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Two years later, the Turks laid siege to the capital, Candia.
After the gloomy events of the Prussian siege of Paris and the slaughter of the Commune that followed, the glistening countryscapes that Corot exhibited in 1872 seemed like a reaffirmation of La Belle France herself.
These hills have a cascading fury to them, and the dwelling seems to be under siege.
Military documents confirmed that three commandos observed the siege on the Branch Davidian compound.
His two most Borgesian works are The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1984), an hommage to the great Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, and The History of the Siege of Lisbon (1989), in which a proofreader inserts a single word--"not"--into a single sentence in a book he's checking, thereby questioning every celebrated theme of Portuguese history.