What was life really like for an Ottoman princess? Why It Sucked to Be the Sultan’s Daughter. You’re born the daughter of a prince in the Ottoman palace. You carry the title of the ruler, earn more than a worker earns in two weeks every single day, and you will never rule for a single day. Your wedding will be a party for a curtain.

This is a princess’s life in Istanbul in the 1500s, lived from the inside. “You” are a composite of several real princesses; every rule and most people are real.

YOUR LIFE, CHAPTER BY CHAPTER
00:00 A wedding where nobody sees the bride
00:39 Born with the ruler’s name
02:01 Outranked by a slave
02:41 Growing up silent in the harem
04:11 The safest person in the palace
05:12 Married to your grandfather’s servant
07:00 The wedding of 1562
08:12 A spy in silk
10:02 The legend about your son
10:49 When the throne changes hands
12:13 Widowed, and married again
13:14 The man who said no
14:08 The night of the carriages
15:30 Why it sucked
16:00 Ask her husbands
17:49 Four hundred warships
19:00 Back to the wedding

THE EVIDENCE
We label every source, so you know how sure we are.
HISTORIAN = modern research · EYEWITNESS = someone who was there · CHRONICLE = an Ottoman-era record · DEBATED = historians disagree

Title after the name, hatun becoming Sultan around 1500: HISTORIAN: Leslie Peirce, “The Imperial Harem”, 1993.
100 akche a day unmarried, 300 to 400 married; the 1575 register (Safiye 700, Ismihan 300, Mihrimah 600): HISTORIAN: Peirce 1993, from the palace payment registers.
The Sultan’s favourite ranked above his sisters and aunts: HISTORIAN: Peirce 1993.
Harem education (reading, law, sewing, harp, singing; ten embroidery teachers): EYEWITNESS: Angiolello and Menavino, palace pages, via Peirce 1993.
Mihrimah’s letters to King Sigismund II Augustus: HISTORIAN: Nejat Uctum, Belleten, 1980; originals in the Central Archives of Historical Records, Warsaw.
Princesses marrying the Sultan’s servants, 6 of Suleiman’s 9 grand viziers sons in law, divorce of existing wives: HISTORIAN: Peirce 1993; Fariba Zarinebaf, “Harem”.
The triple wedding of 17 August 1562 and its accounts: HISTORIAN: Peirce 1993, from the Topkapi Palace archives.
The red satin and the coins at a princess’s wedding procession (1593): CHRONICLE: Selaniki, via Peirce 1993.
Princesses as informants, couriers and political strategists; the letter to Catherine de Medici: HISTORIAN: Peirce 1993.
Sokollu “in awe” of his wife: a Ragusan report, via secondary sources. DEBATED.
Mihrimah’s loan of 50,000 gold coins to Selim II: one account only. DEBATED.
Nurbanu’s marriage plans (Venetian report, 1583): EYEWITNESS: Venetian ambassador, via Peirce 1993.
Ozdemiroglu Osman Pasha’s refusal, Kalaylikoz Ali Pasha’s divorce in Buda: HISTORIAN: Peirce 1993, after Uluçay.
Fatma Sultan’s four marriages: HISTORIAN: Uluçay and Sakaoğlu, via Wikipedia summaries. DEBATED in detail.
The nineteen brothers and the carriages to the Old Palace, 1595: EYEWITNESS: a foreign witness quoted in Peirce 1993.
Shah Sultan and Lutfi Pasha, 1541: CHRONICLE: Mustafa Ali, via Peirce 1993.
Beyhan Sultan, Kara Ahmed Pasha (1555): HISTORIAN: Peirce 1993.
The rebel pasha lured to the capital (1655) and the dowry worth a year of Egypt’s taxes: EYEWITNESS: Evliya Celebi, via Peirce 1993 (a story from the next century).
Mihrimah’s offer of 400 warships: HISTORIAN: Peirce 1993, after Hammer. Only the offer is recorded.
Mihrimah’s mosques and burial in Suleiman’s tomb; 3 of 5 imperial complexes linked to women: HISTORIAN: Peirce 1993.

