02-25-2015, 05:33 PM | #881 |
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Actually the real surprise is that more kings did not become insane. But thinking oneself made of a shiny looking substance that shatters in a spectacular way when struck is in fact a nice metaphor for monarchy. Not to mention being capable of cutting people badly.
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03-02-2015, 03:37 PM | #882 | |
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High-class Parisian art heist with a mystical twist. From the castle known as the Château de Fontainebleau were stolen objects of gold and bronze:
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03-08-2015, 02:46 PM | #883 |
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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
Idaho lawmaker needs grounding in female physiology.
Dear lord above, don't they have any sex-ed in Idaho? SFW.
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03-08-2015, 04:14 PM | #884 | |
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03-15-2015, 09:37 PM | #885 |
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Mother Nature is weirder than human beings, as she regularly demonstrates:
Fifty Shades of Violent Snail Sex Probably safe for work, but does involve snails stabbing each other in sexual situations. |
03-17-2015, 11:23 PM | #886 |
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This might not be exactly weird but it's interesting, and might have gameable implications, whether it's actually true or not. Anyway, are there old nuclear torpedoes concealed on the floor of the Bay of Naples?
Nuclear Torpedoes In The Bay of Naples? That dates to 2005. Whether it's true or not, one does ponder the possible implications nuclear bombs near huge cities and both Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields. |
03-19-2015, 04:58 AM | #887 |
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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
Boeing built a fake suburb on top of their bomber factory in WWII.
The suburb that never existed
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03-19-2015, 09:19 AM | #888 |
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03-19-2015, 09:54 AM | #889 |
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Saddam Hussein, as you may know, had a Quran printed in his own blood. He also had his name inscribed in the bricks used for the reconstruction of Nebuchadnezzar's city of Babylon. In real life, it is pretty obviously narcissism and megalomania. In an RPG setting though, it seems like a desperate magical gambit. Maybe trying to use nationalistic magic or cause a reality quake that unearths Haroun al-Rashad's Baghdad (whether it ill be full of History-B irruptors or not, who can say.) It actually seems like the sort of thing a lunatic leader of a rogue state might do as part of an Esoterror plot.
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03-19-2015, 07:01 PM | #890 | |
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