: 11 As applied to Ottoman Turkish-speakers, this term began to fall out of use at the end of the seventeenth century, and instead of the word increasingly became associated with the Greek population of the empire, a meaning that it still bears in Turkey today.: 51

Franklin's lost expedition was a failed British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and was assigned to traverse the last unnavigated sections of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic and to record magnetic data to help determine whether a better understanding could aid …

February 11, 1847 – Thomas Edison, American inventor, businessman; January 15, 1853 – Tom Ricketts, English actor, director; July 12, 1854 – George Eastman, American entrepreneur, founder of the Eastman Kodak Company, inventor of roll film; August 26, 1856 – Clara Schønfeld, Danish actress; February 14, 1859 – Justus Hagman, Swedish ...

Beren Saat (Turkish pronunciation: [beˈɾen saˈat]; born 26 February 1984) is a Turkish actress.Since the beginning of her career, she has received critical acclaim and numerous accolades for her acting. While studying at Başkent University, she participated in the acting competition Türkiye'nin Yıldızları and was discovered by Turkish director Tomris Giritlioğlu, …

With financial stability came new owners, when 20th Century-Fox was sold for $720 million on June 8, 1981, to investors Marc Rich and Marvin Davis. 20th Century-Fox's assets included Pebble Beach Golf Links, the Aspen Skiing Company and a Century City property upon which Davis built and twice sold Fox Plaza.. By 1984, Rich had become a fugitive from justice, having …

1950s. Only six people summited Mount Everest in the 1950s: Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on May 29, 1953 (1953 British Mount Everest expedition); Ernst Schmied and Jürg Marmet on May 23, 1956; Dolf Reist and Hans-Rudolf von Gunten on May 24, 1956; 1960s. In total, 18 people summited in the 1960s. These are some of the ascents:

Michael VIII Palaiologos or Palaeologus (Greek: Μιχαὴλ Δούκας Ἄγγελος Κομνηνὸς Παλαιολόγος, romanized: Mikhaēl Doukas Angelos Komnēnos Palaiologos; 1224 – 11 December 1282) reigned as the co-emperor of the Empire of Nicaea from 1259 to 1261, and as Byzantine emperor from 1261 until his death. Michael VIII was the founder of the Palaiologan dynasty ...

I. Dünya Savaşı, 28 Temmuz 1914 tarihinde başlayıp 11 Kasım 1918 tarihinde sona eren Avrupa merkezli küresel bir savaştır. II. Dünya Savaşı'na (1939-1945) kadar Dünya Savaşı veya Büyük Savaş olarak adlandırılmıştır. Savaşın taraflarından biri olan Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda "Genel Savaş" anlamında Harb-i Umumi (Osmanlıca: حرب عمومی), halk arasında ise ...

Mihrimah Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: مهرماه سلطان, "sun and moon" or "light of the moon", Turkish pronunciation: [mihɾiˈmah suɫˈtan]; 1522 – 25 January 1578) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Ottoman Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent and his wife, Hürrem Sultan.She was the most powerful imperial princess in Ottoman history and a prominent figure in the Sultanate of …

Muhteşem Yüzyıl, ou « Le Siècle magnifique » en français, est une série télévisée turque créée par Meral Okay et produite par Timur Savcı.Diffusée du 5 janvier 2011 au 11 juin 2014 sur la chaîne de télévision turque Show TV, elle est depuis diffusée chaque semaine, en première partie de soirée, sur la chaîne Star TV.La série compte quatre saisons.