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comment by kleinbl00

I wholeheartedly recommend a historical atlas. They're great for perspective. It's worth noting that the Iraq War was basically the Invasion of California (from a perspective of geographical equivalency) and that London, during the reign of Henry VIII, had a population of 50,000 people... making the Plantagenet Succession the modern equivalent of a particularly bloody rural city council meeting.

Behold: The Gaza Strip.





OftenBen  ·  2812 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Fuck me.

The dirt there has probably been turned by bombs more than plows at this point.

kleinbl00  ·  2812 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well... the bombs are recent. The Cartoon History of the Universe argued that it was the bloodiest little stretch of land in the history of mankind so...