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12-24-2007, 08:46 AM
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I begin with a little known story retrieved from the archives, that sheds some intriguing light on a piece of long-buried Elizabethan history. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7155903.stm) In the Beyazit Devlet Library in Istanbul is a document in Turkish, which contains an account of an exchange of gifts between the rulers of England and the Ottoman Empire in the 1590s. . . .
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I begin with a little known story retrieved from the archives, that sheds some intriguing light on a piece of long-buried Elizabethan history. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7155903.stm) In the Beyazit Devlet Library in Istanbul is a document in Turkish, which contains an account of an exchange of gifts between the rulers of England and the Ottoman Empire in the 1590s. . . .
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