Weird History

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*very weird history*

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With all the cancel culture, i hope someone cancelled that there statue of that freak. cruel cruel man.

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So I know what you're thinking here, he doesn't look that brutal and he's not much of a looker. But maybe you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. This man was not only responsible for the deaths of as many as 40 million people, but his notorious shagging means that one in every 200 of all of us alive today is a direct relative of him - that's tens of millions of us.

But how did it all begin for him...

CHILDHOOD MEMORIES

Unlike the mollycoddled men that grow up today playing Pokémon Go and listening to tracks about 'Becky with the good hair', ol' Ghengis had the kind of brutal upbringing that can only breed a cold, calculating, hardnosed bastard.

Born in north central Mongolia around 1162, Genghis Khan was originally named 'Temujin' after a Tatar chieftain that his father, Yesukhei, had captured. Imagine that, your dad captures some bloke and then to add insult to injury he names you after him.


Genghis chillin' on a modern Mongolian bank note. Image credit: Blogspot

Rival Tatars poisoned his father when he was only nine, and his own tribe later expelled his family and left his mother to raise her seven children alone. This meant that Genghis grew up hunting and foraging to survive, and as an adolescent he may have even murdered his own half-brother in a dispute over food.

A PORTRAIT OF THE MONGAL AS A YOUNG LAD

When he was about 20, Genghis was captured in a raid by former family allies, the Taichi'uts, and temporarily enslaved. He escaped with the help of a sympathetic captor and then joined his brothers and several other clansmen to form a fighting unit.

From there he began his slow ascent to power by building a large army of more than 20,000 men. He set out to destroy traditional divisions among the various tribes and unite the Mongols under his rule.

But, thinking about it, I might have got ahead of myself a bit here...

BUT WHO DA FUCK DA MONGOLS?

That's a good question, mate. Originating in the steppes of Central Asia, the Mongol Empire emerged from the unification of nomadic tribes under the leadership of Genghis Khan. He was proclaimed ruler of all Mongols in 1206, so being a Mongol originally meant you were ruled by Khan.


The Mongolian empire was established because he went against custom by putting competent allies rather than relatives in key positions in his army and, while he executed the leaders of enemy tribes, he would incorporate the remaining members into his clan.

He also ordered that all looting wait until after a complete victory had been won, and organized his warriors into organised units of 10 not based on family connections. He was tolerant of people of all religions in his armies, he cared more about conquering, than what god you believed in.

GENGHIS'S BLOODY RAMPAGE THROUGH ASIA

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By the time he was proclaimed the ruler of all Mongol he was thought of as more of a god than a man.

Genghis wasted no time in capitalizing on his divine stature. Although they were spurred by the fact they thought they were fighting for a literal god, his armies were also driven by environmental circumstances. This was because, as his empire grew, food and resources were becoming scarce. They therefore had to capture more territory to survive.

In 1207, he led his armies against the kingdom of Xi Xia and, after two years, forced it to surrender. In 1211, Genghis Khan's armies struck the Jin Dynasty in northern China, lured by almost endless rice fields and easy pickings of wealth.

TURKISH (MURDEROUS) DELIGHT
Genghis Khan's armies were also active in the west against border empires and the Muslim world. Initially, he used diplomacy to establish trade relations with the Khwarizm Dynasty, a Turkish-dominated empire that included Turkestan, Persia, and Afghanistan.

But when one of his diplomats was killed he demanded the governor be extradited to him and sent a diplomat to retrieve him. Shah Muhammad, the leader of the Khwarizm Dynasty, not only refused the demand, but in defiance sent back the head of the Mongol diplomat.

This act released a fury that would sweep through central Asia and into eastern Europe. In 1219, Genghis Khan took control of planning and executing a three-prong attack of 200,000 Mongol soldiers against the Khwarizm Dynasty.

The Mongols swept through every city's fortifications with unstoppable savagery. Those who weren't immediately slaughtered were driven in front of the Mongol army, serving as human shields when the Mongols took the next city.

THE TEARS OF A KHAN

But eventually even the mighty must face death. He is believed to have died in 1227 after falling from a horse, although one more questionable account claims he was murdered while trying to force himself on a Chinese princess.

However he died, he took great pains to keep his final resting place a secret. His funeral procession slaughtered everyone they came in contact with and repeatedly rode horses over his grave to help conceal it. The tomb is most likely on or around a Mongolian mountain called Burkhan Khaldun, but to this day its precise location is unknown.

All in all, it's impossible to know for sure how many people perished during the Mongol conquests, but historians put the number at somewhere around 40 million. The population of China plummeted by tens of millions during Khan's lifetime, and he may have killed a full three-fourths of modern-day Iran's population during his war with the Khwarezmid Empire.

All-in-all, the Mongols' attacks may have reduced the entire world population by as much as 11 percent.

So, there we have it. Genghis Khan, one of the biggest and hardest bastards who ever lived.

Words by James Dawson

Topics: History
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Legend Irish woman was buried alive is 'true' - says historian
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Mark McConville and Denise Calnan

June 05 2016 09:50 AM

A woman of no major wealth, her name is now infamous with the tale of how she was buried alive.

The 1700s was a time of a "terrible famine", according to local historian Jim Conway.

He told Independent.ie how Margorie reportedly took ill, before she was pronounced dead.

Grave robbers were quick to visit her grave in the Shankill Graveyard, but got more than a shock when she woke up during the robbery.

She reportedly walked home and lived to an old age, even going on to have more children.

"Margorie McCall was reputed to have lived once but buried twice, as it says on her grave stone," Mr Conway said.




"This is the grave I have been asked many questions about, as there are a lot of people who are sceptical about the truth – whether the story is myth or not.

"I believe the story to be true based on my research."

Mr Conway described how Margorie was woken from her fever-heavy slumber.

"Shortly after she was buried the grave robbers came to retrieve the ring," he said.

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Actually i studied the first case. Man was a good husband. Good provider. Drove for his company as a salesman.

Five drunk men from a cable mnfg company check into same hotel as Man whom was regular traveler. They have a loaded gun.

They shoot it off. Once.

Turns out, they don't know. They see him being wheeled out dead next door to their room in morning.

As it turns out, when examined, their room of five men had a bullet hole in wall. no bullet. They filled it with tooth paste. But one of the five said to the boss via phone: Just wish Johnny had not shot off that gun. Then said Ah, nothing when question furthered.

Thru thorough police investigation, Single man lived a good clean life. He regularly rented a movie at the hotel when work travels came up. he was sitting up in bed on opposite side of wall from Room of five drunken men. When they shot the bullet, it entered into the rectum of the Good Man. Killed instantly.

The other ten I don't have time to check out. That www.address is workable at FB.

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not with the anxiety of our current world, but i would ordinarily challenge this. 45 minutes? would have to read it but it cannot be mere silence that would make u want out. sounds like an air concentration or poisoning problem. Surely we can handle less than one minute of silence.