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  • GRISELDA BLANCO The Cocaïne Queen

    by henrymoa ...
    GRISELDA BLANCO grew up in the suburbs of Medellin where she was turned into a prostitute at the age of 12 by her mother.At 18, she met her first husband, Carlos Trujillo, who gave her three children before throwing her out. She returned six years on the sidewalk before meeting the man who would change her life, Alberto Bravo. Together they emigrated to New York. In the American megalopolis, they ... Read more

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  • The Revolt of the Zanj

    by henrymoa ...
    Zanj were constrained African slaves to work with the clearing of the grounds in the south of Iraq. When they were raised, they were joined by the slaves of the cities and the close villages. They worked in vast groups, without receiving regular wages, and their daily feed ration was made up only of flour, dates and hulled grain. Their chief, named Alī ibn Drivenḥammad, was a man who became aware ... Read more

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  • The Empire of the Crowned Slaves

    by henrymoa ...
    Roukn al-Din Baybars was born in 1223 in a Turkish tribe Kipchak installed in the Ukrainian Plains. He was captured by Mongolians horsemen and sold to a Russian slave trafficker who takes him to the city of La Tana, Venetian traderpost installed on the edge of the River named Don. There, he is bought at the slave market by a Venetian merchant who takes him in Syria where he is sold to an emir for ... Read more

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  • The Revolt of the Zanj

    by Henry Moa ...
    Zanj were constrained African slaves to work with the clearing of the grounds in the south of Iraq. When they were raised, they were joined by the slaves of the cities and the villages. It also profited from the support of certain Arab tribes of the area. Their chief, named Alī ibn Muḥammad, was a man who became aware of their misery and promised to them grounds and richnesses. It managed to ... Read more

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  • Al-Hashishiya The World of the Assassins

    by henrymoa ...
    Hassan as-Sabbah was born in 1044 in Qum, in Iran, a few kilometres from the city of Ravy, which would become Tehran. An intelligence greater and eager for knowledge, he threw himself at heart lost in reading at the expense of his father who wanted to make a cloth merchant.Sent in a madrasa in Ravy, where he made the acquaintance of Omar Khayyam, the future Persian poet, who dedicated him a great ... Read more

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  • The Twentieth Wife

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  • Ramses: Under the Western Acacia, Volume V

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