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Sunday, April 26, 2009

PIRACY IN SOMALIA – FROM GABINIAN TO UN LAW

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The word piracy comes to us from the Latin pirata , which has its own root in the Greek word for attack, peirao . Until the recent prominenc...

The Simurgh and the Nightingale (Part 17)

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Ergi Kapi - The Crooked Gate Chapter 30   Constantinople.  11th November 1637 It had become almost a ritual for Catherine, after returning f...
Wednesday, April 15, 2009

The Simurgh and the Nightingale (Part 16)

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Chapter 28  Palais Cardinalle, Paris.  7th July 1637 The far corner of the room was dark for the evening light filtering through the tall wi...
Saturday, April 11, 2009

The Simurgh and the Nightingale (Part 15)

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Chapter 26  Constantinople.  April 10th 1637 Catherine was annoyed by the summons to the reception rooms at the far end of the hospital but ...
Thursday, April 02, 2009

Rihla (Journey 4): Alamut – A Valley of Beauty and Death

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Rihla (The Journey) – was the short title of a 14th Century (1355) book written in Fez by the Islamic legal scholar Ibn Jazayy al-Kalbi of...
Sunday, March 29, 2009

The Simurgh and the Nightingale (Part 14)

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Chapter 24  Venice. 10th December 1634 The night was unusually mild for early December and the breeze coming through some of the half-open w...
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Roger Derham
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A. Prof Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Forensic Physician (retd.), author, ex-publisher and journeyman.
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