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The London Eye An Important Landmark In London The London Eye, or the Millennium Wheel as it is also known, is a monster of a ferris wheel, 135-meters (443 feet) high, located on the banks of the River Thames in London. It is the tallest ferris wheel in Europe. Built in 1999, it is the “tallest observation overhang wheel in the world” and attracts more than 3.5 million people annually.   The London Eye An Important Landmark In London A very popular tourist destination, the London Eye is also an important landmark in London. In a book about the project, Sir Richard Rogers, winner of the 2007 Pritzker Prize, wrote, “The eye has done for London what the Eiffel Tower of Paris did, which is to give it a symbol and that people climb above the city and looking back down. Not only rich people or specialists, but everyone. That is the beauty of it: it is public and accessible, and it is a very good location in the heart of London. " The London Eye An Important Landmark In London An iconic

Image Source : namesinarabic The Arabic sources, as long as they do not attribute the invention of the Arabic script to Adam or Ishmael, tell us that the script had been introduced either from South Arabia region or from Mesopotamia (Iraq). Ibn Al-Nadim, for example, said that the people of Al-Hira, the capital of the Lakhmid dynasty in the Euphrates valley, used a form of Syriac cursive script which had developed into the Arabic alphabet. According to Siibawayh, the Arabic Alphabet is made of 29 letters, including 3 long vowels. He put them in the following order starting with the laryngeal and ending with labial, representing the place of articulation along the vocal tract.   Theory of Syriac origin has now been abandoned by most scholars. It seems much more likely to him that the Arabic alphabet is derived from a type of cursive Nabataean in Petra, Jordan. In the Aramaic script, from which Nabataean writing ultimately derived, there are no ligatures between letters. But in the cursi