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		xdennis 29 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon... How is Arab conquest of Palestine "resistance"? Palestine was at the time controlled by the Byzantine Empire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Muslim_conquest_of_Jerus...

angra_mainyu 29 days ago | [–]

Yarmuk 636 is one of the most depressing events in history.

Whenever I read about that or the disasters that ensued in the following centuries I always spend a day depressed.

Grim.

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