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Question: What is the most gory historical fact!?
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that in 240 AD, 2,000 gladiators; 70 lions; 40 wild horses; 30 elephants; 30 leopards; 20 wild asses; 19 giraffes; 10 elks; 10 hyenas; 10 tigers; 1 hippopotamus; and 1 rhinoceros!. all died at the Colosseum in a seven day span
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Ever hear the phrase, 'the blind leading the blind!?' Here's how it began:

Basil II, who was Byzantine emperor in the 11th century, once brutally defeated the Bulgarian army; and had lots of prisoners!. But he didn't kill them, no no! Instead, he had 99% blinded!. The other 1% he blinded in one eye only, so that each of them could lead a hundred guys home!. Understandably, when the Bulgarian king met his troops on return, he was extremely upset!.!.!.and so you don't hear much about him or the Bulgarians after that for a long, long, time!.

Partly this was because a few years earlier, the Bulgars had captured and slaughtered the army of Basil's predecessor, Nicephorus, and made N's skull into a goblet!. Which he regularly filled with wine at his table!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I have a gory one for you!.

In England a common method of execution was hanging, drawing and quartering!.

This was when a person was hanged untill they were just about dead, cut down, had all their organs pulled out and were chooped up!. This method of execution was used for the crime of treason, Guy Fawkes was executed this way in 1605 for trying to blow up the houses of Parliment!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

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i;d say it was this method of chinese torture

http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Slow_slicin!.!.!.

Slow slicing (Traditional Chinese: 凌遲, Simplified Chinese: 凌迟, Pinyin: língchí, alternately transliterated Ling Chi or Leng T'che), also translated as the slow process, the lingering death, or death by a thousand cuts, was a form of execution used in China from roughly AD 900 to its abolition in 1905!. In this form of execution, the condemned person was killed by using a knife to methodically remove portions of the body over an extended period of time!. The term língchí derives from a classical description of ascending a mountain slowly!.

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At any given time there are at least 4 wars raging on Earth!.

In some cases (US/Afghanistan, Russia/Georgia) technologically advanced nations use satellites, computer networks, supersonic aircraft, and million $ bombs to kill people!.

In other cases (Rwanda, Liberia) simple peasants turn on their neighbors with machetes and hatchets!.

This unhappy cycle of violence has existed since the dawn of history!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

That in 1305 William Wallace had his arms and legs hacked off, and was then decapitated, disembowled, castrated, etc!. The bastard deserves it for invading the peace loving English nation!.Www@QuestionHome@Com