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3 Liberties Leading the People | Delacroix, Izer, Gezi
Mavi Boncuk |İnkılap Yolunda (On the Road to Revolution), Zeki Faik İzer[1], 1933, MSGSÜ Painting Sculpture Collection and Liberty Leading the People (French: La Liberté guidant le peuple) Eugene...
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Book | Alaturka: Style in Turkish Music (1923–1938)
Alaturka: Style in Turkish Music is the first in-depth study of a musical artist during the early-Republican period. Bridging the divide between historical research and ethnographic inquiry, the...
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Twice Lucky in Montreal | The Long Way Home
Mavi Boncuk |Turkish director Alphan Eşeli's debut feature film “Eve Dönüş: Sarıkamış 1915” (The Long Way Home) has brought back two major awards from Canada's Festival des Films du Monde (Montreal...
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Venice Award | Houses with Small Windows
Mavi Boncuk |70th Venice International Film Festival | Director: Alberto Barbera 28th August > 7th September 2013 EUROPEAN SHORT FILM 2013 - EFA AWARD to: HOUSES WITH SMALL WINDOWS by Bülent Öztürk...
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British Ambassador and The Sultan's Organ
Mavi Boncuk |Sir [1]Henry Lello was an English diplomat, warden of the Fleet Prison, and Keeper of the Palace of Westminster.Lello went to Constantinople as an attache to the English Embassy to the...
View ArticleBook | Stewig, Reinhard: Byzantium - Constantinople - Istanbul 1964
Almost 50 years ago Reinhard Stewig published Byzantium-Constantinople-Istanbul.[1]Mavi Boncuk | ".... the Anatolian and Balkan Peninsula - have enabled the natural courses of the Bosporus to establish...
View ArticleMavi Boncuk Mirrors
Two million hits must mean something. (as of September 2013) Mavi Boncuk now has Mirrors in UK, Germany, Greece and France, based on readership. After top ranking Google originating search access...
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Medicinal plants of Turkey | Alıç
Mavi Boncuk | TR Alıç, Akdiken, Yemisen. Adi alıç (Crataegus monogyna), gülgiller (Rosaceae) [1]EN Hawthorn: a thorny shrub or tree of the rose family, with white, pink, or red blossoms and small dark...
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Profile | Pierre Belon (1517-1564)
The earliest source of the botany of Asia Minor and Balkans.Mavi Boncuk |Pierre Belon, 1517-1564, born in Le Mans, doctor, surgeon, and zoologist, served as French ambassador to the Orient in 1536....
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A Gift Horse from MAM | Istanbul's Historic Peninsula
It took me 39 years to upload a map that I worked on, beginning in 1974. 2 days years ago meticulously inking the roads and a few hours today , scanning the large original, digitally cleaning and...
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Wooden houses in Istanbul
"The tradition of timber houses stems from the great earthquake of 1509. Timber houses were quick to construct and are at less risk of collapse during earthquakes. The great danger came from fire — not...
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Major Fires in Historic Peninsula 1901-1923
Mavi Boncuk | Pictured 1918 Cibali fire.[1]YEAR Location | Houses destroyed1901 Eğrikapı, 901901 Yedikule, 511907 Yedikule, 601908 Çırçır 15001908 Yedikule, 2071911 Mercan, 1731911 Aksaray, 24001911...
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Grid Iron Istanbul
With architects trained with this insensitivity how can we blame the urban disasters of Istanbul.Mavi Boncuk |
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Golden Orange Competition Films Announced
10 Films Announced for 50th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival.Mavi Boncuk | A jury headed by Türkan Şoray, directors Çelik, Ümit Ünal, composer Eleni Karaindrou, producer Şükrü Avşar, actor Mahir...
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Fire Disasters in Historic Peninsula
Mavi Boncuk |Over the centuries Istanbul has been the scene of devastating fires. Wood was the cheapest material and readily available along the Black Sea. It wasn’t until the end of the 19th century...
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All the Chairmen of Fenerbahce
Aziz Yıldırım chairmanship will be the longest in Fenerbahce history after Şükrü Saracoğlu.Aziz Yıldırım (born November 2, 1952 in Ergani, Diyarbakır Province) is elected for a new term as the chairman...
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Trade Card | Turkish Girl
Mavi Boncuk |Turkish Girl,Wesenberg’s Coffee (Berlin) The Home of Flowers 1-6, 1900.Trade cards are defined as cards and (larger) stamps (hard paper, cardboard, silk) issued by non-tobacco companies...
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The Network of Sarp Kuray
Mavi Boncuk | Istanbul 9th High Criminal Court sentenced Sarp Kuray to life sentence again. Jailed in Sincan High Security Prison, Kuray has applied to ECHR which ruled a re-trial due to lack of fair...
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Frances Elliot (1820 – 1898)
Mavi Boncuk |Frances Elliot [1]– (1820 – 1898)British traveller and diaristBorn Frances Minto, she was married twice and travelled extensively throughout Spain, Italy and the Turkish provinces in the...
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