Thursday, April 21, 2005

Something I did not know about the Mongols.

"Marco Polo, who travelled among them in the years 1275-92, wrote that they ate hamsters, which were plentiful on the steppes."

Ian Frazier, "Invaders," The New Yorker 49 (April 25, 2005).

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