Patricia Taylor
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"Your power, which is already very great, you can increase more by peace than by war. For the outcome of war is uncertain - more often you see adversity rather than prosperity accompany it." - Candar Li Halil Pasha The Younger Candarli Halil Pasha the younger, the eleventh Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Sultanate and perhaps one of the most influential Grand Viziers in the early stage of the country. Born from a ilmiye political family with his father and uncles serving as supreme roles in the government…-
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"Call no man happy till he is dead." - Aeschylus Now it is the time for Candarli Halil Pasha to go. Things were alright initially when the Grand Vizier returned to his estate as if nothing has happened to him. Just like a normal person, energetic like before totally unlike a man of his age waking up earlier than others, then handle state and court affairs until the sun sets. The bruise on his head is also showing signs of healing with the bleeding stopping in a few hours, and by the next day only a…
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Slowly time passed and the confrontation continued, the dusk has arrived as a promise of the day with the light of the stars slowly over taking the light of the sun. Bit by bit the sparks of pearls of the night began decorating the pure dark colored velvet making it as cushioned as a piece of silk from Damascus. Every one knows that when the last traces of the sun kisses the mother land, and when the water of the Mediterranean sea blends in to the darkness of the night, it is the time to call it for the…
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"Honourable Grand Vizier!" The merchant kneeled to explain for himself. "I am not a Rumelian! I am a humble subject of the majestic Sultan who was forced to flee following the wicked Rumelians expanding their reach of paws in to the Sultan's lands…" These words made even a few more veins popping up on the hands and face of the Grand Vizier. "Besides! Honourable Grand Vizier! I am selling my stocks in a relatively cheaper price only because I, by the grace of the Mighty Allah, am born with the heart of…
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"The path you walk on has no end. No matter how far you go, or how many corpses you crawl over, the killing will never end. It's a future without hope. Hear me Snake! My spirit will be watching you..." - Metal Gear Solid, Hideo Kojima "My Sultan." Before the Grand Vizier left he got some words for Beyezid II. "I sincerely hope that by the next time I see you, you shall be putting in more efforts in fields of academic studies like what your father was doing at your age, instead of throwing your time on to…
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"Et tu Brute?" - Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare The Palace of Edirne, or Edirne Sarayı, is located in the most northern part of the city. It is fully fortified with walls and watch towers with the entire compound is designed in an irregular rectangle shape being divided in to a series of court yards, minor rooms, and also the two most important building of all – One is the haram obviously which probably every single man knows about it, and the other one is the imperial kitchen. These two buildings…
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"Alright, so now we only got two choices, North wards? Or West wards." Back in the room Antonius started consulting his good old friend again. "What do you think?" "I would say there are advantages in both directions." Abdullah responded after thinking for a while. "But for you, my friend, I recommend you to go north first, then go west… I trust that you can deal with the foes in Thrace with no difficulty, am I right?" Antonius chuckled and nodded his head. "Aye, you can count on me… Alright, we…
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"There is no such thing, strictly speaking, as social science; there is only economic science, which studies the natural organism of society and shows how this organism functions." - Gustave de Molinari, Belgian political economist "That is all what I can summarise for my time spent in Anatolia for now." Said Abdullah as he frowns walking down the path of the busy harbour back in to the city of Thessaloniki through the Gate of Julian, renamed to supposedly commemorate the captain Julian who charged head…
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"Kick it! Kick it harder! Heh what are you doing!" "Ah, comon! I betted my lunch money for this!" "Run! Run! Run don't let him get a chance to get you number thirteen!" "Don't stop! Yes don't stop! Bypass him! Block him! Yes that's the way man!" "Oh, Holy Santa Maria what is this! What is the Datori indietro and Datori innanzi doing! Do they have eyes?" In a crowed corner from the port of Constantine in Thessaloniki a game of harpustum, a ball game is going on between two groups of sailors. The…
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"When shall we three meets again In thunder, lightning, or in rain?" - Macbeth, William Shakespeare In a newly renovated strategic meeting room inside the government house, every major commander under Antonius is gathered around here just before dawn looking at the gigantic map laying in front of them, which Julian is pointing at with a wooden twig he found in the court yard. The map, or more precisely speaking a table filled with sand and rocks symbolizing the various mountainous regions in the Greece…
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