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    Connection #1 - Giordano Bruno to Baruch Spinoza         Connection #2 - Baruch Spinoza to Maimonides     Connection #3 - Maimonides to Averroes     Connection #4 - Averroes to Yacoub Almansour     Connection #5 - Yacoub Almansour to King Alfonso VIII  

1. The Forensic Sedimentologist The scientist stepped off the shuttle. The contrast between the dry chilly air he had been living in during the journey and the warm humid air of the planet almost overshadowed the abrupt change in gravity. He stumbled dropping his heavy case. Instantly a short muscular figure wearing only a short metallic kilt ran to his aid. [TO BE CONTINUED]

The Haze They sell only strange things now, see through the haze       Sand blown in from distant, dark-roasted dunes Things move overhead in the heavy daze       In the stream, in the stores under dark moons

Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur ( Arabic : ابو يوسف يعقوب المنصور ‎) (c. 1160 – January 23, 1199), also known as Moulay Yacoub, was the third Almohad Amir Succeeding his father, Abu Ya'qub Yusuf , Yakub al-Mansur reigned from 1184 to 1199 with distinction. During his tenure, trade, architecture, philosophy and the sciences flourished, to say nothing of military conquests. In 1191 Yaqub al-Mansur repelled the occupation of Paderne Castle and the surrounding territory near Albufeira, in the Algarve which had been controlled by the Portuguese army of King Sancho I since 1182. In the Battle of Alarcos , on July 18, 1195, he defeated the Castilian King Alfonso VIII . After victory, he took the title al-Mansur Billah ("Made Victorious by God"). The battle is recounted by the historian Abou Mohammed Salah ben Abd el-Halim of Granada in his Roudh el-Kartas (History of the Rulers of Morocco, French translation by A. Beaumier, 1860) in 1326. He died in Marrakech , Moro...

This was one of the wettest summers for Wisconsin since 1895. Summer precipitation includes that which falls during the months of June, July and August, and in all regions of the state the 2010 summer rainfall was ranked as the highest or second highest ever recorded.   Ask the Weather Guys: Top weather events of 2010

The Fountain Water was flowing into a fountain       Now overflowing onto a strangely Mosaiced marble floor to a distant plain       The stores recede, seen only distantly