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| rdfs:comment | - The Lotus Eaters was a posh nightclub. It was one of several clubs owned by Shanghai-based crimelord, Lao Che, who also owned Club Obi Wan. In 1933, Indiana Jones first met Lao Che and his sons at the club and feigned interest in buying one of the funeral urns on display for a museum to recover the ashes of Wu Han's family.
- The group take their name from a Greek mythological race living on an island dominated by lotus plants whose fruits and flowers were narcotic, causing the people to sleep in peaceful apathy.
- The Lotus Eaters (also named as Lotophagi or Lotophaguses) were a race of people from an island near North Africa, filled with lotus plants. The plants are narcotic and addictive, causing people to sleep in peaceful apathy. Those that ate the lotus plant lost all their will and memory. They are famous for their part in the Odyssey, where two of Odysseus' men had to be dragged back to the ship by him because of the plants' effects. Aeneas also passed through their region a few times on his journey's.
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| abstract | - The Lotus Eaters was a posh nightclub. It was one of several clubs owned by Shanghai-based crimelord, Lao Che, who also owned Club Obi Wan. In 1933, Indiana Jones first met Lao Che and his sons at the club and feigned interest in buying one of the funeral urns on display for a museum to recover the ashes of Wu Han's family.
- The group take their name from a Greek mythological race living on an island dominated by lotus plants whose fruits and flowers were narcotic, causing the people to sleep in peaceful apathy.
- The Lotus Eaters (also named as Lotophagi or Lotophaguses) were a race of people from an island near North Africa, filled with lotus plants. The plants are narcotic and addictive, causing people to sleep in peaceful apathy. Those that ate the lotus plant lost all their will and memory. They are famous for their part in the Odyssey, where two of Odysseus' men had to be dragged back to the ship by him because of the plants' effects. Aeneas also passed through their region a few times on his journey's.
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