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TIL that after the Ottomans entered Constantinople the Last Byzantine Emperor remarked that "The city is fallen and I am still alive." He tore off his imperial ornaments so to let nothing distinguish him from any other soldier and led his remaining soldiers into a last charge where he was killed

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