Word: mong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Korea in 1392, as in 1965, was a nation violently divided. The Koryo dynasty was challenged by the House of Yi, and civil war was in the air. At this dangerous juncture Jong Mong-ju, a minister loyal to the old dynasty, paid a courtesy call on King Taejo, the father of Yi Bang-won, the leading strategist of the opposition. His host's son, in salutation, took up a harp and sang this sinister and seditious ditty...
...They insist 'to this day that Abraham Lincoln should have accepted their King Mong-kut's timely offer of elephants in 1862. Regretfully, Lincoln explained to the King that the U.S. climate did not "favor the multiplication of the elephant." It is possible, nonetheless, that if the Union had been able to field a pachydermous panzer division, the U.S. Civil War might have been foreshortened...