Deli, richtig. Sein Versuch gelang ihm allerdings nicht so recht. Aller Anfang ist schwer. Verzeih, wenn ich jetzt etwas kritisch reagiere: sein Deutsch war mehr oder weniger ein echtes Kauderwelsch.

tamam, Catwoman

You can view it now among my private pictures.

You want me to remove the large picture, DK?
Have you noticed I shortened all my long posts, as you requested the other day.

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/00XP5bE7hzbi5/610x.jpg

German and Turkish fans have been urged to celebrate their Euro 2008 semi-final meeting peacefully, the presidents of the two nation's football federations said in a joint statement issued on Wednesday. "There can be no place for violence and rioting despite the sporting rivalry on the playing field," said German football supremo Theo Zwanziger and his Turkish counterpart Hasan Dogan in the statement issued by the German federation DFB.

"We got along well even when our teams fight for 90 or 120 minutes with all they have and by fair means for a place in the Euro final."

Germany were due to play Turkey later Wednesday in the Euro semi- finals in Basle, Switzerland.

Hundreds of thousands of fans from both camps were expected to watch the match together in the various public viewing areas in Germany, with 500,000 people alone expected in Berlin's fan zone.

Turks form the biggest community of foreigners in Germany with around 2.2 million people.

Zwanziger and Dogan said they were happy about many calls for solidarity issued in the run-up to the match.

"We are happy to see all those cars with German and Turkish flags on their windows and about joint initiatives around the game in numerous German-Turkish areas. That's the way it should be.

"The fans as well should do their share to strengthen the traditional German-Turkish friendship," said the statement.


http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/214785,german-turkish-football-bosses-urge-fans-to-be-peaceful.html

She was native to Asia and appeared as early as 7000 BC. The earliest form of Mother goddess worship is recognized as having started with the Catalhoyuk people, among whom the goddess represented fertility. She was the 'Mother of everything' and her power was limitless. The Mother goddess figure had far-reaching influence and can be traced beyond the Four Corners of Anatolia to Mesopotamia, Egypt, Arabia and Scandinavia.

The evolution of Kybele, over thousands of years, finds a more definite form with 'Kubaba', the Hittite Mother goddess. The Hittites date from 1800-1200 BC and were a highly developed civilization, with an Empire spreading over Anatolia and Syria. They worshiped a broad array of Gods of which Kybele was but one.

The importance of the Kybele cult lies not only in its longevity, but also in its being the last pagan cult to die out. The cult was one of the most difficult for Christianity to overcome.
The earliest inhabitants of Ephesus were the Lydians, Lelegians and Carians, who all worshipped Kybele. The cult of Kybele spread to Greece and underwent a subtle change. The Hellenistic influence modified the sensual nature of Kybele and on her return to Anatolia the licentious goddess was rather more chaste and innocent than in former times.

When the Ionians settled in Ephesus, they didn't attempt to stamp out the cult of Kybele. Instead they very cleverly introduced the worship of Artemis alongside that of Kybele.http://sailturkey.com/panoramas/ephesus/discover_ephesus/demo/2000.html

I have always been interested this subject, the history of the crusaders. History sure repeats itself.

Killing in the name of Christ
seems like a sick farce! The cry of those who supported the Crusades became "Dieu li volt!" (God wills it!) The sixth commandment, "Thou shalt not kill" was changed to only include Christians making killing Moslems acceptable. Urban also promised that anyone who died in battle would be forgiven all their sins and would go straight to heaven.

When the Crusaders arrived in Northern Turkey, they captured and looted the town of Lycea, where, as it so happened, most of the inhabitants were actually Christians. The rampaging continued into the Holy Land and in June of 1099 they reached Jerusalem, which was captured in July. The Crusaders slaughtered both Jews and Moslems in their places of worship.

Massacres in the predominately Christian cities of Constantinople, Ephesus, and Antioch alone saw more Christians killed by Crusaders than all the Muslims and Jews in all those wars combined excluding the genocide following the capture of Jerusalem (which also included Christian victims.) Crusaders burned the synagogue, in which the Jews had taken refuge, killing about 6,000 Jews, and stormed the mosque, butchering an estimated 30,000 Muslims. They left a legacy of fear and contempt in the Muslim world.


http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/lionheart.htm
http://gbgm-umc.org/umw/bible/sack.stm

To the handsom: Any reason why you responded in Italian using your L&H Power Translator Pro? Since when do you converse in Italian?

Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople.
Constantinople was first sacked by Crusaders in 1204. This was one of the most shameful events in the Christian history of the West for which Pope John Paul II made special apologize during his recent visit to Athens. The Crusaders incited by a rapacious Doge of Venice plundered the Christian capital, sacked its magnificent churches and palaces, and raped nuns. Most beautiful works of art and holy relics were stolen from Constantinople which never fully recovered its glory. The second sack by Sultan Mehmed in 1453 marked the end of the Christian Capital and the Empire.
http://www.logoi.com/pastimages/crusaders.html
http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/197003/the.castles.of.the.crusaders.htm

Teaschip, you made a fair observation!

Thanks, Teaschip, I guess today I am showered with compliments. Right on!