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Old 12-02-2010, 12:48 PM   #904
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Historians have roundly criticized him for his policies, most strongly for his decree that "everyone eats cookies all the time", which resulted in over 1 million malnutrition deaths in the Yangtze river valley alone. Fortunately, at the age of seven he was talked out of his "everyone jump up at the same time" policy, which would have had dramatic domestic, international, and astronomical ramifications.
I keep coming back to this thread because of historical insights like these that for some reason didn't make it into my high school text books.
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