MYTHS WE LEFT OUT ON PURPOSE
“Sons of princesses were killed at birth”: we found no source for the 1500s. Many of them grew up and became pashas.
“Her husband had to stand until she let him sit”: historians call that an urban legend.
“Palaces on the Bosphorus”: that fashion came in the 1700s.
No fez: it only became the dress code in 1829.
No ages at marriage, and nothing about wedding nights: this is a story about power, not about that.

NEXT IN THE EMPIRE
Who should we follow next: the grand vizier who married her, the Sultan’s mother, or the man who said no? Tell us in the comments.

#OttomanEmpire #History #AnimatedHistory #Istanbul #OttomanHistory #Princess #Harem #SuleimanTheMagnificent #Mihrimah #HistoryFacts #16thCentury #Topkapi #Explainer #Animation #Documentary

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10만 원짜리 짝퉁 시계를 차던 시절이 있었다? ⌚

몇 개씩 사서 돌려 차던 노란 G-SHOCK 같은 시계들이, 정장 스타일로 옷이 바뀌면서 안 어울리기 시작했다는 데프콘. 그때는 능력이 안 돼서 급하게 브라이틀링 짝퉁 시계를 샀고, 한 10만 원 정도 했을 거라고 털어놓습니다.

그래도 경험은 경험이라며, 나중에 돈을 많이 벌면 진짜 원하는 좋은 시계를 사야겠다는 생각을 늘 품고 있었다는 이야기. 그리고 한마디로 정리하죠. “이게 가짜는 오래 못 가요.”

📌 모델이 되게 많아서 몇 개를 사 두고 돌려 차기 시작했다는 이야기도 나옵니다. 옷차림이 바뀌면 시계도 바뀐다는 데프콘의 시계 연대기입니다.

여러분은 갖고 싶던 물건, 진짜가 올 때까지 기다리는 편인가요? 첫 시계에 얽힌 추억이 있다면 댓글로 들려주세요.

데프콘의 시계 이야기가 더 궁금하다면 구독하고 다음 편도 함께해요.

#패션 #시계 #명품시계 #브라이틀링 #지샥

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In 1996, Nintendo finally released the N64 and Super Mario 64. Was it worth the long wait?
(Chapter Markers and more below…)

Episode Information
GTV 210 “When I’m 64″ Season 11 Episode 8
Original Airdate: September 26, 2026
Produced: Aug. 26- Sept. 26, 2026

Recorded at Butsudan Studios (while on summer vacation) and edited on my new 15” M5 MacBook Air! (purchased just 2 days before Apple raised the price… by a lot!) Edited and produced with Final Cut Pro and Photopea, which is just like Photoshop but FREE! All paid for with Gainful Employment™ which around this time of the year, I don’t have to be at…

0:00 GTV ID: Changing the System Where Available
0:03 Prologue: Mario Wings to the Sky
1:06 Act 1: Shoot Into the Wild Blue
9:12 CM 1: “The Game is Changing” (Japan, 1996)
9:44 Act 2: Tricky Triangles
19:57 CM 2: “Change the System” (U.S., 1996)
20:29 Act 3: Blast to the Lonely Mushroom
34:56 CM 3: “Someone Special is 64” (U.K., 1997)
35:38 Act 4: Plunder in the Sunken Ship
42:35 CM 4: “Shake Up Your Summer” (Japan, 1997)
43:08 Epilogue: Somewhere Over the Rainbow

This video is part of the 1996 Trilogy! Watch the others here!
Crash Bandicoot https://youtu.be/R2DmmRc9x9o
NiGHTS into dreams… https://youtu.be/18kh1M-2Dw8

