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Genghis Khan's Pen As Mighty As His Sword
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| 8-23-2004
Posted on 08/23/2004 6:46:57 AM PDT by blam
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posted on
08/23/2004 6:46:57 AM PDT
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blam
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
08/23/2004 6:47:26 AM PDT
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blam
To: blam
That's pronounced "Jen-jis", don'tcha know...
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posted on
08/23/2004 6:47:53 AM PDT
by
bondjamesbond
(We live in a wonderful country where any child can grow up to be the next Ronald Reagan.)
To: bondjamesbond
for that reason alone I will never vote for Kerry. Jen-Jis khan!!! where is this guy from??
To: bondjamesbond
This kerry guy is giving me a trejenjis head-ache
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posted on
08/23/2004 6:50:48 AM PDT
by
C210N
To: blam
Genghis Khan apparently was the supreme alpha male having about 16,000,000 descendents. Raping all those women had some effect even to this very day.
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posted on
08/23/2004 7:00:08 AM PDT
by
Citizen Tom Paine
(The greatest pleasure is to ...)
To: escapefromboston
for that reason alone I will never vote for Kerry. Jen-Jis khan!!! where is this guy from??
You have a problem with the way Kerry spoke 30 years ago? He no longer tries to sound like me. He just acts like me now.
Thurston
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posted on
08/23/2004 7:11:33 AM PDT
by
isthisnickcool
(Strategery - "W" plays poker with one hand and chess with the other.)
To: isthisnickcool
if thurston was sooooo rich shouldn't he had his own boat?? besides that , gilligans island was totally believable.
PS if anyone is from Boston and listens to the howie carr radio show , Howie's impression of Kerry sounds alot like Thurston.
To: blam
Historians have long assumed the ancient Mongolian ruler was illiterate, primarily because the Mongolian written language was created in the early 13th century, when Genghis Khan would have been in his 40s and not have had time to learn, the official Xinhua news agency said. Just as Latin was used in Europe, Chinese and Pali were used in Asia before the development of some written languages. Just an asside but the assumption that the functions of a language are not being filled in the absence of an indiginous written language are not justified in most cases.
However, the idea that Genghis Khan wrote in Mongolian is facinating and I hope for more of his work
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posted on
08/23/2004 7:42:02 AM PDT
by
JimSEA
( "More Bush, Less Taxes.")
To: blam
The great Khan was the guy who broke the back of the muslim empire, a catastrophe from which it has never recovered. The muslim wackos like OBL seem to blame western European civilization. The truth is that, as Khan was edging into the middle east, he sent a party of emissaries to a muslim capitol. They slaughtered them and sent their heads back to Khan. With that Khan proceeded to butcher everyone in the city and in the ensuing years methodically went from city to city in the middle east totally destroying muslim culture and civilization. It was probably the most devastating calamity to ever happen to a major civilization, something on the order of what happened to the Incas.
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posted on
08/23/2004 8:41:51 AM PDT
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laishly
To: laishly
True. And it was Genghis Khan, the Chinese King, who burned the library at Alexandria, Egypt, detroying all those ancient documents.
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posted on
08/23/2004 9:36:48 AM PDT
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combat_boots
(Dug in and not budging an inch)
To: blam; FairOpinion; Ernest_at_the_Beach; SunkenCiv; 24Karet; A.J.Armitage; abner; adam_az; ...
Thanks blam! Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on, off, or alter the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
The GGG Digest -- Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)
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posted on
08/23/2004 11:20:06 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Unlike some people, I have a profile. Okay, maybe it's a little large...)
To: escapefromboston
To: SunkenCiv
Very interesting article.Thanks for the ping.
To: laishly
The Muslim world had already fractured into smaller states by the time the Mongols hit. Your story about the decapitation of the Mongol emissaries is true, but it was done by one of the smaller Muslim states, Khwarezm, in central Asia.
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posted on
08/23/2004 11:30:29 PM PDT
by
Seydlitz
To: combat_boots
Actually, the library at Alexandria had been burned nearly 1400 years before, during a battle between the Egyptians and Julius Caesar's Roman legions.
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posted on
08/23/2004 11:31:35 PM PDT
by
Seydlitz
To: blam
The great Ruler said (and I quote)
Did you know I served in Vietnam? ;)
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posted on
08/23/2004 11:36:29 PM PDT
by
Libertina
(Abandoning Vietnam: 3.5 million died, (2.5 in Cambodia killing fields), 1.4 mil refugees)
To: blam
This story demonstrates the dire need for licensing and registration of all pens. And a central handwriting database.
Of course, typewriters must remain available for law enforcement officers only.
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posted on
08/23/2004 11:45:38 PM PDT
by
Unknowing
(Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.)
To: combat_boots; Seydlitz
Fascinating history of the library. Notes that the library was *not* burned by Julius Caesar, and in fact was around throughout Roman times, and was finally consigned to the flames by the Moslems -- as recorded by a Moslem historian:
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posted on
08/24/2004 5:58:01 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Unlike some people, I have a profile. Okay, maybe it's a little large...)
To: blam
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posted on
08/24/2004 7:24:36 AM PDT
by
eleni121
(Thank God for John Ashcroft: Four more years!)
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