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In the episode, Thane referenced the book as the source of his knowledge about the Hashishin, noting that John Ferry had served as its editor. He mentioned the work while describing historical details of assassins and the origins of the term, but did not explicitly recommend it.
Episode: Episode 133
Thane mentioned that John Ferry was an editor for this book, during his confession to the detectives. It was said when he was describing his knowledge of Hashishin and assassins.
so I know something about these stories I mean how full of shit can this guy get? but what it comes down to is this emperor comes to take this fortress and it's just this place in the mountains near Damascus I don't know I can show it to you I'm not bad with geography so what happens is he brings he amasses this large army to come take this place and the old man on the mountain has his Hashishins, his trained assassins they're Islamic people the stories of them were just ridiculous but what happens is he comes to siege the fortress and the night he comes to siege he sends his Hashishins out and they make it all the way to the emperor's tent they don't kill him with a dagger they leave him a note on his bedpost saying that if you don't get the fuck out of here and move your army we're gonna kill you and he was so impressed that they made it there without getting caught that the next day he packed up camp and I mean this is just part of the origins of the word where you get the word assassin and you're right I wanted to be a marine and no one taught me anything I know a couple moves but I prepared myself for years to be a soldier to serve my country
Episode: Episode 133
Thane mentioned having some knowledge of the Hashishin, which stemmed from his reading and knowledge of this book, which John Frary was an editor for.
so I know something about these stories I mean how full of shit can this guy get? but what it comes down to is this emperor comes to take this fortress and it's just this place in the mountains near Damascus I don't know I can show it to you I'm not bad with geography
so I know something about these stories... John Ferry was an editor for the encyclopedia of Byzantine history so he edits the book of this history