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   augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 20:50:25 JST augustus pugin 🌖
   >Asians living in Kenya are descended from South Asian migrants. Significant Asian migration to Kenya began between 1896 and 1901 when some 32,000 indentured labourers were recruited from British India to build the Kenya-Uganda Railway.[22] The majority of Kenyan Asians hail from the Gujarat and Punjab regions.[23] The community grew significantly during the colonial period, and in the 1962 census Asians made up a third of the population of Nairobi and consisted of 176,613 people across the country.[23]
   huh, interesting. let's see how that project turned out
   
   >The Uganda Railway was a
   okay that's all I needed to know, thanks
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 20:53:53 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     True Home of the Big Game Shooter, baby
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 21:02:40 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     >At the turn of the 20th century, the railway construction was disturbed by the resistance by Nandi people led by Koitalel Arap Samoei. He was killed in 1905 by Richard Meinertzhagen, ending the Nandi resistance.[14]
     This man was born into a German banking dynasty that operated in Britain for centuries, what the fuck am I reading
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 21:03:42 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     >In the Kenya Highlands in 1905, Meinertzhagen ended the anti-colonial Nandi Resistance, by killing its leader, the Nandi Orkoiyot (spiritual leader) Koitalel Arap Samoei. He arranged a meeting to negotiate by Koitalel's home on 19 October 1905, at which he planned to kill him. Meinertzhagen shot Koitalel at point-blank range while shaking his hand and his men killed Koitatlel's accompanying entourage, including most of his advisors. It is claimed that he also decapitated Koitalel and sent some of Koitalel's body parts to England. Initially, he had been able to orchestrate a cover-up and was commended for the incident.[16][17][18]
     Nice to meet you old chap, how the devil are y-BANG and that's the end of that nonsense
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 21:13:21 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     I can't get over how Monty Python this scene is, probably lit up a pipe and complained of getting blood on his trouser cuffs
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 21:25:25 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     >Meinertzhagen was a prolific diarist and published four books based on these diaries. However, his Middle East Diary contains entries that are in all probability fictional, including those on T. E. Lawrence and a bit of absurd slapstick concerning Adolf Hitler. In October 1934, Meinertzhagen claimed to have mocked Hitler in response to being "baffled when Hitler raised his arm in the Nazi salute and said, 'Heil Hitler.' After a moment's thought, Meinertzhagen says he raised his own arm in an identical salute and proclaimed, 'Heil Meinertzhagen'."[40]
     this guy
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 21:29:49 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     >In 1928, three months after the birth of Randle, Anne was killed, aged 40, at her birth village of Swordale. The finding, ruled in court, was that she accidentally shot herself in the head with a revolver during target practice alone with Richard.[53]
     this guy's life is nuts. poor girl accidentally fatally shot herself in the head when I wasn't looking, what a pity
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     「セル」cell (سل) (cell@pl.ebin.zone)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 21:30:17 JST 「セル」cell (سل)

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     @augustus Mauritius is quite interesting; majority Indian population by the time they became independent, yet due to practical reasons maintained close unofficial ties to Apartheid South Africa; a nation in which they would have been marginalized
     
     https://archive.ph/MumBG
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 21:31:41 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     @cell I've gone off on a massive wiki tangent but this was the initial thing I was interested in. they can ship them in no problem, but are completely unable to send them back after the railway was built. apparently post-independence things got a little tense for the Indians still living in Kenya
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 21:33:29 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     *blasts you in the face at point blank range*
     sorry about that old boy, railway business, can't be helped
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     「セル」cell (سل) (cell@pl.ebin.zone)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 21:41:01 JST 「セル」cell (سل)

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     @augustus >At Jugnauth's request, PM Indira Gandhi of India planned an armed intervention..
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Lal_Dora
     
