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Saturday Feb 13, 2010
Built on the highest hill in Athens, this edifice was a treasury in 438 BC. Then the building was turned into a christian church by the Emperor Theodosius; The Franks turned it into catholic church in 1204. Finally the Turks converted it to a mosque in 1458.
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Friday Feb 5, 2010
This vicious ruler's preferred means of execution was impalement. In 1460, he is purported to have impaled 10,000 people in a circular pattern surrounding Transylvania. – Answer at the end.
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Sunday Dec 13, 2009
This pirate and 450 of his men invaded Porto Belo, Panama in 1668. Once the city was sacked, the raping, torturing and murdering continued for 14 days! One of the most horrific invasions in recorded history – the pirates even used Jesuit priests as human shields. – Answer at the end.
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