Hopefully for the better. But here's to five and more years more of me on this site, with you wonderful people!
*raises glass of champagne*


ToB - City of Learning IIThe 1650's and 1660's were golden years in Imperial history. With her borders finally secured against foreign aggressors, the Empire was free to turn inwards and spend her energies freely on her own development. The result was a blossoming of arts, science and the economy in a most dramatic fashion.ToB - City of Learning II
As the capital, Constantinople saw much of this money - though this was the first real cultural revolution in Byzantine history which saw other cities rise in prominence. Smyrna, Thessalonika, Athens, Iconium and Amorium all saw rapid growths in wealth and cultural power in this period, but the capital remained the epicentre of the Em


ToB - The Aleppo War IThe Chronicle of Antioch picks up the story:ToB - The Aleppo War I
"And on the fifth day before the Ides of June in the year of our Lord 1629, His Most Imperial Highness Ioannes X came to the Cathedral of St Peter and gave thanks before the Lord and the people of the city. Thence strengthened and blessed, he set out from the city to join his army encamped to the East, and marched upon the ramparts of Aleppo ... where he arrived not more than a week later, moving with terrifying speeds."
John had few illusions. He had spent most of his reign thus far avoiding war with foreign powers - not just because it would embolden the nobility, but be


Andronicus - FatherWhat was my father like? Youve come to the wrong man to ask that, Im afraid.Andronicus - Father
But youre a curious fellow, and I can see you mean no offense, so I shall try to tell you what I can of that man.
Theodore IV was a man possessed of prodigious talents of the intellectual nature, that much we are all to be clear on from the start. People who tell me that I am intellectually potent should revisit the texts of my father and then form an opinion. He bestrode the world of political theory like a great colossus, that man. His books are still the word of law for hundreds of scholars the world over, and especiall
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Colonel Mertz von Quirnheim: Any problem on Earth can be solved with the careful application of high explosives.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free. ~ Clarence Darrow
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Human beings can always be relied on to assert, with vigor, their given right to be stupid.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free. ~ Clarence Darrow
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Human beings can always be relied on to assert, with vigor, their given right to be stupid.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free. ~ Clarence Darrow
*hides*
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free. ~ Clarence Darrow
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Horrible minds think alike too.
Lost your heart? Find a home at *Org-infinity
please be safe >w<
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"You know what they say about Women...
Women are like spatulas...
Good for flipping things... but...not so good for grating cheese.."
~Alex- Fries With That?~
"OBVIOUSLY it's satan..."
Collamair about the Pope
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