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Invented by Hans Lippershey in 1608, not Morgan Freeman in 1991.

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long before the robin hood legend

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Uhm, riiight...

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the movie wasn't exactly accurate on many fronts

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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.

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i 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.

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"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.

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