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  1. Successful Veiled Prophet? Or odds of Zoroastrian-Islam syncretism?

    Al-Muqanna was a Persian in the 750s who burned his face in chemical accident and thenceforth wore a veil in front of his face. He claimed to be a prophet and created a syncretic religion that merged elements of Zoroastrianism and Islam. He tried to raise a rebellion against the Abbasids...

  2. I want to destroy the US, early and permanently

    How, after the 1783 Treaty of Paris, can the US be broken up into most of its constituent states as disastrously as possible? Some of them can form federations but more independent nations in the early US is preferable to fewer. Commonly, this seems to be sort of handwaved with "keep the...

  3. The Knights of Aragon?

    In 1131 Alfonso the Battler, King of Aragon and Navarre, wrote a will that insisted his kingdom be given to the Knights Templer, Knights Hospitaler, and Knights of the Holy Sepulchre. When he died three years later, the nobles of the country refused to carry out these orders and made his...
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