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Madison, Indiana lies in America’s heartland, the land of the early pioneers heading west down the wide Ohio River. Established in 1809, it is strategically located in a triangle between Indianapolis, (IN) Cincinnati (OH), and Louisville (KY).

January 15, 2007
Published in Travel

The Real Owner of the Land: Crazy Horse

By Ahmet Yeşiltepe*

..... First we arrive at Mount Rushmore, where the white man carved the four American President portraits with great enthusiasm. Gutzon Borglum was the head of the team which carved George Washington’s, Thomas Jefferson’s, Abraham Lincoln’s and Theodore Roosevelt’s heads into Rushmore and turned it into a monument.

August 15, 2005
Published in Travel

The Turkish-Jewish Community and the Synagogue in Vienna

By Naim “Avigdor” Güleryüz* – Researcher
On November 16, 1885 in Vienna, during the ceremony for the establishment of a new synagogue in the Zirkusgasse Second District, No.22, the president of the Sefarad, Vienna Jew Marcos Russo spoke to the invitees as follows: “When his majesty Franz-Josef is the emperor of Austria and his majesty Sultan Abdulhamid II is the emperor of the Ottoman Empire, when Sadullah Pasha is the ambassador of Ottoman Empire in Vienna and Marcos Russo is the president of the Turkish-Jewish community…the construction of this building is started in order to meet the religious need of the Jews of Sefarad…”

October 6, 2009
Published in Interesting Facts

Hagia Sophia at the American Airlines Terminal

New York - In the year 532 AD, the Roman Emperor of the East, Justinian I, ordered the leading architect of the day to build a monument that would outshine all other religious buildings. The end result, which took five years to complete, was the Hagia Sophia, and it didn’t disappoint the emperor.