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...intent of the plot, too, seems close to Pirandello. Galy Gay, the hero and victim, is an Irish dockworker in India (Itself another Kiplingesque amalgam: the time of the play is 1925, but Victoria has not yet relinquished the throne of England). So passive a character is Gay that the three soldiers can erase his individuality altogether--originally weak and insignificant, and a pacifist, he is made to join their machine gun unit to replace a man whose absence would expose the soldiers as temple robbers. Given the missing man's identification card, he becomes a ferocious super-hero...
Your article claims the Peacock Throne to have been taken from the Persians by the Turks in 1514, and brought to Istanbul. In 1514, that famous throne did not even exist. The Peacock Throne was installed by Shah Jahan, Mogul Emperor of Taj Mahal fame, at Delhi. It was carried off by the Persian invader Nadir Shah in 1739, and now stands in the Gulistan Palace, a museum in Teheran, Iran...
...original Peacock Throne of Iran taken from Delhi by Nadir Shah in 1739 has disappeared. The Peacock throne now in the Gulistan Palace, Teheran (see cut) was built in the early loth century by an Isfahan jeweler for Path Ali Shah and was originally called the Sun Throne. There is another throne in the Istanbul museum which is referred to as a Peacock throne...
Today that throne is housed in the Topkapi Sarayi Museum of Istanbul, one of hundreds of treasures that the avaricious sultans of Turkey accumulated over nearly six centuries. Though regularly seen by tourists, the treasures have rarely been photographed (see color...
...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...