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11 May 2005 03:07:34 AM |
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OT: The cult of Genghis Khan |
The cult of Genghis Khan
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=637421
Nearly 800 years after his death, the man who took the title of
Universal Ruler is being venerated in his native Mongolia as never
before. Andrew Osborn finds out why
11 May 2005
It's Saturday night in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, and the far-flung
capital's fun-loving young things are out on the town - at the Genghis
Khan nightclub.
Behind the bar, peering from the label of a vodka bottle a familiar
face - benign rather than bloodthirsty - stares back with small, dark
penetrating eyes.
Genghis Khan
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/050e3cccb9a3691c
Mongolia
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/dff603fe1ed290d9
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| Title: Re: OT: The cult of Genghis Khan |
11 May 2005 09:51:25 AM |
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maff wrote:
The cult of Genghis Khan
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=637421
Nearly 800 years after his death, the man who took the title of
Universal Ruler is being venerated in his native Mongolia as never
before. Andrew Osborn finds out why
From the item:
At its height, the empire created stretched from south-east
Asia to Europe, covering 13.8 million square miles, a
little less than the British Empire with its 14.1 million
square miles.
It apparently encompassed half of the then known world's
population.
One recent genetic study claimed that one in every 200 men
worldwide is descended from Genghis, so widely and
violently did he spread his seed, routinely impregnating
women.
We'd better tell the xians: "We found Adam!"
Bob Dog
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