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by Diet Coke.

Time for a Diet Coke Break.

Enjoy what you like.

Just how you like it.

This is my taste. What's yours? Celebrate your unique taste with Diet Coke. The Garden was called the Garden of Delights. And in the middle of the

garden was a palace called the Palace of Marvelles belonging to the caliph Haroon al-Rashid.

Whenever the caliph felt his chest constricted, he would come to this garden and this palace to breathe freely, to amuse himself and forget his cares.

The entire palace was formed of one immense chamber, lighted by 80 windows.

This chamber was opened only when the caliph came.

Then all the lamps and the great chandelier would be lighted and all the windows

flung open and the caliph would sit on his great divan covered in silk, velvet

and cloth of gold and cause his singers to sing and musicians to delight him with their music.

And thus, in the calm of the night,

and amid the warm air sweetened with the scent of the flowers in the garden,

for Caliph could feel true contentment in the city of Baghdad.

So that Tom was the Arabian Knights and that is a description of the Caliph Harun al-Rashid, the person who is the

embodiment of the Golden Age of Baghdad, the subject of the new Assassin's Creed video game, and a subject that you've long wants to do on the rest of history,

Tom, with two episodes in, and this is the high point of medieval Islamic civilization, isn't it?

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