The Next Idea

Exhibit unearths golden innovations from the so-called Dark Ages


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The Next Idea You've probably heard of One Thousand and One Nights . It's a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales in Arabic from what's known as an Islamic Golden Age collected over many centuries. The English-language version is The Arabian Nights . Something else stemming from that bygone era is coming to the Michigan Science Center — an exhibition called 1001 Inventions: Untold Stories from a Golden Age of Innovation.
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The Next IdeaBy Mark Brush