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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- King of the Vandals (428–477) who invaded Africa (429), captured Carthage and made it his capital (439), and sacked Rome (455).
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- noun king of the Vandals who seized Roman lands and invaded North Africa and sacked Rome (428-477)
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Examples
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Genseric: After WW2, Japanese prison guards were tried at an international court for torturing - waterboarding - US prisoners of war, and subsequently imprisoned.
George Bush: no escaping torture charges | Katherine Gallagher 2011
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Genseric: Ohhh, so Japanese waterboarding = bad and evil, but our waterboarding = okay?
George Bush: no escaping torture charges | Katherine Gallagher 2011
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Genseric: I'm sure the only reason that Torquemada's victims weren't idly flicking through the paper during the Spanish Inquisition waterboarding sessions was that newspapers hadn't been invented at the time.
George Bush: no escaping torture charges | Katherine Gallagher 2011
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In 428 AD, the title belonged to Geiseric the Lame (or Genseric) who ruled for 50 years and transformed his Germanic tribe into a major Mediterranean power after he invaded North Africa to pillage and plunder.
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That's the state of things today thanks to a modern day Genseric.
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Acer by the Romans, and known to us by the name of Odoacer, had only Herulians in his train, and that Genseric conducted Vandals alone into Africa?
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That's the state of things today thanks to a modern day Genseric.
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Fast forward to today and you get the picture about a modern-day plunderer doing the same thing for much greater stakes than Genseric or Alexander could have imagined.
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In 428 AD, the title belonged to Geiseric the Lame (or Genseric) who ruled for 50 years and transformed his Germanic tribe into a major Mediterranean power after he invaded North Africa to pillage and plunder.
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Fast forward to today and you get the picture about a modern-day plunderer doing the same thing for much greater stakes than Genseric or Alexander could have imagined.
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