kardiakatakeo replied to your post: Ok never mind, forget what I just said. I won’t…
Are you ok my dear????not at all, someone reposted my photo manipulation without my permission (this not the problem) and this someone stupid enough to reposted it on the artist official FB (now this is the problem) there’s my deviant art name on it, now everyone on that damned fandom would hate me T___T
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(Oscar extends her hand to Madame Dubarry)
Dubarry (later, to Oscar): No need for pity.
Oh, but they do have Oscar feel sorry for her. She even stops the guards from beating her for being a “woman of the lowest kind” and escort her out so she doesn’t get attacked. I’m pleased with this, I don’t think it was in the manga. It shows that at least Oscar gets that even if Du Barry is terrible, this whole system and what’s happening to her is pretty screwed up.
Cardcaptor in Alice in Wonderland.
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March 29, 1453: Constantinople (and the Byzantine Empire) falls to the Ottoman Empire.
The Byzantine Empire outlasted its Western counterpart by nearly a millennium, and it was taken only thrice between its founding and fall - twice in the 13th century, and for the third and last time in 1453 to the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II.
The Ottomans lay siege to the city for over fifty days with a force of probably 80,000 soldiers (to Constantinople’s 7,000-strong army). The final assault began on May 26, and Constantinople’s famous walls - walls that had repelled attacks by the Rus’, the Persians, the Arabs, and even the Ottomans themselves decades earlier - were finally breached by Mehmed’s cannons. Emperor Constantine XI, who fought with his defenders to the last, is said to have either died in combat or hanged himself as Mehmed’s men approached.
The capture of Constantinople was not only important strategically but symbolically as well. Justinian and Theodora’s great Orthodox basilica the Hagia Sofia was thereafter transformed into a mosque, though locals were allowed to keep their own religions. Although some attempts were made by Christian leaders like Pope Pius II, who lamented that with the capture of Constantinople “Homer and Plato have died a second death”, to take the city back, most were backed by nothing more than words. The Pope might have been pleased to know, however, that the scholars who subsequently fled the city with their ancient Greek texts may have helped nourish the fledgling Renaissance.
