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The Turkish series on the 16th-century Ottoman monarch Suleiman the Magnificent ... of the Young Turks” linger on in the memory from the final years of the Ottoman Empire, before its collapse in the ...

There were 13 Leos before him: The first, Leo the Great, was a fifth-century theologian who helped heal the doctrinal divisions among early Christians; Leo X, a member of the powerful Medici family, ...

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Municipal elections were far different in the Spanish colonial period. In 1985, the late Glenn Anthony May, a historian of the Philippines, teased the civic ritual from 19th-century archival documents ...

It is open to the public and anchored by five 19th-century Urhobo wood carvings of warriors and royalty, one of which belongs to Lindemann’s private collection. The dealer Bernard de Grunne ...