A Year In History  

A historian named John Julius Norwich gets 666 in his book “Byzantium” with a calculation.  “The ensuing strife continued until 661, when Ali’s own assassination left Muawiya supreme.  For the next five years the Muslim world would be in ferment – and Byzantium could breath again.”  

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