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750Arab Caliphate [wars]Abu-al-Abbas, founder of the Abbasid dynasty of Arab Islamic rulers, defeats the Umayyad caliph Merwan II at the Battle of the River Zab. Merwan flees to Egypt but is caught and killed and his head is sent to Abu. Abu-al-Abbas's victory is followed by a general massacre of the Umayyad family and of members of his own family whose popularity he fears, for which he earns the nickname as-Saffah, ‘the blood-shedder’.


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Besides, I use subsidiary reservoirs only to attain a mean depth of 750 to 1,000 fathoms, and that with a view of managing my machines.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context
If we look to the large size and varied stations of New Zealand, extending over 780 miles of latitude, and compare its flowering plants, only 750 in number, with those on an equal area at the Cape of Good Hope or in Australia, we must, I think, admit that something quite independently of any difference in physical conditions has caused so great a difference in number.
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The total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural prices, not more than 750 pounds.
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