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It all makes sense :V

posted by [personal profile] elanya at 04:36pm on 01/12/2007 under ,
L. Ron Hubbard claimed to be the reincarnation of Cecil Rhodes. He even tried to give Rhodesia a constitution. Not that Rhodesia was asking :V They kicked him out.
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Great quote re: Rhodes

posted by [personal profile] elanya at 04:27pm on 24/11/2007 under
“What a man, what an incredible megalomaniac barbarian, and what nasty little henchmen he gathered around him!”

-Anthony Atmore, Review: Lobengula and Rhodes, The Journal of African History 10(4):384
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Cecil Rhodes - "I may have a tiny penis, but I own half of Africa!"

posted by [personal profile] elanya at 09:08pm on 06/11/2007 under , ,
Even now, in his speeches and the reports of his conversation, you can still catch an echo of that preoccupation with size itself, with magnitude as the garment of power. Some recent commentators have hinted that personal inadequacies in Rhodes might have been the cause of this fascination.

- William Rayner, The Tribe and its Successors, p.136.

I *did* mention that he never touched a woman, right?
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