Armenian Genocide Resolution On March 4, 2010, House Resolution 252 was narrowly passed with a 23-22 vote. This resolution stated that the mass killings and deportation of the Armenians by the Ottoman Turks was indeed genocide. The resolution passed “despite a lobbying blitz from the Turkish government, which hired an army of K Street lobbyists to fight it” (Isikoff 1). Similar resolutions had been brought to floor vote before but the Turks’ “government-to-government realpolitik triumphed, preventing a full House vote three times since 2000” (Kosterlitz 4). Most Armenians living in America are descended from survivors of the calamity and grew up listening to stories about how the Ottoman Turks led their grandparents
One issue that is in dispute between the return of artefacts is whether the artefact was obtained legally from the beginning. Lord Elgin, who was the ambassador to the Ottoman Empire between 1799 and 1803, was worried about the damage being done to the significant artworks displayed on the Parthenon. So he was issued with a Firman (a royal decree issued by a sovereign in historical Islamic states) that gave him the authority “to take away any pieces of stone with old inscriptions or figures thereon”. Thus, chiselling and hacking out parts of the Parthenon was implied. Elgin claimed that his agreement to take the marbles was with the authorities that controlled Greece at the time, thus it was legally binding.
Originally Ghāzī warriors depended upon stealing to make a living, and were prone to incitement to rebellion in times of peace. The corporations into which they organized themselves attracted religious and political rebels of Islamic. The Ottomans were probably the first to adopt this practice. By early Ottoman times it had become a title of honor and a claim to leadership. The first nine Ottoman chiefs all used Ghazi as part of their full
Nick suddenly remembered what Jordan had said about Gatsby lying. Every time Gatsby says “educated at Oxford” he would usually stumble, or rush this sentence as if he were hiding something. Gatsby also began telling Nick about his accomplishments at the war, and how he used to collect jewels all over Europe. Gatsby noticed the sudden change on Nicks face and pulled out a medal which said “Major Jay Gatsby” and a photo of him and others at oxford, to prove that he was telling the truth. 2.)
There is only one man who is responsible for the major dispute: “Seventh Earl of Elgin (known as Lord Elgin), the then British Ambas-sador to the Ottoman Empire, in 1801” (Yannis Hamilakis, 1999). Lord Elgin at the time was only trying to protect the Parthenon Marbles: “There is no doubt that Elgin saw such removals partly as rescue; the site was being slowly consumed by frequent fires and theft”(Downs, 2010). The Parthenon Marbles created by the Greeks specifically by the designer himself, Phidias, would be responsible for revolutionizing art processes for what we know as historical artifacts today: “The origin of the epidermis on Greek and Roman monuments has been attributed to (a) the application of a preservative treatment, (b) biogenic processes, or (c) a combination of both” (Galanos, & Doganis, 2003). As a result from the Greeks and Romans monuments, present-day sculptures and various monuments are able to retain their present condition for many years to come rather than requiring constant attention. The ancient traditions of the Greeks has provided the society of art work today with the ability to create works that will not only last, but will have the potential to be aesthetic in the future for the many viewers to come.
As a result of the bombing in London on July 7th 2005, the London authorities spent thousands of hours on scanning for the evidence from London’s ubiquitous closed circuit televisions. Apart from the security, wearing the headscarves build up the wall of discrimination between Muslim and Christian. The incident in London accelerates their attitudes toward each other are going to be more in crisis. These would permanently break down the nation’s unity and also increase in the number of Islamophobia in France. Banning the headscarves can soften these problems because there is no headscarve to differentiate whether she/he is Muslim or not.
It is in the basement of a London auction house and Lord Northampton owns it. The initial problem with the Sevso treasure was looting and missing provenance, Lord Renfrew claimed “it must have been looted...before 1980”. Along with these problems it was also smuggled from Hungary, who now claim it was theirs. This is due to a big factor; in a cellar, there was a hole in the corner, which had been retouched and was the same size as the cauldron containing the Sevso treasure. There was a suspicious death, where a man was found hanging, however his feet were on the ground, along with three sets of footprints entering and two sets leaving.
In Francis Pryor’s film “King Arthur’s Britain”, Francis re-examines Britain AD to find out the truth of the Dark Ages. By talking to other history experts, Pryor finds new and previously unexplained evidence, overturning the idea that Britain was crushed under Roman and Anglo-Saxon rule. Pryor meets with archeologist Dominic Powlesland, who was previously asked to investigate a few 5th century burials that were discovered in a quarry site. Dominic has conducted one of the largest archeological surveys in the world, examining every inch of the landscape where other historians believe the Anglo-Saxon’s invasion took place. Dominic’s survey led him to find the remains of endless miles of farms and villages.
Three men in ski masks walked in to the museum during broad daylight and grabbed four works of art, making it a robbery worth an estimated $163 million. This most recent art robbery is not the largest art theft in history, however it is probably the biggest in Europe as Marko Cortesi the spokesman for the Zurich police has put it. One of the issues with estimating the price for the stolen works is that these paintings are considered rare and “unsalable”. Thus a question arises why do people continue stealing art? What is the purpose?
When it was necessary to Turkey in something they conceded they forgot about it. Now we can answer the question why Armenians scattered all over the world. So the rest that got rescued after the genocide and took refuge in other countries create the Armenian diaspora around the world. It has almost been 100 years after the tragedy of the Armenian people, we, the younger generation know the story, we are familiar with the actual documents, writing a book, documentary film, opened several museums (including in Washington, D.C.) who tell and prove about the horrific events occurred throughout several years of mass murder. I know that there are no Armenian families in the world who do not have casualties from the genocide, and did not remember the stories of his great-grandparents that they have experienced during those tragic years.