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2011-06-16 Southeast Asia

Bomb in front of school injures two in southern Thailand

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Posted by ryuge 2011-06-16 06:29|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Romans and Muslims didn't co-exist during the same time period.

Posted by gromky 2011-06-16 17:06|| 2011-06-16 17:06|| Front Page Top

#2 You telling me mooselimbs didn't march elephants across the alps ;)

Kind of sums it up though; two unbelievable things, cut and paste, glory in the past, naked man with his sister.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-06-16 17:48|| 2011-06-16 17:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Muslims refer to the Byzantines as Romans, grimly, because that's how the Byzantines referred to themselves.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-06-16 18:44|| 2011-06-16 18:44|| Front Page Top

#4 ...cause the Byzantines had pretensions to the dust bin of what used to be the Western Roman Empire. That being occupied largely by various Goth and German fiefdoms, with smatterings of holdouts in Ireland and the nooks and carnies in the backlands. However, the boys out of Constantinople spoke Greek by that time, not Latin.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-06-16 19:42|| 2011-06-16 19:42|| Front Page Top

#5 So then Timur would be referred to as a mongol, and would this be around the same time he went and kicked the snot out of the western islamic peoples?

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-06-16 21:47|| 2011-06-16 21:47|| Front Page Top

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