Three Garments and Half a Million Men
Somewhere in your wardrobe there is a war. The cardigan is named after the seventh…
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A Boy’s Own Summer at Erzurum
Having stepped aside for Kutuzov’s excursion from our survey of the Russo-Turkish wars — from…
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La La… Pasha
Since we are on the subject of the Ottomans in Erzurum, it would be remiss…
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Abdallah, the Carpet, and the Cross
Two centuries back, then. In the eighth century the frontier town of Erzurum—Theodosiopolis, as it…
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The Grammar of Delegation
The mutual influence of language, habits of thought and culture is a much-discussed business. Which…
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Omit Needless Words?
Somebody wrote please RSVP to me the other day, and it occurred to me that…
