“Just one last question, Mr. Khan. We’ve covered the unification of the Mongol tribes, developing the Silk Road, controlling huge areas of the world as your conquering armies dominated parts of Eastern Europe, the Middle East and, of course, Asia. We’ve covered your revolutionary military tactics, your complete trust in your generals, and your enlightened views on many aspects of society and religion. However it would seem that history may remember you most for your unmerciful slaughter of millions of innocent people and the annexation of their lands. Tell me, is there a geographical line somewhere in your head where you will stand and be satisfied that you have achieved all of your dreams ?” Genghis thought for several minutes about this and then said “Yes, the horizon.”
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Six Crooked Highways 
Well done 🙂
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Thanks, Deb 🙂
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Hmmm, power seems to have no bounds. ‘Over the horizon, over the rainbow, to infinity and beyond!’ For the megalomaniacs the one world is not enough.
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Exactly
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Great piece of writing again.
Ah, Genghis Khan, a fine example of a man in touch with his feminine side.
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Thanks, Hobbo. Don’t know about his feminine side, but GK was certainly in touch with females on the side, with some 17 million direct descendants in Asia, leading to conundrums like this one. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/the-descendants-of-genghis-khan-all-50-000-of-them-rush-to-register-their-vote-in-mongolia-733561.html
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Thanks for that interesting link.
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Genghis was in touch with so many feminine sides that 1 in every 16 people alive today are descended from him.
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Ahem, I don’t think it was their sides that interested him. 😉
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😂😂😂
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Cleverly done.
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Thanks, PurpleStone
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Damn! Dude be hungry …all the time
good Six
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Great six. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton
Happy Holidays
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Thanks, UP. The pedant in me has to point out that he said ‘power tends to corrupt etc’ 😉
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Well done, as if pulled from the headlines themselves.
I have to ask…would the line be drawn with a Sharpie?
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Thanks, Liz. Did you mean that would the line be drawn by one of these? 🙂 https://www.vintag.es/2016/10/before-punks-there-were-sharpies-40.html
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Oh! I had never heard that term before…interesting!
Was actually thinking about a US outgoing president who was ridiculed for redrawing maps to suit his agenda, in Sharpie pen.
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Ah, so that was the reference. Very funny. Missed it because everything associated with him automatically Deletes and goes in the Bin in my brain these days. 😉
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I look forward to that, myself. Less than a month left!
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That was a scoop alright. He would have loved our modern times I’m sure, Twitter and Instagram being maybe his best new Generals.
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Nah, I think he’d be more interested in doing than being written about. He didn’t even have his picture painted in his lifetime. 😉
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It seems it is all or nothing for those hell bent on power.
Such a timely SSS.
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Thanks, Pat
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Wowwwwwww!
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Thanks, Jael.
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Oh, you’re welcome!
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Hell raisers and boundaries are always in conflict.
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Indeed, Lisa 😉
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