The vagabond king: When 25-year-old Valentine Strasser seized power in Sierra Leone in 1992, he became the world’s youngest head of state. Today he lives with his mother and spends his days drinking gin by the roadside. What went wrong?

alienth · 2012-02-07T21:08:05.097046+00:00

I cannot access /r/foodforthought. I get a 'you broke Reddit' screen every time I try to open the subredddit.

marquis_of_chaos · 2012-02-07T15:08:08.160332+00:00

No, it's just a coincidental title. I got my username from a random name generator, I wasn't expecting to keep it this long.

marquis_of_chaos · 2012-02-07T14:19:09.833835+00:00

Ottilie Ethel Leopoldine "Tilly" Losch, Countess of Carnarvon (15 November 1903 – 24 December 1975) was an Austrian-born dancer, choreographer, actress and painter who lived and worked for most of her life in the United States and United Kingdom.

marquis_of_chaos · 2012-02-07T13:54:36.161876+00:00

An eviction on the land of the Marquis of Clanricarde at Woodford, Co.Galway. Farmer and boatbuilder, Francis Tully, known locally as “Dr Tully”, was an activist for the Plan of Campaign in Galway.

The Plan of Campaign was an attempt to gain lower rents through collective bargaining, because prices for agricultural exports had fallen dramatically in the 1880s. Maud Gonne agitated for change by projecting images like this one onto a building in Parnell Square, Dublin.

marquis_of_chaos · 2012-02-07T11:46:50.451128+00:00

More information can be found on his wikipedia page.

Bonus link: William Thompson the American criminal whose deceptions caused the term "confidence man" to be coined.

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