ONCE UPON A time there was a king who had three beautiful daughters. These daughters grew to be women, and the women had children, beautiful children, so many, many children, only something bad happened ,
something stupid ,
criminal ,
terrible ,
something avoidable ,
something that never should have happened ,
and yet something that
As rationality rose ascendant from the ashes of Christianity, the great threat of total systems accompanied it. Communism, in particular, was attractive not so much to oppressed workers, its hypothetical beneficiaries, but to intellectuals—to those whose arrogant pride in intellect assured them they were always right. But the promised utopia never emerged. Instead humanity experienced the inferno of Stalinist Russia and Mao’s China and Pol Pot’s Cambodia, and the citizens of those states were required to betray their own experience, turn against their fellow citizens, and die in the tens of millions.
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Women were, however, actively involved in the revolutions that won America its independence from Britain in 1783 and convulsed France from 1789. Amid the rallying cries of liberty and citizens’ rights, women also began to demand their own rights. In America, Abigail Adams, the wife of the second US president, called for the founding fathers to “remember the ladies” in the revolutionary changes, while in France playwright and activist Olympe de Gouges published The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen , calling for equal legal rights for women and men.
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"Khabu? said the Shah again, peering out at the city.
"The Shah wishes to know, please, where we are now,' said
Khashdrahr. 'I know,' said Halyard, smiling wanly. It had been khabu and siki and akka sahn until he was half out of his mind. He leaned forward. 'Ilium, New York, your highness. We are about to cross the
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On January 13, 532, Constantinople exploded. For the first time ever, the Blue and the Green factions united, under the common rallying-cry of Nika, “Conquer.” They wished to replace Justinian’s advisers, and eventually to overthrow Justinian himself. Thirty thousand citizens died in a massacre inflicted by Justinian’s troops on a panic-stricken crowd trapped in the Hippodrome. Four days later, the huge roar of the firestorm that consumed the entire center of Constantinople still drowned every other noise.
Characteristically, Justinian used the destruction to go beyond his predecessors. The city’s main basilica was replaced by the stupendous new church of the Hagia Sophia, now known as the Aya Sofya of Istanbul, the Church of the Holy Wisdom.
Senedi İttifak (1808) was a kind of document in order to set balance and maintain relationships between the Sultan and nobles.
-Gülhane Hattı Humayunu/Tanzimat Fermanı (1839) was the first action taken in the way of constitutional steps. The document granted equal rights to muslims and minorities regarding honour, modesty, right to property
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