Preppers
Larry Jaques wrote:
On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:35:01 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:
pyotr filipivich wrote:
The Mongols, circa 13th century, came from Mongolia. They took
China. They took, sacked, Baghdad. They sacked Kiev on the way
_home_ from central Europe. At one point, the Mongol Empire covered
90 degrees of the Eurasia land mass - Kiev to the East China Sea.
The Huns were different a different mob. Attila "the scourge of
God" threatened Rome in the 6th Century. By then the Roma Empire in
the west was moribund.
The Turks (Seljuks, house Osmali - the Ottomans) came out of
central Asia, finished off the Roman empire (Constantinople) with aid
from the Venetians. 1543 and all that. A hundred years later _they_
besieged Vienna, lost, and the croissant roll was invented.
Their blinds were invented much later. ;-)
That's a shady comment if I've ever heard one, Bubba.
They were invented by a city slicker for duck hunting!
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