Out for a quick drink after work this evening with a friend who's back from the Middle East, who told us about Abdul Hamid II of Turkey banning various words that might encourage people to rebel against him, like 'freedom' and 'parliament' and 'deputy' and 'dynamite'. Oh, and 'nose'. Because he had a very large one. Apparently a French theatre
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