The 500km Elephant Fence

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"From Aleppo in the North to Gaza in the South an "iron curtain" has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Asia. Baghdad, Jedda, Delhi and Beijing; all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Timurid sphere, and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Timurid influence but to a very high and in some cases increasing measure of control from Elephants."

roll up roll up and see the incredible Venetian blind stopping the Elephants of Timur from invading the holy land

see as the greedy beasts stick their trunks into the peanut-filled forts and are roasted by flaming catapult ammo for their trouble...

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this is what I did while I waited for Columbus to get his act together