Does anyone know if Alexander

come on, John, true history and reality don't sell in the theater. Dying of typhoid fever isn't the heroic or romantic ending that patrons want to see. You have to give the crowd what they want or they go elsewhere.

Wow, that was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. It was like watching scrambled gay porn and an A&E biography at the same time. Wow.

good, i'm glad it's living up to expectations because even if it was good i didn't want to pay 7.50 for it. Does he die of Typhoid Fever?

Technically he dies of Typhoid fever.
Spoiler for the movie ahead as if any of you cared....

The guy narrating the whole movie (Anthony Hopkins) says, and I quote, "historians and the like say that he died of typhoid fever, but I know the truth. We poisoned him." or something like that.
Anthony tells the story as one of Alexander's old friends forty years after his death and he says that him and some buddies poisoned Alexander because he was becomming too ambitious, or along those lines. I was nausiated by this point in the movie and only connected certain parts. Instead of going out to the people and saying hey, we poisoned him, they said, hey, he died of typhoid fever. Bloody Macedonians and their espionage.

the nerd that I am, i was watching Discovery Channel and they were talking about what really killed Alexander. Their opinion was that he was originally sick, and as was the medicine then, they gave him some plant root. But as he was still sick, he took more and more. The bad thing was that this root was deadly in large quantities. The concluded that a combination of Alexanders weakened state from his multiple battle wounds and mental state from losing his horse, and ignorant medicine is what caused Alexanders death, the doctors poisoned him with no intent of murder.

Just something different to think about.

Well, personally I know my 8th grade history teacher told us that he died of malaria. But I read an article much later that said it was always in debate, malaria, posion, and others. But, they could never explain why he was dead for three days before he started to decay (or something like that). This article was that a guy was proposing that with typhoid fever, the victim will show all signs of rigor mortis without actually being fully dead yet. Or something.

Either way, I'll catch the movie in ten years when it premieres edited on CBS.

Oh yeah, this is the same teacher that told me that Carthage had salt sown into the fields and later grant uncovered from his history books that this was just a myth or something. Maybe he remembers.

So jordan, I hear you're a man-slut now. How's that working out for ya? ;)

And I know nothing of Alexander's freaky diseases. Not nearly as dramatic as wiping an entire civilization from the face of the earth simply for the sake of revenge. Oh, those Romans. Always up to something.

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Grant, where do these vile rumors come from! By the way, it's working out wonderfully.

hey, if you all need a laugh, visit this guy's xanga: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=PuShin_MiRaCLe_WhiPz

he started some crap with a friend of mine, so now my whole floor is just dogging on this guy, quite the good laugh. I'm both TheRevBiggDawg and SuthernCumfort. feel free to ride this guy, you'll want to after you see him.

ha, never mind, found the source of the pictures, guy's just a prank, still fun though

see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll

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that seems like an intellectual person wanting to stimulate people into new thinking. Does that same definition, you think, apply to someone who just like to get a rise out of people? No particular end, no wanting to educate, just pissing people off for the sake of it? Does internet troll still apply?

eh, perhaps "Flamebait" applies more, but yes, people like that are trolls.