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V-Day Alternative: Celebrate the Mughal Empire

February 14, 2012 12:00 AM
Uzbekistan has canceled Valentine's Day, what it deems a 'lightweight, artificial event,' according to the BBC, and instead opted to celebrate the birthday of a conquering descendant of Genghis Khan, one who occasionally beheaded his enemies and stacked the heads into towers. He was also a poet.
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