The Hungarian revolt of 1956 started at the foot of the Joseph Bem statue. The protesters probably didnโt know that Bem died as Murad Pasha and the Ottoman governor of Aleppo.
He was a great example of a career convert.
In Japanese lore, when a cat lives to a certain age, it grows another tail and can stand up and speak in a human language. It becomes a Nekomata.
#FolkloreThursday
Limit your access to the news for two reasons.
1. Drama sells and regardless of the topic %90 of the news is over-dramatised.
2. We are not evolved to worry about the whole world. This is a huge stress builder and will disturb your way of thinking. Put a cap on the things you
One reason I am using an English account is that it is more or less Turkish troll proof. Not entirely but to a great extent.
If we think of Turkish trolls as computer viruses, they tend to infect PCs (Turkish Twitter) a lot but don't bother for a Mac (English Twitter).
@AdamBandt
You are a day short Adam and no one buys that now.
Hamas is not the leftist Palestinian movement in the 70ties. Check your calendar.
Total moral bankruptcy.
Amritsar, 1997.
I did an overland from Istanbul to Tibet that year. Next to me is the senior percussionist of the Golden Temple. He was very cool.
(I am the one on the right)
@qikipedia
Her name was Theophano and here is her actual sarcophagus. Also here is a Byzantine fork as an example.
(Not the real fork that caused the blasphemous scandal!)
Please raise your voice against Olaโs detention. This is absurd in every level. I know Ola and he is one of the good guys fighting your digital rights
#olabini
"It turns out that pets also have last wills before they die, but only known to vets who put old and sick animals to sleep." Twitter user Jesse Dietrich asked a vet what the hardest part of his job was. The specialist replied without hesitation that the hardest thing for him was
One of the most magical moments I have experienced in my life was diving to 35 meters at night, sitting on the sandy seabed, turning off all the lights and playing with the luminescence in total darkness.
Aah, good old Middle East.
Two Assyrian soldiers forcing a Babylonian captive to grind bones of his his family. 6th c. BCE
#archeology
#Ancient
#assyrian
If he were educated and knew that these orthodox Jews oppose Israel just because itโs not founded by the โmessiahโโฆ
It is not about caring for Palestinians, It is about opposing the founding mechanisms of the State of Israel and the secular nature of Zionism.
He should read
We need more classical education in our schools.
A person finishing her/his schooling years without learning about Roman and Greek myths wonโt be able to understand visual arts, music, philosophy, Christianity and Western social values.
Here is the first chapter of my book "A Thousand Year Old Hometown".
A Thousand Year Hometown consists of intertwined stories spreading through five centuries. Through the ages, we follow Theo the Weasel get to know various characters.
#iamwriting
the first ever webcam was put online by the university of cambridge in 1993. it was pointed at coffee pot in a room near the computer lab so workers could check how much coffee was left
The word "lady" comes from Middle English hlafdia, which is a compound word made from hlaf "bread" and -dige "maid".
It literally means the one who kneads bread.
#etymology
โColour, as we perceive it, is the psychophysical reaction of the nerve signal generated by the receptors of our eyes, which distinguish electromagnetic waves of different frequencies.โ
-Carlo Rovelli
This is poetic.
#physics
#science
Osijek Bridge was built in modern Croatia by the Ottomans in 1566, during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent.
The bridge and the following wooden platform were said to be 8 kilometres long in total and generally accepted as a world wonder whilst it was standing.
How did the journey of
#coffee
start?
Turkish historian Peรงevi tells the story of the first coffee house in Istanbul. It was opened in 1554.
Ebru Boyar, Kate Fleet-A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul -Cambridge University Press