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Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it.
Yaqut al-Hamawi
Born: 1179
Died: August 27, 1229 (aged 50)
Bio: Yāqūt ibn-'Abdullah al-Rūmī al-Hamawī was an Arab biographer and geographer of Greek origin, renowned for his encyclopedic writings on the Muslim world.