order for me to keep my system healthy, I need to understand the cause of the anomaly.

Addendum-2
Responding to the followup comment/question of terdon.

Can you confirm that simply pressing Enter also clears it, just like your Ctrl+C did? That the GUI hing hangs is more worrying.

No, I can't confirm what simply pressing Enter would have done.  I just tried to re-create the situation, so that I could press Enter.  On this particular attempt, both the update process and the upgrade process appeared to run smoothly.  The results are shown at the end of this Addendum-2.  So, this portion of the anomaly does appear to be a temporary (remote) respository problem that was resolved.
Assuming so, I don't really need to investigate what caused the temporary remote problem.
However, after all of the upgrades had been processed, I then re-invoked the update manager gui.  As before, the update manager gui showed the message processing updates at the bottom of the gui and (as before) the gui also showed the spinning arrow, indicating that it was busy.

Please also try running sudo -i` to get a root shell, and then in that shell try running apt update.

I held off on this, since the updates and upgrades appeared to go through okay.  The only pending anomaly is therefore the update manager gui, which I never use anyway.  If that particular issue persists, after I run updates next Sunday night, then I will do a cold boot next Monday morning, and then re-invoke the update manager.  Then, if needed, I will initiate a separate unix.stackexchange posting.
Executing the update command:
steve@steve-H97-D3H:~$ sudo apt update -y

gave:
[sudo] password for steve:
Hit:1 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:2 https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Hit:3 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Ign:5 http://packages.linuxmint.com una InRelease
Hit:6 http://packages.linuxmint.com una Release
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Get:23 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/multiverse amd64 c-n-f Metadata [592 B]
Get:24 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [7,984 B]
Get:25 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [30.5 kB]
Get:26 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/main i386 Packages [461 kB]
Get:27 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [40.7 kB]
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Get:29 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [66.2 kB]
Get:30 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/multiverse amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [2,464 B]
Fetched 6,841 kB in 12s (562 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
8 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
steve@steve-H97-D3H:~$

Executing the upgrade command:
steve@steve-H97-D3H:~$ sudo apt upgrade -y

gave:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-5.4.0-100 linux-headers-5.4.0-100-generic linux-headers-5.4.0-104
  linux-headers-5.4.0-104-generic linux-headers-5.4.0-99 linux-headers-5.4.0-99-generic
  linux-image-5.4.0-100-generic linux-image-5.4.0-104-generic linux-image-5.4.0-99-generic
  linux-modules-5.4.0-100-generic linux-modules-5.4.0-104-generic linux-modules-5.4.0-99-generic
  linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-100-generic linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-104-generic
  linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-99-generic
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be upgraded:
  curl firefox firefox-locale-en isc-dhcp-client isc-dhcp-common libcurl3-gnutls libcurl3-gnutls:i386 libcurl4
8 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 64.2 MB of archives.
After this operation, 1,407 kB disk space will be freed.
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In his keynote address, Mr. John Dramani Mahama points out that any government that is serious needs to put the following in place.
i) Tourism policy and guidelines: for effective support by government is needed for effective implementation of guidelines.
ii) Effective Competitiveness: Tourism developments must be able to compete effectively on a global scale.
iii) Human Resources: Tourism is a people industry, thus the need for development and guidelines of the sector.
iv) Sustainability of Natural Resources: Cooperation with the local community to preserve the tourism facilities in their community. Most of our natural tourism sites are in local communities.
There were paper presentations and different panel Discussions. Some of the panelist presents includes: Prince Yemisi Shyllon, Mr. Desmond Majekodunmi, Mr. Koye Edu, Mrs Omotayo Omotoso, Mr Philip Hughes, Mr Herbert Wigwe, Ms Ojoma Ochai, Hon. Desmond Elliot, Otunba Wanle Akinboboye, Mo Abudu, Mrs Lanre Da-Silva Ajayi, to mention a few. The different panel sessions had Ms. Lola Shoneyin, Mrs Nneka Isaac-Moses, Mrs Opunimi Akinkugbe and Mrs Abiola Alabi as moderators.
Lead paper presentation on 'Destination Lagos: Towards a Susutainable Tourism-Driven Economy' was delivered by Prof Ibukunoluwa Ayodele. Prof. Pat Utomi presented a paper on 'Financing Tourism: The paths and possibilities for Lagos State' where he highlighted Tourism as low hanging fruit for Lagos.
He also pointed out the following as keys to Lagos becoming more tourist friendly: Transport Infrastructure; Safety; Information; Organizing and managing access to places of desire; and promoting destinations.
Mr. Ikechi Uko, travel expert and organiser of the Akwaaba African Travel Market, presented a paper on 'MICE, Creative content as tourism sector panacea.' MICE stands for Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions. Mr Uko pointed out that countries like Ghana, Kenya and Rwanda credited the growth in the Tourism industry in their countries to MICE.
It is time for Lagos to take advantage of its arts, culture and most especially it's aquatic splendour in becoming a MICE destination of choice.
Some of the highlighted issues on the to-do list proposed to the Lagos State Government are: 1) Urgent need to train tour operators as entrepreneurs 2) Need for Tourist Clubs/Society in schools 3) Setting up of technical committee on Tourism 4) Proper tourism infrastructure.
Questions includes: How do we turn a business person to a tourist for 24-48 hours? How do we expect people to buy into our Tourism initiatives? More importantly is the need for everyone to think of Tourism in the value chain and teach others about the value chain.
All these discussions, paper presentations and all would have not be possible without the dedication of the Mr Steve Ayorinde, Commissione for Tourism, Arts and Culture, with his whole team.
We hope to have a Tourism roadmap by next year with proper implementation.


