Guinness Book of World Records

Longest Golf Cart

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Robert Frost

1. Close your eyes and imagine this: You are a tourist in
San Marino. It's a beautiful warm day in April.
This afternoon, you have some free time. Do you want
to take a walk?
In one afternoon, you can walk across the whole country!
2. San Marino is very small-only 23 square miles. From
east to west, it's no more than 6 miles (9 kilometers).
3. What can you see and hear on your walk?
Let's begin at the border between San Marino and Italy.
You can see farms on much of the land around you. Some
of San Marino's farm products are wheat, olives, and
grapes. In the center of the country, you can see a mountain.
Its name is Mount Titano. There are nine small towns on the
mountain. In these towns, you'll see old stone buildings
with red roofs.
4. All around you, people speak Italian. Maybe you'll hear
other languages, such as Spanish, German, French, and
Japanese. Why?
You are not the only visitor to San Marino today. This
little country has more than two million visitors each year.
No one really knows the number. People come and go freely
here.
5. Some people come to learn about its history. They want
to see the old buildings and find out about the past. Others
come to buy coins and stamps. People all over the world
collect the beautiful and unusual stamps of San Marino.
6. If you are tired from your walk then it's time to sit down
and have a nice, cool drink or a gelato - an Italian ice cream.

jolly as a thick slice with jelly
very happy
After her Mother’s Day party, Jackie was as jolly as a thick slice with jelly.

to call on
to visit

My Mother Taught Me About...

1. My Mother taught me about ANTICIPATION...

"Just wait until your father gets home."

2. My Mother taught me about RECEIVING....

"You are going to get it when we get home!"

3. My Mother taught me to MEET A CHALLENGE...

"What were you thinking? Answer me when I talk to you! Don't talk back to me!"

4. My Mother taught me LOGIC...

"If you fall out off that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store with me."

5. My Mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE...

"If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they are going to freeze that way."

In history, the Ottoman Empire was one of the powerful empires in the world. Its power takes its life over 700 years. The leader of the O.E. was the Sultan, who were very important makers of history. For example Kanun-i Sultan Süleyman , Fatih Sultan Mehmet , 2. Mahmud , 2. Abdulhamit and many more. After the O.E. accepted  belief in Islam , the Sultans become also caliphsand then they dominated the Islam governments. The first Sultan who got the name caliphs was Yavuz Sultan Selim.

Fatih Sulatan Mehmet, one of the sultan of O.E. , in spite of becoming sultan very young, was very successful. He was 12 years old who became Sultan . His ambitions and belief gave him a lot of power. With this power he was going to conquered İstanbul. The  Byzantine Empire was also very powerful empire at that times. For that reason they never thought that someone can conquered İstanbul. They trusted their army and power but something they crossed over was that Fatih was very clever and he had very strong ambitions.

Istanbul was qonuered in 1453 by Fatih Sultan Mehmet , who were 19 years old that time, with a crazy idea. He couldn’t get in by the sea way so he decided to take the ships over the land by using big tolling trees in to the Golden Horn. This idea was never thought before by anyone else. Conquest of  İstanbul was an important event for history. This event closed the Middle Ages and opened the historical period from the fall of  Constantinople.

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