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  • Chormaqan and the Mongol Conquest of the Middle East

    01/29/2006 8:49:26 PM PST · by indcons · 25 replies · 896+ views
    HistoryNet.com ^ | Blast from the past | Timothy M. May
    It was 1246, and a Franciscan monk named John de Plano Carpini, the papal envoy to the Mongol court in Karakorum, sat listening very intently to some Russian priests at the coronation of Güyük Khan. Carpini's mind absorbed every detail as the Russian priests spoke of the Mongols' past conquests, reciting the names and locations of the Mongol generals. And when they were done speaking, Carpini had accomplished an amazing thing; He had gathered more intelligence than all of Christendom had ever known about these mysterious, terrifying horsemen from the east. From the Russian priests, he learned of one general...
  • Bush indulges in a little horseplay in Mongolia (Funny and nice read on Bush visit)

    11/21/2005 11:32:13 AM PST · by indcons · 120 replies · 5,109+ views
    Financial Times ^ | November 21 2005 | Caroline Daniel
    In the first visit by a sitting US president to Mongolia, George W. Bush announced that he was in Ulan Bator to deliver an “important international message”, then after a pause, added: “Secretary Rumsfeld asked me to check on his horse.” His comment got a knowing laugh from the watching Mongolian elite, dominated by officers festooned with gold medals. When Mr Rumsfeld visited Mongolia last month, the defence secretary received a horse as a gift, which he named Montana. However, Mr Bush had a more serious reason for being here: to highlight Mongolia’s symbolism as an emerging democracy in the...