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Hey everyone,
So I work in a Library, and I recognized the Dewey Decimal number pretty quick in the Manhattan episode. Dewey Decimal numbers are used to catalog books by subject. The subject of 915.63 would be about Middle East and/or Asian geography and history.
Not sure what the relevancy is… maybe something to do with Mulan? who knows.
But the Dewey Decimal number is never alone. It is always accompanied by a cutter number and a year date. The cutter and year would help determine the exact book, but without them, it would be much more difficult to find the exact title.
Your thoughts?
[adrotate group="5"]A Kris, which the knife is ( I think Cora quickly even mentions it), is a knife from south east asia. So a book about them would be placed there. It could also be about asian magic as the kris is a dagger with magical properties
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KrisHere’s a screencap showing the shelf (click the thumbnail to see it full size, was too big to post)…
Someone on facebook (I don’t know them personally so won’t say their name), said it could be a nod to Aladdin.
John Freely’s book Istanbul is classified under 915.63 by the Dewey System. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Freely
Aladdin’s Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World (2009)…book by john freely
Works under MDS 915.63
1–50 of 87,400 ( next ) titles | shelf | coversThe Great Cities: Istanbul by Colin Thubron
Insight Guides Istanbul by Thomas Goltz
Life In A Turkish Village by Joe E. Pierce
Baedeker Istanbul by Jarrold
Istanbul by Touring club italiano
Constantinople by Alexander Van Millingen
Treasures of Istanbul by İlhan AkşitConstantinople…. Byzantium…hmmm
That area is full of legends: Alexander the great, King Solomon (1001 Nights, but also the book of Kings and the Book of demons, double hmmm), not to mention Istanbul itself is steeped in legends…. OuaT… One big puzzleTake your pick, I’d say… Any takers on the Middle east and
http://www.librarything.com/mds/915.63Hey everyone
I am from Istanbul and I am very excited about this. If it is really about Istanbul most probable story would be the one about Maiden’s tower (kız kulesi). It’s one of the most popular legends of Istanbul. For those who don’t know, it is a tower at the southern entrance of the Bosphorus strait 200 m (220 yd) from the coast and the legend is about Sultan’s daughter.Sultan had a much beloved daughter. One day, an oracle prophesied that she would be killed by a venomous snake on her 18th birthday. The sultan, in an effort to thwart his daughter’s early demise by placing her away from land so as to keep her away from any snakes, had the tower built in the middle of the Bosphorus to protect his daughter until her 18th birthday. The princess was placed in the tower, where she was frequently visited only by her father.
On the 18th birthday of the princess, the sultan brought her a basket of exotic sumptuous fruits as a birthday gift, delighted that he was able to prevent the prophecy. Upon reaching into the basket, however, an asp that had been hiding among the fruit bit the young princess and she died in her father’s arms, just as the oracle had predicted. Hence the name Maiden’s Tower.There must be many turkish legends but this is the one that occurs in Istanbul and everybody knows. But who knows what our writers think. It could be anything
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