Friday, December 6, 2013

Landmarks

If you do enough stuff, someone may put up a statue of you.

In this case, its a statue of Norodom Sihanouk. I haven't actually seen the Guinness Book of World Records entry, but Sihanouk is reportedly in the book with a world record for largest numbers of important posts held in one country.

He was Prince, King, Prince again, Prime Minister then King (again). Go figure. He was also an amazing political opportunist. In his spare time, when he was not wrapped up in Cambodian political intrigue, he made films, played three instruments, composed and performed jazz, and had a bunch of wives and concubines with whom he produced a passel of kids.

Several of his sons, who despised and tried to kill each other, went on to make Cambodian politics even more complicated, if that is possible.

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