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So let me get this straight.
The bloke who built Mehmet’s enormous cannon with which in 1453 he breached the walls of Constantinople bringing to an end more than 1,100 years of Christian civilisation..

..was a Hungarian named Orbán.

The Israelis don’t come out of this too well. Then again neither do the Turks nor the Lebanese.

‘It is impossible to understand the San Domingo revolution unless it is studied in close relationship with the revolution in France.’ Appendix p. 331

p 171 ‘And then it really took a woman’s nerves for anyone to evaluate an uncommitted infidelity as something that had actually happened. Jesus was amazing when he said that whoever looked at his fellow man’s wife had already committed sin.’