John E Marks·4d agoThe speech of angels“Without music, life would be a mistake” ― Friedrich NietzscheA response icon3A response icon3
InScritturabyJohn E Marks·Nov 3THE CONQUEST of the WEST 1453From its inception, Islam was not merely a religion, but also a political community, the nation of Islam (ummat al-Islam).A response icon1A response icon1
John E Marks·Jul 28The last ByzantineBetween 1915–1922 more than 3.5 million Greeks, Armenians, and Assyrian Christians were murdered by the Turks so that now 99.8% of the…
Ha·Jul 6The Walls That Couldn’t Stop an Idea: What Constantinople Taught Me About Breaking ThroughHistory books often describe Constantinople as the “City of the World’s Desire.” For over a thousand years, it stood as the ultimate…
Keanu Dasha Harison·Jul 1Book Review — Roger Crowley’s “1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the…I often say that 1453 was the West’s greatest defeat — and its most revealing. Roger Crowley’s 1453 lays it bare, the fall of…
Luke Sharp·Jun 17The City That Broke the Horizon: What the Vikings Found in MiklagardForget the simple raiding narrative. When the Norse entered Constantinople, their entire measurement of human power became obsolete in a…
Roman Repin·Jun 15Как я сдал КонстантинопольВесна 1453-го тянулась, как гнойная рана, которую никто не собирался лечить. Константинополь, который ещё никто не называл Стамбулом, вонял…
InCatharsis ChroniclesbyJohn E Marks·May 11ACT of SUBMISSIONProphet Muhammad taught his Companions (Sahaba) that conquest could occur both through war and through preaching the message of the faithA response icon1A response icon1
Macule·Apr 5The Self-Eliminating Mechanism Designer: A Note on Why Your Builders Keep Breaking Your SystemsThe Maculate | Contributor Dispatch, TRAPPIST-1e Relay, 39.46 ly
Oleh Cheslavskyi·Jan 13Russian Intelligence Calls Ecumenical Patriarch “Antichrist”: Continuation of Kremlin’s Information…SVR published an official statement that the head of the Constantinople Patriarchate is “the devil incarnate.” Thus SVR declared war on…
