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- I ran the worlds largest DDoS-for-Hire empire and Cloudflare helped https://rasbora.dev/blog/I-ran-the-worlds-largest-ddos-for-hire-empire-and-cloudflare-helped 228 comments
- Top Ten Largest Empires in World History http://yesteeyear.com/2011/07/23/top-ten-largest-empires-in-world-history/ 152 comments history
- Top 10 Largest Empires In World History (by landmass) http://www.worldsbiggests.com/2010/06/top-10-largest-empires-in-world-history.html 51 comments history
- Empire of the Ants David Attenborough (2020) - Beneath David Attenborough (2020) - It is believed to be one of the largest animal societies in the world, where over a billion ants from rival colonies live in peace. [00:59:35] https://youtu.be/7yn9hZb9M2U?si=rto_3oxFSlgm9yaX 19 comments documentaries
- Liberty Media Is World’s Largest Sports Empire - Front Office Sports https://frontofficesports.com/newsletter/why-liberty-media-is-worth-17-2b/ 21 comments formula1
- Sources Say World's Largest Darknet Empire Market Exit Scammed, $30 Million in Bitcoin Stolen https://news.bitcoin.com/sources-say-worlds-largest-darknet-empire-market-exit-scammed-30-million-in-bitcoin-stolen/ 9 comments btc
- World’s Largest Wind Turbine Would Be Taller Than the Empire State Building - Massive, flexible blades would bend with storm winds like the palm trees that inspired them https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/world-rsquo-s-largest-wind-turbine-would-be-taller-than-the-empire-state-building/ 24 comments technology
- Revealed: Cambodia's vast medieval cities hidden beneath the jungle. Laser technology reveals cities concealed under the earth which would have made up the world’s largest empire in 12th century. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/11/lost-city-medieval-discovered-hidden-beneath-cambodian-jungle 4 comments worldnews
- "Rewriting History": Giant Undiscovered Cities Found Buried in Cambodian Jungle by Airborne Lasers, Likely World's Largest Empire in 12th Century https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/11/lost-city-medieval-discovered-hidden-beneath-cambodian-jungle 3 comments worldnews
- A court ruled that a giant Saudi-Arabian business empire was complicit in defrauding more than 100 banks of an estimated $126 billion, in what liquidators called “the largest Ponzi scheme the world has ever seen.” https://www.businessinsider.sg/saudi-business-empire-cayman-ruling-2018-6/?r=uk&ir=t 5 comments worldnews
- Monte Testaccio is an artificial mound in Rome composed almost entirely of fragments of broken pottery dating from the time of the Roman Empire. It is one of the largest spoil heaps found anywhere in the ancient world, covering an area of 20,000 square metres http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/monte_testaccio 8 comments history
- The ghost town surrounded by ocean: The most remote of the British Isles is home to northwest Europe’s largest seabird colony, cliffs taller than the Empire State Building – and to one of the world's eeriest ghost towns http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20161019-the-eeriest-island-in-the-world 16 comments europe
- Mongolia: Rise and fall of an empire (2023) The eastern European and Asian territory captured by a fighting force of united Mongol tribes was the largest contiguous land empire in the history of the world [00:51:55] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRipDEuuiyg 2 comments documentaries
- Inside The ‘World’s Largest’ Video Game Cheating Empire - The cheat-making group known as "Chicken Drumstick" made more than $70 million selling cheats for PUBG Mobile. This is the story of its rise and fall. https://www.vice.com/en/article/93ywj3/inside-the-worlds-largest-video-game-cheating-empire 2 comments technology
- Some lesser known facts about Genghis Khan, who conquered the largest empire in the world to date. Mentions his credit for the first postal system and his support of religious freedom. http://www.history.com/topics/genghis-khan 290 comments history
- Welcome to the (Don’t Be) Evil Empire. "Finally, journalists have started criticizing Google, now the world’s 3rd-largest company in market value. The new round of discussion began even before the revelations that the tech giants were routinely sharing our data with the National Security Agency..." http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175717/tomgram%3A_rebecca_solnit%2C_how_to_act_like_a_billionaire/ 4 comments politics
- TIL Maurya Empire controlled one-third of the world's entire economy, was home to one-third of the world's population at the time (an estimated 50 million out of 150 million human), contained the world's largest city of the time Pataliputra, and at its height it covered an area of 5,000,000 km² http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_pre-modern_great_powers#maurya_empire 143 comments india