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...secret for a while: he died during a military campaign, and no one was told until the enemy ruler surrendered weeks later. Then a funeral procession made its way north to the Mongolian steppe, a route that took several more weeks. According to Marco Polo, who arrived in Mongolia about 60 years later, soldiers accompanying the procession killed everyone they encountered, as well as some 2,000 servants, who were allegedly buried with the Khan. Later the soldiers themselves were executed. It is known that the tomb is on a mountain named Burkhan-kaldun, but no one has any idea...
...Mongols were indeed good at all that. But thanks in part to recent archaeological finds in the arid lands of Inner Mongolia, now part of China, historians have begun to realize this perception of the medieval Mongols is woefully one-dimensional. Genghis Khan, their most celebrated leader, was not merely a bloodthirsty killer but also a supreme military strategist and talented politician, as adept at forging alliances and gathering intelligence as he was at wreaking terror and havoc. And the Mongol civilization he ruled had a rich cultural and artistic heritage that went back at least 6,000 years...
Everyone knows that the Crimson kind of sucked during the 1992-93 season. That team finished with a record of 6-20, and some games were such blowouts that they looked like reruns of Dream Team vs. Outer Mongolia...
...most challenged affiliate may be MTV Asia, based in Hong Kong and broadcast in English to 30 countries as diverse as Saudi Arabia and Mongolia. The region's conservative nature makes it harder to probe delicate issues, but that hasn't stopped the network. Despite Chinese reticence toward discussing politics, MTV Asia veejay Rita Tsang got Chinese and Hong Kong teens to express candid opinions in "Changing Hands," a segment about the crown colony's 1997 return to China, beamed by satellite and cable into about five million Chinese homes. " AIDS at Your Doorstep" covered the disease and safe...
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