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February 4, 2024

The Ottoman Empire’s Greatest Sultans The Lives and Legacies of Osman I, Mehmed II, and Suleiman the Magnificent [Audiobook]

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Free Download The Ottoman Empire’s Greatest Sultans: The Lives and Legacies of Osman I, Mehmed II, and Suleiman the Magnificent (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798868750816 | 2023 | 3 hours and 50 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 212 MB
Author: Charles River Editors
Narrator: Jim Walsh
In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as the 4th century, when Constantine the Great shifted the power center of the Roman Empire there, effectively establishing two almost equally powerful halves of antiquity’s greatest empire. Constantinople would continue to serve as the capital of the Byzantine Empire even after the Western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in the late 5th century. Naturally, the Ottoman Empire would also use Constantinople as the capital of its empire after their conquest effectively ended the Byzantine Empire, and thanks to its strategic location, it has been a trading center for years and remains one today under the Turkish name of Istanbul.

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February 2, 2024

Suburbanization of New York Is the World’s Greatest City Becoming Just Another Town

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Free Download Jerilou Hammett, "Suburbanization of New York: Is the World’s Greatest City Becoming Just Another Town?"
English | ISBN: 1568986785 | 2007 | 192 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The city that never sleeps also never stops changing. And while New Yorkers are renowned for theirtrendsetting, this thought-provoking book argues that New York City itself has become a follower rather than a leader. Once-distinctive streets and neighborhoods have become awash in generic stores, apartment boxes, and garish signs and billboards. Legendary neighborhoods (Little Italy, Hell’s Kitchen, Harlem, the Lower East Side) have been smoothed over with cute monikers, remade for real-estate investment and for sale to the highest bidder.

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January 25, 2024

Tanaka 1587 Japan’s Greatest Unknown Samurai Battle (From Retinue to Regiment)

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Free Download Stephen Turnbull, "Tanaka 1587: Japan’s Greatest Unknown Samurai Battle (From Retinue to Regiment)"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1912866498 | PDF (Scan) | pages: 128 | 56.6 mb
In 1587 the 1,000-strong garrison of tiny Tanaka Castle in Higo Province (modern Kumamoto Prefecture) on Japan’s southern island of Kyushu, held out for 100 days against an army ten times their size sent by the great general Toyotomi Hideyoshi. When the castle fell it was burned to the ground, and for four centuries the epic struggle lived on only through a handful of letters, two little-known war chronicles and in the folk memories of the local people who continued to make offerings on the now anonymous hillside to comfort the tormented spirits of Tanaka’s dead warriors.

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