Some speculate that this "merry old soul" of nursery rhyme fame was based on a real king of 3rd century Britain
The film is set in the twenty-third century when a mysterious and immensely 
powerful... [DOC] [TLE] OOLAC - #3rd-century_monarchs_in_Europe - OOLAC   [PAR] 3rd-century_monarchs_in_Europe - Carausius, Domitianus II, Old King Cole, ... 
support from the army when his command had been sea-based, and speculates 
that he had ... in the last decades of the first century BC, not in Rome but in Britain
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