Word: sultanic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SYED SULTAN ANWER...
...memento-strewn Manhattan apartment, Claire Ruth, widow of baseball's Sultan of Swat, pondered the growing possibility that the Babe's 1927 record of 60 homers in a single season may be beaten this year by Yankee Sluggers Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris. Said she: "I know they say records are made to be broken, but deep down in my heart I hope it doesn't happen." Even if Mantle or Maris should succeed, however, Mrs. Ruth saw consolations: "At least it will be a Yankee who did it. And everyone will remember Babe as the first...
...Magnificent & the Sot. The metals and jewels for the sultans' baubles usually came from abroad. Selim's only son, Suleiman the Magnificent, was probably responsible for a good part of the collection. Under him, the empire stretched to the Adriatic Sea and gobbled up Rhodes. Suleiman's admirals could pillage the Mediterranean, and it was thought proper for a grateful admiral to shower his sultan with gifts...
Suleiman himself was a sulky Sultan. He was rightly called The Lawgiver, but he beheaded grand viziers right and left, even had his two ablest sons murdered. The one remaining son eventually became Selim the Sot, the first of a long line of drunkards and degenerates that ruled until after World War I, when the sultanate fell and the great Mustapha Kemal Ataturk took over the rule of Turkey...
...retinue, until under Suleiman, it numbered more than 5,000. Attached to the imperial household, working in tiny studios scattered through the rambling palace grounds, were artisans and craftsmen whose job was to transform the raw plunder of war into objects that enhanced the glory of the sultan. The artisans also instructed the sultans' sons, for each young prince had to have at least one skill not connected with the throne. Suleiman was an expert jeweler; Abdul Hamid II was a fine woodworker; other sultans turned to calligraphy, enameling and miniatures...