Celestial Etymology
As a recent discourse happily brought us to matters of the firmament, it seems a…
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Under the Sky of Tengri
In one of the halls of the A. Kasteyev State Museum of Arts in Almaty,…
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The Secrets of the Powder Box
In the Museum of Almaty, amidst a display dedicated to the city in the latter…
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The Twenty-Two Letters That Changed the World
As promised, the particulars of the Phoenician alphabet. It had twenty-two letters. They wrote from…
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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…
