Rhodes
About Rhodes
Rhodes is the largest of Greece's Dodecanese islands and their historical capital; it is the ninth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Administratively, Rhodes constitutes a separate municipality within the Rhodes regional unit, which is part of the South Aegean administrative region. The principal town of the island and seat of the municipality is the city of Rhodes, home to 50,636 inhabitants according to the 2011 census. By 2022, the island’s population had grown to 125,113 people. Located northeast of Crete and southeast of Athens, Rhodes is often referred to by several nicknames: the "Island of the Sun" after its patron sun god Helios; "The Pearl Island"; and "The Island of the Knights", a reference to the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem, who ruled the island from 1310 to 1522.
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There was a thing called Deportatio in Insulam, which apparently means exile to an island. Sometimes you go to Britain if you've been particularly bad; Tiberius was exiled to Rhodes, which must have been quite nice in comparison.
from No Such Thing As A Sycamore In A Silver Coat, 2024-07-25 at 00:32:43 · read transcript
Other times Rhodes came up
The English found out the war was happening slightly before the Germans. The English just sailed up, opened fire, one shot. The German captain yells, Rhodes, are you drunk? At his friend, who's just over fire on him. One shot battle.
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He did say... There was a piece on him in the New York Times in the 70s when they interviewed him saying, the Colonel is vexed almost beyond endurance by the subject of gravy. One of the executives at KFC said, look, the Colonel's gravy was fantastic, but you had to be a Rhodes scholar to cook it. It was really, really complicated recipe that was way too labour-intensive and expensive.
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He's a classic friend of the podcast, I'd say, in that he served in the First World War. His ship was torpedoed and sank. His obituary was printed, despite him not being dead when that happened. He was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford. He was a football coach before that in his homeland. He was a medical ambassador after all these big discoveries. His sister had a terrible brain cancer and he operated on her to try and save her life.
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Coordinates: 36.1700, 27.9200