In 1847, the enlightened Abdülmecid, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, enjoyed a series of private piano performances by Franz Liszt, contributed generously to Irish famine relief, and green-lighted the laying down of Morse’s electrical telegraph, which he had test-run by transmitting messages to his extensive harem.
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