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In this photo of Monday Aug. 23, 2010 visitors view a piece at the "1001 Inventions" exhibit in Istanbul, Turkey. The exhibition about innovation in Muslim civilization seeks to highlight what organizers say is an overshadowed period of history, a "Golden Age" in which advances in engineering, medicine and architecture laid groundwork for Western progress from the Renaissance until modern times. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)
Photo by: Ibrahim Usta
In this photo of Monday Aug. 23, 2010 visitors view a piece at the "1001 Inventions" exhibit in Istanbul, Turkey. The exhibition about innovation in Muslim civilization seeks to highlight what organizers say is an overshadowed period of history, a "Golden Age" in which advances in engineering, medicine and architecture laid groundwork for Western progress from the Renaissance until modern times. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)

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