     India under Indira Gandhi was something else
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 21:46:42 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     >Meinertzhagen never remarried, however he had a lasting relationship with Tess Clay, more than three decades his junior. If Meinertzhagen and Clay's relationship was "physical" is unknown; Meinertzhagen's friend Victor Rothschild asked Meinertzhagen this outright, but was told "in no uncertain terms to shut up";[70] and a 1951 article in TIME[73] referred to their relationship with "wink-wink, nudge-nudge innuendo".[74]
     this guy shot his wife in the head and then started banging his housekeeper who was 30 years younger than him. truly a man of a different age. an untameable lion.
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 21:48:09 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     Apparently she was also his cousin!
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 21:49:44 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     >Salim Ali noted Meinertzhagen's special hatred for Mahatma Gandhi and his refusal to believe that Indians could govern themselves.[50]
     I love reading about these old British Empire colonial figures and their unapologetic chauvinism
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 21:57:09 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     >The incidents for which the building of the railway may be most noted are the killings of a number of construction workers in 1898, during the building of a bridge across the Tsavo River. Hunting mainly at night, a pair of maneless male lions stalked and killed at least 28 Indian and African workers – although some accounts put the number of victims as high as 135.[15]
     during the night old Perkins here had his leg bitten, sort of, off
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 21:58:07 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     it's not enough trouble when you're building a Kenyan railway that the bloody natives are getting in the way, but now a tribe of lions are eating the railway workers too?
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 22:01:50 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     @wyliesau Meinertzhagen was a man's man, these stories are from a different and completely alien era. his schoolboy japes and military deception to BTFO the Ottomans are the stuff of legend.
     >"His instincts were abetted by an immensely powerful body and a savage brain"
     our current regimes would baulk at the idea of giving men like him a free hand in Kenya. but men like him are needed to run an empire.
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     wyliesau (wyliesau@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 22:01:53 JST wyliesau

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     @augustus

     Thanks for sharing.
     Interesting story.

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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 22:08:19 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     Why didn't they just do a health and safety risk assessment first?
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 22:09:54 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     >The Tsavo Man-Eaters were a pair of man-eating male lions in the Tsavo region of Kenya, which were responsible for the deaths of many construction workers on the Kenya-Uganda Railway between March and December 1898. The lion pair was said to have killed 28 people. While the terrors of man-eating lions were not new in the British public perception, the Tsavo Man-Eaters became one of the most notorious instances of dangers posed to Indian and native African workers of the Uganda Railway.
     
     >"The whole of the works were put to a stop because a pair of man-eating lions appeared in the locality and conceived a most unfortunate taste for our workmen. At last the labourers entirely declined to carry on unless they were guarded by iron entrenchments. Of course it is difficult to work a railway under these conditions and until we found an enthusiastic sportsman to get rid of these lions our enterprise was seriously hindered."
     the two Tsavo lions responsible for eating 30 Indian laborers building the Kenyan railway were shot and are still on display 100 years later in some museum in Chicago
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     『VRISKA』 (vriska@lizards.live)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 22:14:50 JST 『VRISKA』

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     @augustus I've seen them

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     御園はくい (hakui@tuusin.misono-ya.info)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 22:20:01 JST 御園はくい

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     @augustus OSHA: created 1970
     companies 1969 and before:
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 22:20:56 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     @hakui what are you, chicken? it's only a few lions. get in there and build me that railway, sonny
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     御園はくい (hakui@tuusin.misono-ya.info)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 22:21:29 JST 御園はくい

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     @augustus NARRATOR: it seems that they indeed became, chicken
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     CrustyB (crustyb@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 22:24:15 JST CrustyB

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     Field Museum.
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     Griffith (griffith@5dollah.click)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 22:44:16 JST Griffith

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     @augustus that’s fucking brutal tbh
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 22:45:24 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     @Griffith it was just another Tuesday morning for old Meinertzhagen. he had to get back to camp so he could steal more ornithological samples from the british museum and pass them off as his own.
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 22:46:42 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     @Griffith he got some serious heat from it back in London when they found out what he did and they punished him with a shit bureaucracy job for a year before WW1 started and he managed to blag his way out and got a job roving around Palestine. can't keep him down, a man of adventure.
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     Griffith (griffith@5dollah.click)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 22:46:43 JST Griffith

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     @augustus Not sure if I can endorse because that’s insanely dishonorable.
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 22:54:27 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     >Years before, Joseph Chamberlain had proclaimed that, if Britain were to step away from its "manifest destiny", it would by default leave it to other nations to take up the work that it would have been seen as "too weak, too poor, and too cowardly" to have done itself.[18]
     my man, your boy, the greatest British politician ever, Joseph Chamberlain, coming in clutch to save the "Lunatic Express" Kenyan railway from the fools who believed it wasn't worth building simply because a few dozen fellows got eaten by lions during its construction. FROM NAIROBI TO MOMBASA, A NEW CENTURY OF PROSPERITY!
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 22:58:01 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     @Vril_Oreilly @Griffith he was a German banking aristocrat whose family moved to London in 1800 and were friends with the Rothschilds, mad stuff
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     Festive Vrilliam ⛄️ 🎄 (vril_oreilly@comfyboy.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 22:58:02 JST Festive Vrilliam ⛄️ 🎄

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     @Griffith @augustus perfidious Albion