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Riding the cable car in La Paz one can escape the daily traffic jam. Awesome views included. © Adobe Stock sunsinger
26. March 2019 Kategorie: News 3 min. read
It does not always have to be autonomous taxis. When it comes to protecting mega-cities from traffic collapse, cable cars can transport people at high altitude in a very efficient, safe, reliable and environmentally friendly way. Moreover, cable cars are cheap compared to subway systems.
In early March 2019, Line 10 of the cable car system in La Paz in Bolivia was taken into operation, thus completing the largest cable car system in the world. It covers a distance of 33 kilometers and an altitude of almost 1,000 meters and took only seven years of construction. "Wow!", as many city planners would say not only in Latin America. Especially because the metropolitan area of La Paz and El Alto with a population of 1.8 million inhabitants was in a city planning impasse.
"An entire network of #cable cars connects the two Bolivian cities # LaPaz and # ElAlto."
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Until recently, El Alto had no functioning public transport system. The narrow and winding streets of the city center could no longer accommodate the increasing private traffic that clogged the highways. Topographically, the construction of a subway was not an option. Also, a much faster solution was necessary. In 2012, the first cable car line was opened. Now, with the operation of line 10, the existing stations are connected.
Considering the location of the two cities a cable car system makes perfect sense. It connects La Paz which is located in a canyon at around 3,200 meters with the now independent district of El Alto located on a high plateau at 4,100 meters altitude. In addition, the construction of a cable car system takes up little space. Instead of a complex road network, it requires only supporting towers. With only a few installations on the ground, cable cars can also cross narrow residential areas.
Almost silently and completely emission-free across the city
However, the 26 transfer stations definitely need space: The largest station "Faro Murillo", which was opened in March 2019, covers an area of 10,000 square meters. Here, passengers can change to line 9 which was already opened a year ago.
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The Air Metro is a blessing for the old town in the basin suffering from exhaust fumes. Every day, up to 300,000 passengers use the cable car system, which transports them almost silently and completely emission-free across the city, faster than any taxi driver could do. By car it takes at least an hour to get from La Paz to El Alto. But it takes only 17 minutes on the cable car.
Whoever thinks that urban cable cars are just a bizarre phenomenon in a Andean metropolis, is wrong. In addition to its state-of-the-art subway system, London has a cable car crossing the River Thames. It was opened in 2012. Brest has one, too. There, it is integrated into the whole public transport system. Toulouse is currently building one. Rome and Vienna are at least thinking about it. Cable car systems do not seem out of place after all!
Katharina Berthold
Digitization is increasingly penetrating all of society. Which technologies are real innovations? How do they change our lives? As a concept developer and technology journalist, Katharina Berthold works in various tech industries. Logistics is currently one of the most exciting locations for digital transformation. For logistik aktuell, Katharina Berthold writes about technology and what we can expect from it.
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