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Why don't we believe people that lived long ago?

I believe in everything I read that was written long ago.
Everything, that hasn't been later dismissed by science.
And even science eventually comes back to agree.

Now, I believe in my Sarmatian.

Kill your enemy, or never be wed.

just a note

night had come faster then he realized.

when night comes, voices stop.

he'd have liked to say a few last words.

his heart had just been the sunset. red and yellow, but not for too long.
like the sun, it had been a glorious blue day.
but like the sun, the end had been a pain.

they say the sun is carried by gods in a chariot.
I wish I had caught the chariot tonight, leaving a not for you.
A note that drops on you when the sun wakes up tomorrow and fast runs across the sky.

A note that said what i told, only better and many more times again.
This note could be the one I just wrote,
reaching you

Byzantium

I'd like to spend a few words in favour of the roman empire.

In western europe, we grew up with the notion that the roman empire was ended when rome was taken.
Wrong, it went on. The empire absolutely lived with its imperial traditions long after.
In its new capital. A capital that was chosen much earlier than Roma was taken.
The capital of the emperor, head of the state and representative of Christ.

It was an empire that kept alive science, whose destruction by the turks led to the Renaissance in Italy, driven by the found-again science and philosphy that the greek speaking intellectuals from the roman empire brought with them.

An empire of christians next to muslims. Using arabs, before they were muslims, to fight the germanic tribes. Then using vikings to protect the emperor.

The world has always been a lot closer than we think. Only the last 2 centuries allowed governments to have such a strong grip on citizens and borders could really be closed off.

Osiris

жолти и красни.

I colori (цвет) del re(корол) che rivoluziona. Lavoro migliora. Giocato a calcetto.
Piani pasquali. Anzi devo chiedere le ferie. Borsa che e' andata un po' giu' ieri, oggi forse gia' si e' ripresa.

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http://www.foxdesign.ru/legend/osiris2.html

http://www.bergen.org/AAST/Projects/Egypt/religion_report.html#Osiris

город дорогая

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalush%2C_Ukraine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galicia_%28Central_Europe%29

Il sultano e' battuto

http://www.istanbullife.org/le_donne_dell_harem.htm

Khurrem o Hurrem (allegra)

Fu la favorita del Sultano Soleimano Kanuni ,"il magnifico".
Schiava, di nazionalità russa, per gli storici è conosciuta col nome di Roxelana.
Il cronista di quei tempi Pietro Bragadino scrive:
- ....altra donna di nation rossa, giovine non bella ma grasiada -.
Fu la madre di tre figli: il Sultano Selim II., il principe Murad e Maometto e di una figlia Mihrimah Sultana.
Grazie alla sua prontezza di spirito, alla sua furbizia ed alla sua intelligenza, fu la consigliera del Sultano fino alla sua morte.
Il Sultano fece costruire per lei un mausoleo nel giardino della moschea che porta il suo nome. Ad Istanbul, molte opere di beneficienza furono finanziate da lei.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxelana
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/islam/empires/ottoman/roxelana.html

In the Harem, she gradually worked her way up to become Süleyman's favourite concubine, gaining the name "Hasseki." In 1534 she used her influence to have Süleyman's firstborn son, together with his mother, sent away to be a provincial governor, and several years later apparently persuaded Süleyman to have him strangled - see Süleyman the Magnificent for details.

Khourrem was to bear Süleyman five children and, in an astonishing break with tradition, eventually became his wife, leading to one of her sons, Selim, inheriting the empire. Khourrem also may have acted as Süleyman's advisor on matters of state, and seems to have had an influence upon foreign affairs and international politics. Two of her letters to the Polish King Sigismund Augustus have been preserved and during her lifetime, the Ottoman Empire generally had peaceful relations with the Polish state. Some historians also believe that she may have intervened with her husband to control Crimean Tatar slave-raiding in her native land.

Agnes di Bisanzio

Ho sviluppato una passione per i libri che stanno a meta' tra il saggio e il romanzo storico.
Su periodi di cui conosco poco. Come Eshnunna, citta' Accadica.

Adesso invece leggo la storia di Agnese, moglie di Alessio II Comneno, imperatore di Bisanzio.
E' una scusa per raccontare di Bisanzio al tempo delle crociate (specie dopo la terza).

Mette in correlazione com'era il mondo in quei anni. Quando ad esempio l'Ungheria era un regno alleato di Bisanzio, il che aveva prodotto, tramite matrimoni, imperatori biondi.

O la descrizione delle torri fino ad allora inespugnate che si allungano fino alla Conca d'Oro.
Le storie del ducato di Provenza, passaggio obbligato per chi vuol raggiungere il re di Francia.