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Joseph is on page 397 of 463

Saying the icons in Hagia Sophia were "whitewashed" is being overly polite. The Ottomons killed the priests celebrating mass when they took the city, smashed the altar, and threw paint over the icons. The sanctuary was completely desecrated.

— Dec 20, 2013 08:42PM

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Joseph is on page 445 of 463

Oh, brilliant escape plan foiled!

— Dec 26, 2013 08:52PM

Joseph is on page 442 of 463

P. D. James called, she wants her premise back.

— Dec 25, 2013 08:30PM

Joseph is on page 400 of 463

Congratulations! You learned that the Romans were experts at water control!

— Dec 21, 2013 07:58PM

Joseph is on page 385 of 463

Congratulations! Hagia Sophia is a mammoth cathedral, it served the capital of the Empire. The Patriarch of Constantinople still wants it back.

— Dec 18, 2013 08:34PM

Joseph is on page 380 of 463

So, the Byzantine Empire isn't actually a thing, it remained The Roman Empire until the fall of Constantinople in 1453. The term Byzantine was dreamed up by enlightenment scholars because the Roman Empire had to include Rome. So New Rome, the name Constantine gave it, was the capital of the Roman Empire for 1000 years and the Ottoman for 500.

— Dec 17, 2013 08:11PM

Joseph is 80% done

And we've stopped the action why?

— Dec 16, 2013 08:13PM

Joseph is 73% done

So your psycho with Dante on the brain is a transhumanist who's missing a few bricks. With all these shenanigans I can't decide whether to listen to Also Sprach Zarathustra or watch Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda! And now we're off to Constantinople?

— Dec 14, 2013 08:16PM

Joseph is 55% done

Baptism joke not funny.

— Dec 13, 2013 08:08PM

Joseph is 52% done

I haven't wanted a character to just die already since Brünnhilde's final aria in Götterdämmerung!

— Dec 12, 2013 08:42PM

Joseph is 50% done

Halfway through! And, for some kinda genius, Langdon can be kinda thick.

— Dec 11, 2013 08:03PM