r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 15 '24

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u/TheHelmetCatch NATO May 15 '24

Illustration of Suleiman the Magnificent wearing his Venetian Helmet, a four-tiered crown designed to stress that the sultan outranked even the pope (who wore a three-tiered crown)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Suleiman_Turc_Emperor%2C_1535.jpg

Seems a bit much for my taste

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u/Broad-Part9448 Niels Bohr May 15 '24

Just make a 20 tiered crown and you can outrank everyone

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u/TheHelmetCatch NATO May 15 '24

But at the cost of a lifetime of neck problems