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  1. darthdj31 City States Map Director

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    It might have even been the 1500's. Let me check my source.
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    darthdj31, Jul 9, 2012
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    The shortest war ever was the Anglo-Zanzibar War which lasted for only 38 minutes.
    JerBear, Jul 9, 2012
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    Members of the SS had their blood types tattooed on their armpits.
    trots 20-20, Jul 10, 2012
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    yuri2045, Jul 10, 2012
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    darthdj31, Jul 10, 2012
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  6. yuri2045 A Marines Biologist

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    The term barbarian for the romans is today's equivalent to the latino's 'gringo'. It basically denotes foreigners, the meaning we got today probably derives from the final days of the Western Empire. Well, that kind of contradicted itself but I guess you understood what I meant.
    yuri2045, Jul 10, 2012
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    Or a chink's guido.
    darthdj31, Jul 10, 2012
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    That is false, Gringo is used to address white people in a insulting way.
    Romulus211, Jul 10, 2012
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    well...DUH
    the term barbarian was derrogative as well
    yuri2045, Jul 11, 2012
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    Where have you been?
    Romulus211, Jul 11, 2012
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    Hidden in my dark room, waiting for the inevitable day where you get your new PC and we play WoT and Kaiserreich
    yuri2045, Jul 11, 2012
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    Romulus211, Jul 11, 2012
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    Douglas Macarthur was like the reincarnation of Ancient Roman competitive mentality. In ancient Rome, children were encouraged to be as good and better as their forefathers. Douglas Macarthur was like that, he's entire life was competing against the legacy of Arthur Macarthur, and this was encouraged by Pinky Macarthur, Arthur Macarthur's wife and Douglas Macarthur's mother. Funnily they both died alone and forgotten by Washington.
    thelistener, Jul 14, 2012
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    In the 1930's a group of wealthy business men, including G.W. Bush's grandfather, tried to attempt a coup against FDR on the basis that he was turning trying to implement communism and install a Fascist government. They tried to recruit General Smedly Butler but the general ratted them out during a secession in congress. No one involved in the plot was brought to to testify.
    Augustus Magnas, Jul 14, 2012
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    282 Russians died in the Korean War.
    16 died in the Vietnam War.
    darthdj31, Jul 14, 2012
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    In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he like it or not.
    JerBear, Jul 14, 2012
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    When lord of war was being filmed they had to alert NATO that they were lining tanks for the movie otherwise they would of thought someone was mobilising for war from the satellite pics.
    thelistener, Jul 15, 2012
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