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Berlin – Today’s modern, busy woman on her hamster wheel occasionally craves a luxury: moments of boredom. It was quite different for the female part of the social upper class in the 19th century: the women were bored to death. Previously, the ladies at feudal courts had suffered from doing nothing. During a guided tour of Istanbul’s Topkapi Palace, in the harem where up to 2,000 women were wasted in the 16th century, you will learn that their main problem was endless boredom. Meaningless life.
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