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How would you cure a hermaphrodite anyway?
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How would you cure a hermaphrodite anyway?
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This is too good! I think I scared half of my neighborhood with my laughter. 
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How would you cure a hermaphrodite anyway?
*snip* *snip* , *stich* *stich*
I've heard rumours that Swedish queen Christina, daughter of Gustav II Adolf was. Or at least she was mistaken to be boy when she was born.
Ice_Tyrant
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When did the Republicans and Democrats switch names? Like... which election I really haven't got a clue. I have some guesses at when it could be though, but I'm really unsure.
"Switch names"? They didn't really ever switch names...
Ice_Tyrant
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Really? I was sure that back in the old days of Lincoln the republicans of then would be democrats today, and the democrats of then would be republicans today
I can see how you thought that. Lincoln was a pretty swell leader.
The Democrats were the Southerners and the Republicans were dominant in the North, yes. However, this gradually changed over time, so it appears that the two hae been switched.
jessiecat
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Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont (1728-1810) -French diplomat, spy, soldier, famous swordsman who lived the first half of his life as a man and the 2nd half as a woman. Special ambassador to the court in St. Petersburg and London. Allegedly spent 2 years as a maid of honour (and lover) to the Russian Empress Elizabeth. Fought with distinction as a captain of dragoons in the 7 Years War. On his arrival in London about 1770 claimed to be a woman and dressed as one for the rest of his life yet gave fencing demonstrations and fought several duels (in skirts). Probably a sufferer of Kallman's Syndrome, where the body never goes through puberty. At his autopsy in London, witnesed by dozens of people who bet on the outcome, he was finally proven to be male but without any facial or body hair. Not hermaphrodite but pretty close.
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I've quickly looked at the wikipedia article, it left me still wondering. It may be a stupid question: But how could he have been lover if he had not undergone puberty? Or does puberty here only reveal to body hair, change in stature and lowering of the voice?
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I love the prophetic part about them eating without bread or something (forget it now). The battle descriptions are uber tedious---like reading the blow-by-blow of a MMORPG battle.
holy king
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what happened to the osthrogoths after 553?
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also, could market garden have been pulled off successfully?
jessiecat
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The Ostrogoth got conquered by the Byzantine.
With a lot of luck, and correction of all the technical problems and screw-ups, and proper intelligence, it might have been possible. Or if their intelligence had been correct, it may have been possible.
There are many possibilities for the XXX Corps to advance faster (i.e. use alternative crossings at certain rivers), or the paratroopers could have held out more effectively (i.e. better supported, useful radios)
But the entire idea was high risk from the start, and everyone knew it. The biggest problem was the route of advance along one road was just not workable at a decent speed. Not enough forces on the front and flanks wide open and any loss causing significant delays.
They never were a particularly large group, and a lot of them were killed off in the war; after Totila's death, Prokopios says that the remainder of their number (only a coupla thousand) were allowed to leave Italy without let or hindrance. A lot of them went to what's now Austria, and a few others to Visigothic Spain.
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