Ottoman Porte
We’re still in Vienna 1838. So far our man has mentioned women twice. They are pretty. A female in an inn asked him for a cigar to smoke. This page says so much more to me than the actual words :o)
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Very Telling Words
From the recent shared pdf… Then too, the accelerated discussions of the Donation of Constantine (such as the origin of imperial power, the basis of papal authority over temporals, the pope and the transfer of empire, the pope‟s claims to Rome and the patrimony) since the eleventh century kept alive the issue of the […]
Read MoreI REJECT This.
FFS. OK. I know. Humour and Humbility (as M.Poirot calls it) are better than their bombs and their guns and their guns and their bombs but…there is a limit on the BS meter. Apologies, sincere and undiluted, to the maker of this. You say Drag – ut. I say Drag- oo. But I could be […]
Read MoreMilitary Engineering in the Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Turks may be called the Romans of the Muslim world. They imposed a definitive order upon what had developed earlier: a bureaucracy, a legal system, and Sunni Islam itself, with its balance between two ways of looking at religion, as a system of ideal social behavior and as a path towards experiential knowledge […]
Read MoreIstanbul (Not Constantinople)
Having a strange deja vu day, Shrug. Maybe it’s the Vay I dress? $64,000 question – Tomb or Temple? Aya. Sophia.
Read MoreThree Second Attention Span
Yes. Sheesh. I know. But I got very bored with India. Moving on to…
Read MoreYou Can Blame it on the Ottomans
And Lady Mary too! Yup. It’s all there in the “history” books. Early 18th century. And – it’s written in stone too. They did it!!!! A Pox on them.
Read MorePozz/Puzz/whatevzz
Wiki : Pozzolana Puzzolana mortar (puzolan harcı) was composed of puzzolana85 and lime. It quickly hardened under water. In fact, this material (also called ‘Roman cement’) had long been used widely in underwater construction before the introduction of cement (Aksoy 1982, 73), especially in European hydraulic architecture during the eighteenth century (Merino 1985, 47).
Read MoreEasier Said Than Done
Deconstructing a BS Historical “MYTH” that’s been around far too long is easier said than done! Here we meet the Mainstream story of Nakşidil Sultan and Selim III and why they are connected to Napoleon. Here, also, is the French and English fighting over who gets the biggest part of Tartaria – after the Romanovs […]
Read MoreNakşidil Sultan
Well. This one has blown me away. I understand now why I mentioned Nakşidil Sultan, in passing, the other day. She has a connection to le Brun via Selim III (previous posts) And the common denominator is… Napoleon Bonaparte. It’s all a bit twisty turny right now. But I’ll get there :o)
Read MoreEveryone Needs an Ology
The image above is from a document that I have condemning astrology. I have a bare knowledge of this “ology” – Myth-ology is more my subject. You can take or leave the Astrology thing but it is old and it was once revered. From Niketas Choniates (who, btw, was not a fan of Andronicus […]
Read MoreImportance of Vlad Tepes and Mehmed II
I’ve read both McNally and Florescu’s biographies of Vlad. M’eh. I keep getting bombarded with these articles…but there is hidden treasure therein :o) Importance of Vlad Tepes and Mehmed II
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Hidden History Research 