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What are you rushing for, Arethusa?' Alpheus called from the waves. 'Why are you rushing?' He called again to me, in a strident voice.   Ovid, Metamorphoses, V, vv. 600-1 Akdeniz, XVIth century a. D. "Look at what we have here…"   Sadiq couldn't believe his eyes when, that morning, he spotted a lone Italian wandering in the countryside with no Spaniard or soldiers to guard him. Abducting that brat had been relatively easy, what was more difficult was trying to make him silent, because the little monster started shouting and cursing, leading the Turk to order Romano to be gagged in order to spare his poor ears from that terrible nois

"Constantinople will definitely be conquered one day. What a nice commandment is the commandment that conquers it, what nice soldiers are the soldiers that conquers it."(Hadith of Prophet Muhammad) Konstantinoupolis, anno Domini 1453. That year Easter was celebrated quietly, nothing compared to the past, when joyous citizens commemorated Christ's victory against death. Now there was nothing to celebrate, the already moribund Eastern Empire standing on the verge of collapse. Turks invaded most of the territories that once were part of the empire, and now only Konstantinoupolis and a bunch of cities were resisting their offence. Despite the p