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HomeGoods is one of those stores that if you find something you like, it’s best to grab it immediately. Because, it might not ...
If you're currently looking for a new bed, you might have come across the term 'ottoman' and be wondering just what an ottoman bed is. As a sleep expert who's spent the last four years writing ...
The Promise, starring Oscar Isaac and Christian Bale and directed by Hotel Rwanda’s Terry George, is the more high-profile of the two features, having received a major marketing push in recent ...
Berghahn Books has announced the publication of A German General and the Armenian Genocide: Otto Liman von Sanders Between ...
As depicted in the dramatic trailer (filled with fezzes!), it is there where she falls for an Ottoman soldier played by “Game of Thrones” star Michiel Huisman (Daario, your love life’s a ...
Empire of the Sultans: Ottoman Art from the Khalili Collection. August 1-October 7 Page from the Siyer-Nebi of Erzurumlu Mustafa Darir (1 of 2), Istanbul, circa 1594-5, gouache and gold on paper.
The executioners of the Ottoman Empire were never noted for their mercy; just ask the teenage Sultan Osman II, who in May 1622 suffered an excruciating death by “compression of the testicles ...
Kiepert maps of Asia Minor (Turkey) remained the basis of those made by the Ottoman General Staff, as well as by the British, German, Greek, and Italian armies during and after World War I. Talbert ...
A prominent example is Haqqi al-Azm, who, among other positions within the Ottoman empire, held the inspector general post at the Ottoman Ministry of Awqaf; in the 1930s, he served as Syria’s ...
Even more chilling is the case of Petrossian, the family servant, an Armenian. Petrossian tells the Stone Woman that his sister’s house has been set on fire in an attempt to drive the Armenians out of ...
This image, of a captured Ottoman general during the 1912-13 First Balkan War, is one of scores of pictures of the conflict made by photographer Samson Chernov. Serbian forces encamped in the ...