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Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum

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The Cup Bearer and the Death of Alexander the Great

No one to this day can say definitively why theories abound in all directions from the natural to the unnatural. There has always been a tradition that Alexander was assassinated, poisoned. The drinking is long term and chronic and still at very high levels. I mean, you can look at it and go. This is a guy with major war wounds that probably began to take its toll. It could be an accumulation of things. The beacon is immune system and the West Nile virus gets him. Revenge of the Persian Empire through the mosquito.

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