Telescope
Invented by Hans Lippershey in 1608, not Morgan Freeman in 1991.
sharelong before the robin hood legend
shareUhm, riiight...
sharethe movie wasn't exactly accurate on many fronts
Well, I obviously understand it was a fictional story and gets a lot of history wrong. But this was especially lame because its purpose was to show how techically and scientifically advanced those supposedly barbaric Arabs were. Wrong example.
sharei do have problems with current day arab countries and especially islamic republics. just not sure this movie was meant to make some point about the superiority of arab culture.
share"just not sure this movie was meant to make some point about the superiority of arab culture."
That's not exactly what I said. He is a sort of Arab equivalent of the "magical negro", though.