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To: NotchJohnson

The only thing that stopped the Ottoman empire from overtaking Europe was the perfection of the machine gun in the early twentieth century.

Otherwise we would have an Islamic Hitler across the pond.

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22 posted on 09/09/2004 4:07:16 AM PDT by tm22721 (In fac they)

To: tm22721

The decline of the Ottoman Empire long predated the machine gun. They started collapsing in the Napoleonic era.

33 posted on 09/09/2004 8:52:00 AM PDT by Poohbah (If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room.)

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