Monday, May 18, 2009

Genghis Khan at first glance


Two things I know about Genghis Khan:

  1. He was born with an effing blood clot clenched in his fist.
  2. When he died, his body was taken back to his homeland and buried. Then soldiers on horseback trampled over his grave hundreds of times to disguise its locations. Then another group of soldiers murdered these soldiers to prevent them from telling the location. Then a third group of soldiers murdered this second group to prevent hearsay. Then the entire homeland was blocked off as a restricted zone and guarded by Mongolian soldiers for 800 YEARS. When the Soviets took over, they continued guarding the homeland to prevent nationalist uprisings. They stored heavy artillery around its perimeter. In 1990 the Soviet Union collapsed and Genghis Khan's homeland was opened for the first time in almost 900 years. The Soviet artillery remains.
More to come.



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