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Where is castle Dracula? :stuck_out_tongue:

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Fun fact: Trotsky was assassinated by a Mexican with an icepick.

[quote=“Hawkflight, post:53, topic:4244”]
Ever heard of the law of entropy?
[/quote]Heat distribution?

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Where did the magyars come from, 'cos I’m still unsure on that one?

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Wait, are we talking history or mythology here?

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I like History too,not just seeing watching History (yes I did like Pawn Stars,too),H2 (The Aliens’ Current Home which I don’t watch), & AHC (For Armed Forces and American History.)

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I won’t deny that they’re connected.
As for what you believe, suit yourself. :smile:

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Roman Empire is my favorite thing in history!

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I honestly love American history, but world history is pretty interesting, too, especially learning about Attila the Hun! (Let’s rip someone’s limbs off to torture them!)

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I know. It formed into the Holy Roman Empire (which, for the record, soon became very unholy, not even Roman, and not even an empire!) and the Byzantine Empire.

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It wasn’t necessarily unholy. It just wasn’t holy. It goes in the middle.

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And the Illuminati has influence in everything :stuck_out_tongue:

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I don’t know what could ever make you think such a ridiculous thing…

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It doesn’t formally exist. The Catholic Church was what created the HRE, and maybe the knight orders it founded are still with us, but not the Empire itself, which was destroyed at the least when Germany nationalized.

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Not to mention, the Catholic Church didn’t start the HRE for about 400 years after the Western Roman Empire fell apart (or 300 years if you consider the HRE to have started with Charlemagne, who really got the ball rolling himself, without the Church). And the connection between the Church and the HRE was somewhat superficial, especially after the Renaissance–it was always under German/Frankish control. While Roman ideas and a few institutions (actually, Catholicism is the only one I can think of) are still with us today, the Roman Empire itself has been defunct for a very long time. Even if you count the Byzantine Empire, which did continue on its own for quite a while, it was a shell of its former self by the High Middle Ages, and was essentially a city-state when the Turks conquered it in 1453. No direct connection to the ancient Roman government has existed since then.

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Let us not forget the Assyrians skinning people and hanging their flesh over the walls of conquered cities!

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Yes! So much fun!

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This is nothing compared to what the early americans did to some Indians.
I won’t even say it, t’was horrible.

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How about when Peter the Great set fire to the beards of rebels to teach them a lesson?

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coughInquisition anyone?cough

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Galileo! He was tried by the Inquisition!