Something About Turkish Earthquake Damages

Lost, vaded, broken, dead within an hour.

Something About the Obelisk of Theodosius

Oh, pointy pointy.

Something About the Ottoman Parties

Turkish delights.

Something About the Yedikule Hisarı

Seven days in its dungeon makes one weak.

Something About the Aydos Kalesi

The old stone fort, it ain't what it used to be....

Something About the Missorium of Theodosius

The old dogged tray.

Something About the Serpentine Column

Are three heads better than two?

Something About the Basilica Cistern

Subterranean home sunk blues.

Something About Hagia Irene

Irene, I'll get you in my dreams.

Where's There: Hagia Sophia

Mother Ximenes' Handbook for Grade School Nuns features a section on things Catholic students should know, one fact of which is that a priest is living in the walls of Hagia Sophia Church in Istanbul, Turkey (Saint Fidgeta and Other Parodies; 107).

Where’s There: Hellespont

Standing in Leander’s Tower in 1453, Professor Childermass says that the tower “stands on a tiny spit of land in the Hellespont, the narrow body of water that runs between the Black Sea, which north of here, and the Sea of Marmara, which is below us [The Trolley to Yesterday; 28].

Time Capsule: 1453

May 29, 1453 - Bust out your copy of The Trolley to Yesterday and read along as the Byzantines and their city of Constantinople fall to the Ottoman Turks - 553 years ago today!