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The Vampire Was Right
Ad Orientem ^ | 05-29-2012 | Ad Orientem

Posted on 05/29/2016 1:16:30 PM PDT by NRx

There is a great scene in the novel "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova where the famed vampire Dracula (Vlad III of Wallachia) is ruminating on the Fall of Constantinople which occurred today in 1453 (OS). He refers to it as the worst day in the history of the world. He was right.



TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: islam; jihad

1 posted on 05/29/2016 1:16:30 PM PDT by NRx
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To: Kolokotronis

Ping


2 posted on 05/29/2016 1:17:20 PM PDT by NRx
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To: NRx

3 posted on 05/29/2016 1:20:41 PM PDT by xp38
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To: NRx

bookmark


4 posted on 05/29/2016 1:37:55 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: NRx

A very bad day in history indeed. Divisions in the Body of Christ have real consequences.


5 posted on 05/29/2016 1:40:49 PM PDT by Shark24 (.)
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To: xp38

Jugular wine.


6 posted on 05/29/2016 1:43:25 PM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: Shark24

Ridiculous! Our division is our strength. We come together when forced to, but resist apostates like the current Pope Francis.


7 posted on 05/29/2016 2:23:34 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: xp38

Muslims call us “blood drinkers” because of communion. They are the ones thirsty for blood


8 posted on 05/29/2016 2:26:12 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: NRx

It was a Tuesday, a day still seen as cursed by Greeks. When I was little we were told the story of how our ancestors died on the walls of The City with the God Ordained Emperor, Constantine XI Paleologos and of the final Liturgy at Agia Sophia when the women and children were raped by the Mohammedan Turks and dragged off into slavery and the old people put to the sword. It is a horror we will never forget and which we have passed on to our children.


9 posted on 05/29/2016 2:45:43 PM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen and you, O death, are annihilated!)
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To: NRx

I might be wrong but didn’t Donald say something about them giving this back?


10 posted on 05/29/2016 4:15:24 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: NRx

From a geopolitical standpoint, a more significant date to mark is 1071, the battle of Manzikert, which opened Anatolia to the Turks.

By 1453, the Turks had already conquered most of the Balkans, and the Eastern Roman Empire was but a tiny remnant of its former self.


11 posted on 05/30/2016 8:34:52 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Jan_Sobieski
Muslims call us “blood drinkers” because of communion.

This is what is done in public. It isn't hard to imagine what is done in private.

Hint, the vial is half-empty.


12 posted on 05/30/2016 11:01:17 PM PDT by Mr. M.J.B.
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