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Rowing on Bosphorus latest popular trend

Rowing in Istanbul's Golden Horn has become the new sports trend in Turkey's biggest metropolis, with a number of people willing to join an outdoor activity rather than staying indoors following the coronavirus pandemic.

"The growth rate of this sport has increased by five times through the pandemic," Fırat Fırat, a rowing instructor at Haliç Rowing Club, said on April 24.

What happened to prisoners of war in Medieval England

Every medieval English monarch had to decide how to deal with prisoners of war. Ruling over territory that sometimes ran from the highlands of Scotland to the south of France, their authority rested on violence. Fighting the French, Scots, Welsh, Irish, or their own nobility in a string of civil wars, they could not have kept their throne without victories on the battlefield.