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#Blogger #Cinema #Books Why do I read books and watch cinema? Because social reality doesn't come like topaz crystals. It is well hidden in the camouflage of culture, taboo, religion, laws, and the maze of daily life.
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happy bday German writer 1890 – Klabund (Alfred Henschke) b.1890.

"Flames catch fire across the land.
Couriers ride all through the night.
Draped in the colours, drunk with dreams of killing, as if on a hunt.
The yellow sandstorms whirl amid the fighting."
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OTD in 1853 the Battle of Oltenita was fought. 1st of Crimea war. Russian troops crossed into European Turkey to "protect orthodox Christians" as excuse to try to capture Constantinople. Lost 20 times as many as the enemy in 1st engagement of a war we'd lose.

It's a tradition.
I write from a novice student POV of geopolitics just because love of it. If you have read his work, it's amazing 🤩

- Dalrymple is one of the finest historian working on South Asian History.