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Communist Zombie
Nov 1, 2011

Trin Tragula posted:

In 1914 there was a Royal Navy midshipman who rejoiced in the truly epic name of Wenman Wykeham-Musgrave. On the 22nd of September, the poor sod managed to get himself torpedoed three times in an hour.

And just to clarify for others, three times as in three different ships.

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Communist Zombie
Nov 1, 2011

Honj Steak posted:

The profile actually looks like a heraldic lion, though. They really just have never seen a lion.



Didn't someone debunk this by showing it from the angle it was supposed to be presented at where it then looked pretty good, even if still somewhat incorrect?

Communist Zombie
Nov 1, 2011

BlueDiablo posted:

Uh, that "small time ruler in Central Asia" was the goddamn successor to the Persians

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

Edit: In fact, Ghengis Khan hosed Khwarezmia so hard that he undid thousands of years of careful irrigation projects and essentially reverted the area that is now modern Iran into a desert. And also he killed the last Caliph of Baghdad by rolling him into a carpet and trampling him with horses.

And depending on who you ask, he killed so many people that the average temperature of the Earth dropped a few degrees.

Didnt his rampaging also gently caress them up so bad that they only recently (last 50 years) got back up to pre Khan population levels?

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