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  1. LakeEffect replied to the thread The Man Who Would Be King: James Brooke and the White Rajahs of Sarawak.

    It's also an entertaining movie starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine. I should read the original Kipling story. A favorite local...

    Aug 24, 2026 at 8:24 AM

  2. LakeEffect liked The Meat man's post in the thread The Man Who Would Be King: James Brooke and the White Rajahs of Sarawak.

    Thanks Alurid! The Man Who Would Be King was a short story, about two former British soldiers who decided to try to carve a kingdom out...

    Aug 24, 2026 at 8:21 AM

  3. LakeEffect liked The Meat man's post in the thread The Man Who Would Be King: James Brooke and the White Rajahs of Sarawak.

    Here's a coin I recently picked up, with a fascinating history steeped in the British colonial adventurism of the 18th and 19th...

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  4. LakeEffect liked Carl Wilmont's post in the thread Ionia, Miletos.

    Yes,and what a big, 8-syllable, tongue-twisting name for such a spec of a coin: Hemitetartemorion!! Here's how junior fits into his...

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