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Ahmad Farghani 
He was Timur's grandson and he ruled the country for 40 years. In 1424 he 
built a medrese. In 1428 he began the construction of a three level observatory in 
Samarkand. He was a great astronomer and mathematician, who calculated the 
length of the year as 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes, 15 seconds. In 1437 he finished 
a star catalogue giving the positions of 1018 stars. 
Mirzo Ulugbek 
He was born in Khiva more than 1200 years ago. He was a great astronomer 
He wrote "The book about Sky Movements", which became the main source of 
information about the sky planets and stars for many years. He had described the sky 
over: America before America was discovered. He was sure that there was an 
unknown continent in the West. 
Muhammad Al-Khorezmi 
He was born in the 9
th
century. In 825 he wrote a book on arithmetic about a 
new numeral system developed in India. This work was translated into Latin in the 
mid-1100s. The translator translated “Al-Khorezmi” into “algorithm”. The word 
“algorithm” now described a method of calculation and has become one of the most 
important words in science. The word “algebra” also comes from the title of his other 
famous book. 
Ibn Sina 
Europeans called him Avicenna. He lived between 981 and 1037. His two 
most important books are the "Book on Healing" and the "Canon of Medicine". The 
first was a scientific encyclopedia. The second became the handbook for doctors in 
Europe and Asia. It described 766 drugs to treat different diseases affecting all parts 
of the body from head to foot. 
Industry in the UK 

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Britain is one of the most highly industrialized countries in the world: for 
every person employed in agriculture 12 are employed in industry. The original base 
of British industry was coal, mining, iron and steel, and textiles. Today the most 
productive sector includes high-tech industries, chemicals, finance and the service 
sectors, especially banking, insurance and tourism. 
England is a steel producer for shipbuilding and car manufacture. 
Approximately 25 million tons of steel is produced annually. Sheffield and Leeds 
are important steel centers of engineering and shipbuilding. Liverpool is the center 
of aerospace engineering, chemicals and car manufacture. 
Manchester is one of the world's centers for the manufacture of cotton. 
Manchester's industries also include aircraft, machinery, chemicals and most 
important fishing port. 
Birmingham developed engineering, chemicals, electronics and car 
manufacture.
Cambridge is famous for software engineering (making programs for 
computers) and bio-chemical and bio-genetic products. Cattle-farming is the 
speciality of the west of England, Northern Ireland and Scotland. Wheat and fruit 
are widely grown in the south-east of England. 
Near the east and north-east coast of England and Scotland there are vast reserved 
of oil and gas. The UK is a member of OPEC - the Producers and Exporters Cartel.