PROMO FOR THE CITY OF ISTANBUL
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Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
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I am a blade made of steel and fire. Once it was only in Damascus that such steel could be forged. Then in Toledo, in Spain now victory in battle and the rewards of conquest belonged to the Ottomans. We'll call the skills of the swordsmith to their empire. The Ottomans are swift to adopt new tactics and new technology. They learn fast. Did they not cast the biggest cannon for the conquest of Constantinople? But I was made as the finest. Blades are always made of bright steals of different strengths. Folded on, re folded and blended into one one steel for the fine edge one steel for the corps and one steel for the body of the weapon. So finally work together that they become a single piece balanced to the hand capable of cutting through steel. Dangerous. And I, his son, am Solomon the Lawgiver, the magnificent I to patrol the borders. I have brought my armies across the Mediterranean to Rhodes. I marched along the Danube to Buddha. I have lunged at Vienna. Meanwhile, I write to the lesser kings to Francois Frantz onto Ferdinand. I am Asman, a prince, a Turkish Amir. But I'm also a man in love. I can win battles, towns, castles and the friendship of princes. But not the hand of the woman I love. Um Al Hearten, As lovely as the moon and as distant to me Mal Hearten is the daughter of my friend and adviser Shake a tamale who lives among us Turks on Greeks who inhabit this region of Anatolia by the sea. It is a border land a place for fighters on Holy Man like the Sheikh himself. I had a rival for Manhattan. I spoke too much off her beauty on the chief of Eskisehir plotted against me. He tried to trap me in the castle of a friend. But our lead an attack surprised him and drove him away in shame. But still the sheikh rejected my suit. One night in his house, I laid down as a guest full of sorrow and confusion. I slept but my eyes opened. I saw the Sheikh asleep, but from his breast arose a moon which floated between us and then sank towards me and disappeared. And where the moon had bean there was a tree which sent its branches wider and wider and its trunk grew thicker, and beneath the tree stood the four great mountains of the world, and I saw from its roots poor, great rivers gushing forth. And they were the four great rivers of the world the Tigris and the Euphrates, the Danube in Europe, On the Nile, in Egypt, ships floated on the water. Men and women drew the rich harvest from the fields on the mountain. Slopes were clothed, and forests and streams burst through the glades, weaving between the Cyprus and the roses. On there were beautiful cities in the valleys, and from that domes and minarets, I heard them wears and school mingled with the sweet singing off nightingales and the chatter of parrots and all the birds of the air was singing and fluttering through the leaves of the sacred tree, whose leaves were like pointed scimitars. A wind arose and the leaves all turned and pointed like sharp swords. At one city Constantinople, it sparkles like a diamond amongst jewels like a gem upon a ring, and I was about to slip the ring upon my finger. When I woke up, I woke up and I told Chic at a body. My dream in this, he said. There is honour and glory and your Children on the Children off my daughter. So Manhattan and I were wed and the dream foretold the greatness of our house, the House of Osman.