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Anyone on the ship written about in True magazine account Around the world the hard Way?

craig g asked: My daddy was named Griffin. The boys on the Merchant ships in the U.S.Merchant Marine in World War II named him roy
because of the way he sang an old roy acuff song
He and several shipmates went on a 17 month round the world journey in World War II.
The captain [...]

What were the conditions in 6th and early 7th century Arabia which help account for the emergence of Islam?

ikillbaddudes asked: Why, perhaps, were Christianity and Judaism disadvantage in Arabia? Finally, considering Asia as a whole, why might it be that it was Islam, and not some other merchant-oriented religion like Buddhism or Jainism, which first came up with a whole system of commercial law and dispute resolution?