That Wacky Millennium Part IV (1300 - 1409)


	That Wacky Millennium Part IV (1300 - 1409)

revenantdm

6-13-2008 2:46 PM

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timeline, history, funny, religion, plague, knights templar

revenantdm says:

Amazing what happens when the head of a Church is more powerful than any common monarch! Factoid: More people have died violently in the name of religion than any other type of homicide in world history... At least we now know who to blame for clock-watchers!

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