While Sultan Suleiman was known as the Magnificent in the West, he was always Kanuni Suleiman or The Lawgiver (ÙØ§ÙÙÙÛ) to his own Ottoman subjects. As the historian Lord Kinross notes, Not only was he a great military campaigner, a man of the sword, as his father and great-grandfather had been before him.argalÄ± Ibrahim Pasha was the boyhood friend of Suleiman. Ibrahim was originally a Christian from Parga, (Epirus), and when he was young was educated at the Palace School under the devshirme system. Suleiman made him the royal falconer, then promoted him to first officer of the Royal Bedchamber.
In this song, the singer warns the China Girl that he will destroy her culture by imparting Western values of materialism and superficial beauty (I'll give you television, I'll give you eyes of blue,I'll give you a man who wants to rule the world).owie's version was produced by Nile Rodgers, who came up with that guitar riff. According to Rodgers, they had finished recording the song  Let's Dance , and Bowie game him a recording of the original China Girl, explaining that it could be a hit if they could come up with a hook.
First of two back-to-back consecutive films playing a television journalist character for actress Jane Fonda who would do the same in her next movie The Electric Horseman (1979). Fonda prepared for her role in The China Syndrome (1979) by going the rounds with Californian female television reporters.he movie's title is based on the theoretical but implausible notion that if a nuclear meltdown were to occur in the United States, the nuclear core would melt all the way through the Earth's core and emerge on the other side of the world. However, China is simply a metaphor for the other side of the world.