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Tea Service689 views17 pieces, in a velvet-lined case.
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Ceremonial Hall Chandelier689 viewsThis is supposedly the world's largest Bohemian crystal chandelier, with 750 lamps and a weight of four and a half tons. It isn't lit up because only a Sultan could afford the electric bill.
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A marvel of colorful light689 viewsThe chandelier came as a kit, but no little skill was required to assemble the pieces and hang the completed menagerie safely.
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Cumbres & Toltec RR, Oct. 7, 2022689 viewsCumbres & Toltec RR, Oct. 7, 2022
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Cumbres & Toltec RR, Oct. 7, 2022689 viewsCumbres & Toltec RR, Oct. 7, 2022
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Dallas, October 2022689 viewsDallas, October 2022
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NGC 6946 - Fireworks Galaxy and Friends688 viewsAn alternate view of the Fireworks Galaxy featuring a neighbor, the open star cluster NGC 6939, near the lower edge of the image.
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No Picnicking688 viewsPicnics were decidedly frowned on in Hierapolis. I'm glad they printed the sign in English, because Turkish, being a non-Indo-European language, is tough to figure out. I might have thought it meant something like "Official Picnic Area."
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Stoa688 viewsA covered walkway called a stoa surrounded the central courtyard and shops of the Agora.
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Minarets of the Blue Mosque688 viewsThe Blue Mosque has six minarets, not all of which are seen in this picture. It caused an uproar among the Islamic ulama (Muslim jurists), who were scandalized that it had as many minarets as the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Sultan Ahmed assuaged their ire by causing a seventh minaret to be built for the Grand Mosque.
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Kuleli Military High School688 viewsThe oldest military high school in Turkey, founded in 1845 by Sultan Abdülmecid I.
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Mihrimah Sultan Mosque688 views16th-century mosque in the Üsküdar district of Istanbul, on the Asian side. The older and smaller of two Istanbul mosques commissioned by Mihrimah, daughter of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent; the other is on the European side, in the Fatih district.
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