Agaricus bisporus. No cheap shot was intended, just an historical pointer and a piece of topical advice all rolled in to one. Kitchener had the grave of the Mahdi, the Sudanese leader, dug up. He burnt the body and quite possibly had the bones thrown in to the Nile while sending the skull to London. Some say that Queen Victoria was mightily upset at this and that she had the skull buried. He had two of the Mahdi's sons and his son in law arrested and summarily shot on charges of trying to reinstate the Mahdia. History would have them as having been innocent. This all happened in 1898, not so long ago for long memories. Kitchener may be a hero to some but Khartoum is none the less possibly not the place for a picture of him over one's bed. Of course the man went on to play a significant role in WWI as the officer in charge of recruitment for the trenches. It rather seems as though he caught unnecessary flak for the Gallipoli fiasco for reluctantly supporting Churchill and he drowned in 1916, sunk with a warship, presumably before his true potential could be evidenced.
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