something interesting to think about

Black Bashi Bazouk by Jean-Léon Gérôme, French. 1869

A bashi-bazouk or bashibazouk (Turkish başıbozuk, "damaged head", meaning "leaderless", "disorderly") was an irregular soldier of the Ottoman army. They were noted for their lack of discipline. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashi-bazouk)

Hall at Shinnecock. William Merritt Chase - 1892

A hall is fundamentally a relatively large space enclosed by a roof and walls. In the Iron Age, a mead hall was such a simple building and was the residence of a lord and his retainers. Later, rooms were partitioned from it, so that today the hall of a house is the space inside the front door from which the rooms are reached.

Deriving from the above, a hall is often the term used to designate a British or Irish country house.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_house