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The Return Of The Inquisition: Do You Confess?
2018-09-30
In 279 BC, the vast army of King Pyrrhus of Epirus was met by Roman forces at the Battle of Asculum in southern Italy, in what would be one of the costliest military engagements of ancient history.

Pyrrhus fancied himself the second coming of Alexander the Great and believed that he was a descendant of Achilles.

Many of his peers and contemporaries believed Pyrrhus to be the greatest military commander of all time.
Posted by:746

#2  I would call those proceedings Monty Pythonesque, but that would be insulting to the comedy troupe. What bothers me is the lack of reasonableness in the whole debacle.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2018-09-30 06:33  

#1  Pyrrhus of Epirus my glutei maximi. It's Soviet Union with accusation of sexual impropriety replacing counter-revolutionary activity
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-09-30 04:25  

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