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History of Westeros (Game of Thrones)

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Is There a Mongol Story?

Shakespeare, like King Lear, it's that story, right? And then incidentally, for people who have never seen it, there's a fantastic movie by legendary Japanese director, Akira Kurosawa, called Ran. And Ran is a Japanese version of the King Lear story. There's this famous one that supposedly is an anecdote that I'm sure is not the only guy who ever did it, but there's supposedly a Mongol story that's tied to this about this breaking of the arrow.

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