Here are other GTV episodes set in the Mario Universe

What Was Yume Kojo? https://youtu.be/KL9o9zzCUsQ
Super Mario Bros Wii Coin World Arcade https://youtu.be/99soQZW4tDc
Super Mario Bros 2 Manga https://youtu.be/32y2jyLaPLY
Super Mario Bros 2 Music Bug https://youtu.be/z5Tyo6rDEsU
Dr. Mario Manga https://youtu.be/Oln2adHrUY4
The Perils of Pauline https://youtu.be/joVW22tj6Yw
Super Mario Land Manga https://youtu.be/cUBmBWGMcMo
The Story of Super Mario Bros. 3 https://youtu.be/eHxlok5cDtA
The Story of Super Mario Bros Too (AKA The Great Giana Sisters Story) https://youtu.be/s1wOfDat6rA
All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros. https://youtu.be/oPYfqJbkXfw
Donkey Kong Manga https://youtu.be/vTp3IuiDHJY
Super Mario Land 2 Manga Part 1 https://youtu.be/k0H_OJX81b8
Super Mario Land 2 Manga Part 2 https://youtu.be/CvSxSHzK4dQ
Super Mario All Stars https://youtu.be/ZOfKjEa-MGw
The Year of Luigi https://youtu.be/MnoczHYxOoQ
Super Mario Land 3 Manga (Part One) https://youtu.be/6hTgFpsXf8k
Super Mario Land 3 Manga (Part Two) https://youtu.be/GG54etiTVmY
Super Mario Pixel Remasters https://youtu.be/ulLfLezlsAM
Mario & Wario Manga Adventures https://youtu.be/Aj1hg3vz2V0
The Story of Super Mario Bros. https://youtu.be/EhLY-KgAhWY
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island https://youtu.be/UUaaOdbNZjI
Super Mario RPG youtu.be/qJCAW26MiCI
The Story of Super Mario Bros. 2 https://youtu.be/6ZJDMIAMQQ4

Partial Transcript

On June 23rd, 1996, the Nintendo 64 along with Super Mario 64 debuted in Japan to a receptive audience. At the end of September, Mario 64 made its way to the U.S. and everywhere around the world by 1997. Though it took a very long time for the game to reach completion, the effort was worth the wait. With critics, fans, and the non-believers all in agreement that Mario 64 was an amazing, groundbreaking game, the start of a new era in gaming and one of, if not the greatest game of all time.
Originally, the release was planned for the fall of 1995, only to be pushed back into 1996 with the goalposts constantly shifting.
Along the way, Shigeru Miyamoto discussed the new hardware with his friend Shigesato Itoi, who was interested in bringing Mother 3 there. When the conversation steered towards the final name of this machine, Itoi rejected the use of the word Ultra. It was a leap over the Super Famicom. But what would come next? Hyper, Mega, Giga. Itoi noticed that most gamers just called the Super Famicom or Game Boy simply the Nintendo anyway. He proposed a very simple name, Nintendo 64.
It was more than just highlighting the bit count of the CPU inside. 64 has a special meaning in ancient Japanese numerology. 10 to the 64th power is known as Fukashigi and carries the meaning of something mysterious and inexplicable and the highest number possible before reaching infinity. Video game Nirvana. By August 1995, the new official name had been mentioned by the big N and the media. Yet still, the N64 and a new Mario game had yet to be seen. But that would change as the company invited the public to see the N64 in action for the first time at Shoshinkai 1995. On November 24th, Shigeru Miyamoto took the stage to announce a few things. The N64 would use cartridges, not CD-ROMs.
Maybe the long wait was worth what it delivered when the Nintendo 64 and Super Mario 64 reached their destination of millions of homes around the world in 1996.

Clips furnished by: Chris Aaron RGTV, Digital Neohuman, Game Preservationist, Grooveraider (I think… maybe it was left on the cutting room floor.), ITV, KCCI, KOCO, Kukun Kun, Oji Channel, Raven XP, Video Game Archive.
Other sources include: Famitsu, Nintendo Power, EGM, Game Fan, Game Pro, Edge and CVG Magazines. All infinite fountains of information!

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Kristin reacts to research she reviewed on resistance training and its relationship with brain health and chronic disease.

Her takeaway? Strength training deserves far more attention in conversations about long-term health.

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