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Old 06-13-2015, 09:25 AM   #547
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On this day in 323 BC Alexander the Great died in Babylon at the age of 33. One wonders how the flow of Western history might differ today had he been content with an empire that stretched from the Danube to the Nile and the Tigris and Euphrates, and had he not attempted a bridge too far by forging on to the Oxus and the Indus.

On the plus side, he at least outlived Bucephalus.
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