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Dec 2022
40m 53s

Apocryphal Maritime Weapons of the Ancie...

Rooster Teeth
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For as long as humans have traveled and battled on the sea, there have been stories of weapons capable of laying waste to ship and sailor alike. Are they real? Do they work? And did they shape the course of history?


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