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• Patriarchate Asks for Title to U.S. Church Property

  
  AOI Observer — Authority: 427
  Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew wants legal title to properties around the world, but how would this, as the author below argues, secure the legal position of the the Patriarchate vis-a-vis the Turkish government? Further, with the request for metropolitans worldwide to apply for Turkish citizenship, the Ecumenical ...
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• Pashas: Traders and Travellers in the Islamic World by James Mather | Book review (Guardian Unlimited)

  
  Adam Dicker | Domain Expert — Authority: 160
  Maya Jasanoff enjoys a sensitive history of the Levant Company To early English visitors, the grandeur of Constantinople’s setting alone, on the border of Europe and Asia, made the city seem “built to command all the world”. They marvelled at a skyline of cascading domes and pencil minarets, the fearsomely ...
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• Those we have lost… Iraq and Afghanistan

  
  Herobracelets — Authority: 138
  We upload names from the DOD every week. Sgt James M Dorsey    Beardstown, IL    Army     2/8/09    I    M Spc Christopher P Sweet    Kahului, HI    Army     2/6/09    I    M Sgt Darrell L Fernandez    Truth or Consequences, NM    Army     1/31/09    I    M Chief ...
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• "Kara Bocek" and the Pulp December

  
  Pulp Sunday — Authority: 120
  Hello Pulp friends :) So lets get this December started, shall we? :D Planning to bring the PULP/NOIR back to Pulp Sunday after the Horror October and SciFi November . That means also more Black Beetle tales! :) We left Black Beetle in his free-fall from an 18 story building in the prologue of " NO WAY ...
  2 weeks ago

• Learning from the longevity of the Byzantine Empire

  
  disassociated.com — Authority: 146
  Seven key military strategies that saw the Byzantine – or Eastern Roman – empire stand for over one thousand years (although virtually all territory had been lost prior to 1453), that latter-day superpowers could learn from. Campaign vigorously, both offensively and defensively, but avoid battles, especially ...
  4 weeks ago

• Daily Links for November 14th through November 16th

  
  Akkam's Razor — Authority: 127
  All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s). Take me back to Constantinople, by Edward Luttwak | Foreign Policy - Economic crisis, mounting national debt, excessive foreign commitments -- this is no way to run an empire. America needs serious strategic counseling. And fast. It has never been Rome, and to ...
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