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2011-11-30 The Grand Turk
Libyan gunman wounds two, gets killed at Topkapi Palace
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Posted by ryuge 2011-11-30 07:17|| || Front Page|| [3 views ]  Top

#1 Turkish security forces today killed a Libyan gunman who shot and wounded two people with a pump-action rifle in the courtyard of Topkapi Palace in Istanbul.

What?! No Miranda rights? No trial in a civilian court with the rights of a full citizen? Barbarians!

And I'm worried about the dim view these people have for us. I must go bow to them.
Posted by gorb 2011-11-30 11:39||   2011-11-30 11:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Topkapi (1964).
Posted by Anonymoose 2011-11-30 19:40||   2011-11-30 19:40|| Front Page Top

#3 I spent most of an afternoon next door to the palace at the Turkish Archaeological Museum. Didn't get to see the palace, but if the Turks ever wise up and pitch the Islamists, I think it's a wonderful experience for anyone with interest in history.

Their collection doesn't cover the entire globe, like the British Museum's, but "only" the area of the Ottoman Empire. Even so, you've got tiles from the walls of Babylon, one of Alexander's Successor's sarcophagus, half a dozen sarcophagi of Byzantine emperors, a 10' high statue of the Egyptian god Bes, loads of Roman-era statues, an entire floor dedicated to the site of Troy, and even part of the chain that sealed the Golden Horn from the Muslim fleets.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2011-11-30 20:29||   2011-11-30 20:29|| Front Page Top

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