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   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 03 Feb 2026 07:05:32 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote:   
      
   > ... was probably based on Cecil Rhodes, a bu[s]inessman turned   
   > politician ...   
      
   Calling Cecil Rhodes a “businessman turned politician” is like ... I   
   don’t know ... like referring to Genghiz Khan as a pastoral herder   
   turned tribal chieftain ...   
      
   Remember that the entirety of the territory called “Rhodesia” in his   
   name included both present-day Zimbabwe and South Africa (née   
   “Southern Rhodesia”).   
      
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