I like that. It's actually a reworking of the classical song Ochi Chernye (dark eyes). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZIFhJ6fyzk The Red Elvises also do a great surf version of Hungarian Dance #5, … (View Post)

Timur The Lame, better known as Tamerlane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur destroyed the qanat system in Persia, and the region has definitely never recovered. Iran used to be a much more fertile … (View Post)

So how about this guy, Hulagu Khan? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulagu_Khan One of the more interesting Khans. While he never was Great Khan, he ruled over a big chunk of the middle east. He's the … (View Post)

I hate to rain on your parade, but Xenophon, the writer of the Anabasis, was actually a young man when he signed up for the expedition. He was about 28-29 when they first left, not even old enough to… (View Post)

Actually the largest pre-nuclear man-made explosion was the Halifax Explosian, in Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion A ship collided with another ship carryi… (View Post)