Tag Archives: Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent

caucasian cream of the crop

Posted on May 20, 2012 by Dave

In selecting a concubine, a Sultan held a regular weekly levee at which the virgins of the harem were brought in for his inspection; he dropped a hankerchief at the feet of the one who pleased him most, indicating she … Continue reading →

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in and around the seraglio

Posted on April 14, 2012 by Dave

….Turkey is putting up good economic numbers, and flourishing without the militarily imposed corruption that the Kemalist guarantors of secularism wallowed in as the price of preserving modern Turkey. Tiresome though Turkey’s anti-Israel posturing and pandering to the Arabs is, … Continue reading →

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rhodes : a maltese cross to bear

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Dave

The fighting monk, the clerical knight, contradictions in terms that could only be reconciled by the medieval genius for applied casuistry. The Order of Saint John became the military arm of the Crusader state.If we go back to the first … Continue reading →

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THE HAREM, THE SULTAN, THE PAINTER, THE EUNICH & HIS LOVER

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Dave

”The pressures of being prince aren’t easy in any royal family, and history is full of eccentric rulers, warped by a childhood spent under a golden thumb. But the stakes in the house of Osman were higher then in any … Continue reading →

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