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Hürrem Sultan (Turkish: [hyɾˈɾæm suɫˈtan]; Ottoman Turkish: خرّم سلطان, "the joyful one"; c. 1504 – 15 April 1558), also known as Roxelana (Ukrainian: Роксолана, romanized: Roksolana), was the chief consort, the first Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the legal wife of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, and the mother of Suleiman's successor Selim II.
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The British-trained barrister, 40, is one of Bangladesh's so-called "disappeared". These were critics of Sheikh Hasina, the country's prime minister of more than 20 years, in two terms, until she ...
The mummy of King Thutmose II, who ruled during the Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, is seen on display in a file photo provided by the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization.
The firman of 1857 did not ban slavery as such, nor did it ban slave trade: it merely banned the import of new slaves from foreign landa across the borders to the Ottoman Empire. Later, slave trafficking was prohibited in practice by enforcing specific conditions of slavery in sharia, Islamic law, even though sharia permitted slavery in ...
In April 2013, the Iranian news agency Fars carried a story claiming a 27-year-old Iranian scientist had invented a time machine that allowed people to see into the future. A few days later, the story was removed, and replaced with a story quoting an Iranian government official that no such device had been registered. [40] [41] [42]
Others attribute the triangle's supposed vortex to a prehistoric structure under Lake Michigan discovered by archaeologists in 2007. The site is often referred to as the "North American Stonehenge." [8] Others believe the occurrences in the Lake Michigan Triangle are caused by aliens, pointing to UFO sightings as evidence. [8]
A diving team in North Carolina recently discovered the remains of a woman who went missing more than a year ago, authorities said. The woman, 33-year-old mother Dana Leigh Mustian, disappeared in ...