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1 posted on 07/19/2010 6:39:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

Maybe it was Aids...don’t all the gay rags claim he was one of them?


3 posted on 07/19/2010 6:41:16 PM PDT by jessduntno ("Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny...its principles are the founding principles." - LevinHey,)
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To: SunkenCiv

I thought he died of malaria. That can kill quite quickly.


4 posted on 07/19/2010 6:43:15 PM PDT by Jemian
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To: SunkenCiv

I thought he died of alcohol poisoning.


5 posted on 07/19/2010 6:44:17 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Even the earth is bipolar.)
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To: SunkenCiv

The author doesn’t even speculate on how water from a river in Greece could get to Persia to poison Alexander.


13 posted on 07/19/2010 8:02:46 PM PDT by wildbill (You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Incidentally, Alexander was planning a campaign to conquer Arabia at the time of his death. What would the history of the Arabs have been like if they had been absorbed into a Hellenistic kingdom??


18 posted on 07/20/2010 1:39:56 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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