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Old 08-08-2007, 08:40 AM   #12 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by xenu View Post

In an interesting statistic, (Sam Harris, The End of Faith) Spain has translated more books into Spanish in one year than the entire Arab world in the last couple of decades.
Is this a recent stat though? Because in the Arab's defense, they didn't have the technology modern-day Spaniards have.
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