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To: TarasBulbous

Some handle T.B.

(PSA)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taras_Bulba

“The character of Taras Bulba, the main hero of this novel, is a composite of several historical personalities. It might be based on the real family history of an ancestor of Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay, Cossak Ataman Okhrim Makukha from Starodub, who killed his son Nazar for switching to the Polish side during the Khmelnytsky Uprising. Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay’s uncle, Grigory Illich Miklouho-Maclay, studied together with Gogol in Nizhyn Gymnasium and probably told the family legend to Gogol.[2] Another possible inspiration was the hero of the folk song “The deeds of Sava Chaly”, published by Mykhaylo Maksymovych, about Cossack captain Sava Chaly (executed in 1741 after serving as a colonel in the private army of a Polish noble), whose killing was ordered by his own father for betraying the Ukrainian cause.[3]”

How sort of timely and relevant! An internet cossack sweeping out of the Ukranian Steppes to wage a taunting war on the letter Q!

Whatever.


182 posted on 12/02/2019 7:11:53 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

The handle anagrams to Subaural Bots.
Apt!


185 posted on 12/02/2019 7:19:15 PM PST by Melian ( Check yourself before you KeK yourself. ~ Melian)
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