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Fire and Sword: Thermal Weapons Set the Ancient World Ablaze
One only has to imagine what it would be like to witness cities devoured by flames, see fleets of ships sinking, their sails ablaze, or behold screaming victims doused in boiling pitch to begin to comprehend the deadly efficacy of ancient thermal...
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