Geolinguistic Trivia

[mcgillianaire]

What, if any, is the relationship between the third longest river in Spain (The Guadalquivir) and the suburb of Muscat, Wadi Kabir?

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[pappubahry.livejournal.com]

Note: The word 'algebra' doesn't come from the name 'al Khwarizmi', but rather part of the title of al Khwarizmi's treatise, 'al jebr', which the OED translates as "the redintegration or reunion of broken parts".

[mcgillianaire.livejournal.com]

Yeh...