On Sep 4, 2008, at 7:48 AM, Charles Bennett wrote:
> On Sep 3, 2008, at 5:09 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:
>
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>> http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL148259220080901?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0
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>
> It's good to be king.
I'm reminded of a passage from a book (slightly paraphrased):
. . . the ambassador of Kublai Khan reported that the Khmer capital
had
a strong government and had become wealthy from rice paddies
and hard work
and that the king displayed high moral standards, having five
wives,
“one special one, and four others for the cardinal points of
the compass”,
with some 4,000 concubines, presumably for more precise
compass readings . . .
———— Helen Churchill Candee, Angkor the Magnificent
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