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‘Vagabond Princess’ Review: Gulbadan’s Journey to the West
The Wall Street Journal· 2 months agoBOOKSHELF In 1576 the Mughal emperor Akbar accepted his Aunt Gulbadan’s proposal that she should...
Greek monastery manuscripts tell new story of Ottoman rule
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA church bell sounds, the staccato thudding of mallet on plank summons monks to afternoon prayers,...
Review: Orhan Pamuk's 'Nights of Plague' entangles an epidemic with a (fictional) revolution
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn 2012, Orhan Pamuk, Turkey’s only Nobel laureate in literature, opened his Museum of Innocence in a 19th century wooden house in Istanbul. A real museum of imaginary lives, it contains 1,000 ...
What a Mughal Princess Can Teach Us About Feminist History
Time via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThe cover art for Vagabond Princess by Ruby Lal; Gulbadan Begum smoking on a terrace Credit -...
Padmaavat Ending Explained & Spoilers: How Did Shahid Kapoor’s Movie End?
COMINGSOON.net via Yahoo News· 3 months agoPadmaavat is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language historical drama film directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali....
Padmaavat Streaming: Watch & Stream Online via Amazon Prime Video
COMINGSOON.net via Yahoo News· 2 months agoSanjay Leela Bhansali’s Padmaavat is an amalgamation of twisted amalgamation of megalomania,...
‘One of the Most Epic European TV Productions of All Time,’ ‘Rise of the Raven’ Gets First-Look...
Variety via Yahoo News· 2 months agoEuropean giant Beta Film, known for ambitious titles such as “Babylon Berlin” and “The Swarm,” has...
The Real-Life Lore Behind Dracula in History
SYFY via Yahoo News· 9 months agoEven more than a century after publication, the character of Count Dracula remains one of the most enduring ever created. Much like Dracula himself, the...
The Secret History of How Coffee Took Over the World
Cheapism via AOL· 2 years agoCan't get going without your morning coffee? The brew has a long, occasionally strange history — at one time, drinking it was even punishable by death.