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    Vatican vs Russian Empire

    On March 13th, 2007 at the Roman Curia (at the Vatican), Russian President Putin had talks with Pope Benedict XVI for the first time. According to the ANSA News Agency, the two men discussed repairing the relationship between the Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches, who have for many years been antagonistic to each other.
    But in that afternoon, near the Colosseum in downtown Rome, large-scale fighting broke out. The chances that President Putin and Pope Benedict XVI joined the fight were high, and clashes between the Russian Spetsnaz special forces and the Vatican's exorcist squadron were witnessed by local people.
    Local resident Mr. P introduced himself, "I'm actually from France," then continued, "I've thought the heads of these organizations were the strongest for a long time, but really their strength exceeded my expectations. You guys think I don't know what I'm talking about. Indeed, I don't know what's going on at all...."
    The battles came to an end after about an hour, it seems like both Spetsnaz and the Vatican suffered casualties.
    Yet both President Putin and Pope Benedict XVI declined to comment on the situation, and the silence continues as it has in the past. (I wonder if someone could make me this kind of game...)

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    davicoz
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    lolin86 said:
    Im the only one who thought into "guns the duel" when saw this? I know its old, outdated and gets boring fast, but yeah

    The dash.
    Also later Putin takes that sword, trows the pope into the air and shoots him to dead...very "gunz the duel" like

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    • Abyssal Bleakness
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    eonash said:
    Why would the pope know alchemy?

    An early pope named Honorius III (r. 1216 - 1227), is reputed to have written a grimoire, and as the leader of the Roman Catholic church in Europe (and thus controlling a monopoly on most forms of education at the time), there is a fair chance he did do so, though no official statement from the Vatican nor any known investigator (at least known to me), has ever surfaced regarding with certainty whether or not he did it.

    If he did write such a book, there is a fair chance that it, if it is still extant, is somewhere in the Private Libraries of the Vatican, which would meet the current pope would almost certainly have access to it if he wanted to read it.

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    Abyssal_Bleakness said:

    An early pope named Honorius III (r. 1216 - 1227), is reputed to have written a grimoire, and as the leader of the Roman Catholic church in Europe (and thus controlling a monopoly on most forms of education at the time), there is a fair chance he did do so, though no official statement from the Vatican nor any known investigator (at least known to me), has ever surfaced regarding with certainty whether or not he did it.

    If he did write such a book, there is a fair chance that it, if it is still extant, is somewhere in the Private Libraries of the Vatican, which would meet the current pope would almost certainly have access to it if he wanted to read it.

    We might find out soon, with plans for an online archive pushing through:

    A Japanese information technology company has agreed to digitize 3,000 Vatican manuscripts in a deal to make some of the Catholic Church's most historic documents available online.

    The Vatican Apostolic Library says it hopes Thursday's announced agreement with Tokyo-based NTT DATA Corp. would protect fragile manuscripts for perusal by scholars worldwide.

    NTT DATA said it would digitize 3,000 manuscripts totaling 1.5 million pages over the next four years in a contract worth 18 million euros ($22.6 million).

    The company's president, Toshio Iwamoto, told a Vatican press conference he hoped NTT ultimately would make 82,000 manuscripts totaling 41 million pages accessible by computer.

    The Vatican Library, founded in 1451, is one of the world's most important research libraries. It has 180,000 manuscripts, 1.6 million books and 150,000 prints, drawings and engravings.

    Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-03-japanese-firm-digitize-vatican-manuscripts.html#jCp

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    • Alceister
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    Shaomu said:

    Spetsnaz? Suffering casualties? I don't get it.

    Two words: Swiss Guard.

    Those fellas with the frilly morions and the clown pants?

    They're all packing MP7's. Also, don't be so quick to disregard the advantages of fighting on home ground.

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    Alceister said:

    Two words: Swiss Guard.

    Those fellas with the frilly morions and the clown pants?

    They're all packing MP7's. Also, don't be so quick to disregard the advantages of fighting on home ground.

    They are also Swiss. Those guys are tough customers.

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