Patricia Taylor
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11
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"My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honour. I believe it is 'peace for our time'. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Go home and get a nice quiet sleep." - Neville Chamberlain, 30 September 1938, waving the Declaration of 'Peace' Antonius is now fully advised by the each and every one of his followers raising questions closer to the fields of their work, evading the possibility of them giving…-
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To surrender the city to the Ottomans or not, that is the main issue for the day. The most elite bunch of people under Antonius's led is probably all gathered here for this meeting, with all the master minds on different specialties and fields, and one must have expected that by gathering all of these specialists around they ought to be able to achieve all sorts of things discussing out a most efficient way of handling this crisis. However, the reality turned out to be that when these people are gathered…
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""Forward! Remember that from those monuments yonder forty centuries look down upon you." - Napoleon Bonaparte, Battle of the Pyramids All the various captains and courtiers took positions in the grand hall awaiting their admiral. They gathered in their smaller factions and groups, staring to discuss vigorously about the news about the preparing Ottoman devastation on to them. Separated in to different groups with different political ideas and views about this issue. Arguments and debates started…
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"Equo ne credite, Teucri Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentis" "Do not trust those horses called Trojans. Or what ever it is, I fear the Greeks even when they are offering gifts." - The Aeneid, Virgil Just as Antonius and Khalid drinks the alcohol and is having a little bit of break time soothing their tired bones and worn out muscles after a prolonged horse riding journey, the commander of that petite cavalry force with less than a hundred riders, Abraham ran in to the room grasping for air…
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"Grain shall return to the Earth, die there, and finally decompose for the new growth of another life to begin." - Egyptian Proverbs "No! Admiral! Do not shoot! It is no wild horse! It is an imported horse from Egyptus for the cavalries! Do not kill it! Why would you want to kill your own weapon admiral!" The man wept and cried kneeling in front of the horse carcass weeping and crying with tears dropping on to the soil that looks like it has condensed in to a deluge of rain droplets. The howling and…
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"And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war." - Book of Relevation, 19:11 – 21 King James Version But Alexios has not done yet, he looked at the sun in the distance guessing the time and turned back with the last bit of hope that the rider is coming back with the news. He tried to further persuade Antonius. "My lord, why don't we wait for a little longer? From my understanding on biology, that…
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With most of the cases solved the city of Thessaloniki returned to a vibrant state, thrived with new merchandise from other Christendom and Saracen states flooding in for they knows that they will all be treated fairly unlike the other ports held by the emperor of the Greeks or the Ottomans. With no high amount of absurd taxations like beard tax, weight tax, oil tax, food tax, window tax, hat tax, dirty sailor tax bluh bluh bluh, they can bring home much more revenue if they trade in Thessaloniki. Through…
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"Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law." - Aristotle The group of farmers went off thanking Antonius repeatedly getting the freedom, compensation and farm land, the land lord is put to prison relieved that he is not executed by the admiral, and the admiral himself acquired more love among the common folks. It can be said that at the end of the day, every one got want they wanted. Happy ending, happy ending. Helio and Fisnik cautiously approached Antonius. "Admiral!" Helio…
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What do you think a court should be like? One must have always imagined the court is a solemn place, with a grand judge on both the physical and moral high grounds over watching the people beneath him making the final judgement with that hammer of his. A group of serious looking juries at the sides providing legal advice and evidence and the lawyers on both sides engaging in vigorous verbal debate with each other professionally through the codex of laws, however, most of these are non existent in these…
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"Trabajadores de mi patria: Quiero agradecerles la lealtad que siempre tuvieron, la confianza que depositaron en un hombre, que sólo fue intérprete de grandes anhelos de justicia,' que empeñó su palabra en que respetaría la Constitución y la ley, y así lo hizo." - Salvador Allende, 11 Sept 1973 The street of Thessaloniki reminds Antonius so much of his old hole the city of Genoa, the endless view of dull white marble stone buildings that might have an even longer history than Antonius himself.…
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