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    Posted: 02-May-2006 at 08:23
The Byzantine Emperor Zeno (476-482) was a magnificent athlete in his early days, especially in foot races which he is meant to have easily won. Historians attribute his fleetness of foot to the fact that he was born without kneecaps. He was also the only ruler in history who I know of who succeeded his son to the throne, instead of the more typical other way around.
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Thomas Marshall (1854-1925), U.S. Vice-President, once remarked "What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar." Will Rogers (1879-1935), American Humorist retorted "Our country has plenty of good five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge fifteen cents for them."
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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 04-May-2006 at 19:07
Aladdin of Arabian night is a Chinese man.

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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06-May-2006 at 02:47
London, Viena, Koeln, and Marseille were built by the Ancient Roman.
Louis15 died by smallpox.
Henry8 died by syphilis.
Wolves in the U.S.A. were perished. They were imported from Canada recently.
Sindbad is Indian.
British national diet building was bombed by Luftwaffe during WW2.
Hitler began Olympic Flame.
Chile pepper came from American continent.
Ivan4 killed his son by himself.
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Originally posted by FrankFry

British national diet building was bombed by Luftwaffe during WW2.

I don't usually pick up on people's linguistic mistakes, but that one is too funny to resist.

Have you ever weighed the average British MP?

 
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Polish Lithuanian hetman was the first European to conqer Moscow. He died during the Battle of Cecora at the age of 73 years.

Nicolaus Copernicus, Prince Joseph Poniatowski ( Leader of polish army during Napoleonic wars, great polish hero ) and Henryk Dbrowski ( another leader from Napoleoni wars, Legions of Dbrowski were first polish unit fighting alongside with French, He is also mentioned in refrain of polish national anthem) didin't speak polish or spoke very little. All three native language was German.

First polish king was in his youth a hostage in Germany where He met many allies which help him in the future.

Dostojewski, Feliks Dzieryski were of Polish origin.

Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski was polish. His lenguage was so rich because He neede a dictionary to write books in English. ( at last my polish teacher told me so ).

Hungarians took a crown for Stefan which was destined for polish future king Boleslaw the Brave. They had smaller distance to Rome.

Tartars Chan when saw polish army coming to Vienna said: " Be cursed those who understimate the might of Poland" and escaped from the battle. We had to wait more than 300 years for next person to mention about our might and it was Gorge Bush during the debate with John Kerry about Irak: "You forgot Poland".

 
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In XVIth century Poland there was such an event:

One of members of Polish Brothers ( a most radical prothestants group, they were pacifists, they carried wooden swords, they didin't recognize private property and belived that that all people should work, they also freed their peasants ) entered to the Catholic Church, grab a chalice and threw it on the ground. The court sentenced him only for repaing the value of chalice. The sentance was saing that: Rest of the penalty will be executed by God himself.

One of Polish nobles was sentenced to death penalty in England. During executing the penalty He was asked if He need a priest. Polish nobel answered with an anger that: Polish nobel doesn't need mediator to speak with God and God knows that Polish nobel is coming to him and He will know how to salute him.
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Our ancestors annihirated mammoths and Neanderthal men.
Since the British Diet building was bombed, its Lower House became small.
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Posts: 7035 		  Quote gcle2003 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10-May-2006 at 06:02

Originally posted by FrankFry

Our ancestors annihirated mammoths and Neanderthal men.
Since the British Diet building was bombed, its Lower House became small.

What is this about the British Diet? Chicken tikka masala?
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