General Tso's Chicken

Dustbury has an interesting story about how this Chinese dish came to be Chinese. How the General his own self got to be famous is another story:

The Taiping Rebellion was a widespread civil war in southern China from 1850 to 1864, led by heterodox Christian convert Hong Xiuquan, who, having received visions, maintained that he was the younger brother of Jesus Christ, against the ruling Manchu-led Qing Dynasty. About 20 million people died, mainly civilians, in one of the deadliest military conflicts in history. 

And here I thought the 20th Century had a lock on "deadliest".

Via Dustbury, Nancy and Wikipedia.