On this Day

[Beanz]

Nice post, that Iron lady was a bitch.

Cheers Master and yes she was. I know you like your five a side but did you play much Cricket when you were growing up ?

[Beanz]

Did anyone watch the Yul Bryner 1959 Manchurian Candidate Video on youtube ? This was annotated below it

Famous (Soviet Moravian) Access Agents | Yul Brynner was born Yuliy Borisovich Bryner in 1920. He exaggerated his background and early life for the press, claiming that he was born Taidje Khan of part-Mongol-Tatar parentage, on the Russian island of Sakhalin. In reality, he was born at home in a four-story residence at 15 Aleutskaya Street, Vladivostok, in the Far Eastern Republic (present-day Primorsky Krai, Russia). He also occasionally referred to himself as Julius Briner, Jules Bryner, or Youl Bryner.

His father, Boris Yuliyevich Bryner, was a mining engineer whose father, Jules Bryner, was Swiss, and whose mother, Natalya Iosifovna Kurkutova, was a native of Irkutsk and was partly of Buryat Mongol ancestry.

He was also a Romani on his mother's side, and in 1977, he was named Honorary President of the International Romani Union, an office that he kept until his death.

Brynner's declaration of intention form for naturalization in the United States from 1943

After Boris Bryner abandoned his family, his mother took Yul and his sister, Vera Bryner, to Harbin, China, where they attended a school run by the YMCA. In 1934 she took them to Paris. By 1940, Brynner had returned to China and he emigrated from Dairen aboard the S.S. President Cleveland, arriving in the U.S. October 25, 1940. During World War II, Brynner worked as a French-speaking radio announcer and commentator for the U.S. Office of War Information, broadcasting propaganda to occupied France.
Yul Brynner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Basic agents can be formed into groups with leaders, or report directly to the controller. Also in the basic group are "executive agents", who will kill or commit sabotage, and recruiting agents. In US practice, recruiting agents are called access agents.

Both operation leaders and the supplementary group must be clandestine in support roles to basic agents. They may be clandestine officers of the FIS, such as Rudolf Abel, recruited in the target country, or recruited in a third country.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clandest...

Solomon and Sheba is a 1959 Biblical epic film made by Edward Small Productions and distributed by United Artists. The film stars Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_...

In America, Anita Ekberg met Howard Hughes. Ekberg was romantically linked to Tyrone Power, Marcello Mastroianni, Errol Flynn, Yul Brynner, Frank Sinatra and Gary Cooper; she also had a three-year affair with Fiat chairman Gianni Agnelli.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Ek...

The Gemstone File is a series of documents by the American writer Bruce Porter Roberts (1919--1976). It also posits that early in 1957, Aristotle Onassis had Howard Hughes kidnapped from his Beverly Hills Hotel bungalow; that Hughes suffered a massive brain injury during the forcible kidnapping, and that Hughes was subsequently a virtual prisoner of Onassis on Skorpios and injected regularly with morphine, while Onassis took over the operation of Hughes's considerable financial affairs, including airlines and U.S. defense contracting.

"Hughes" (i.e., Onassis acting as "Hughes") suddenly became a major purchaser of Las Vegas casinos, in line with Onassis's previous gambling operations in pre-Castro Cuba and in Monaco.
One controversial aspect of the Gemstone File is its portrayal of Onassis as the main force behind the election of John F. Kennedy as President, and subsequently, Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
When Robert F. Kennedy decided to run for the Presidency, Aristotle Onassis ordered that he be assassinated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemstone...

Einar Riis - agent, fighter pilot, consul
Einar Riis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Broderskapets Kirke (senere kalt Unitarisk Samfund) er knyttet til den kristne unitarisme som oppsto i Transilvania på 1500-tallet.
http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristofe...

The Order of the Dragon (Latin Societas Draconistrarum)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of...

Ernő László
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ern%C5%9...

Former KGB chief takes job with Nato
Sandor Laborc, aged 49, who trained with the Russian secret service's elite at Moscow's Dzerzhinsky Academy from 1983 to 1989
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/world...

[Beanz]

And Rich @Dia bando what is going with your hair here mate ? I know it was 1975 but really ?

[Master]

Nice post, that Iron lady was a bitch.

Cheers Master and yes she was. I know you like your five a side but did you play much Cricket when you were growing up ?

Read the article about Sachin started his career in 1989 at 16 and retiring. Great bats man.

[Beanz]

On this Day

October 13

1925

American Comedian Lenny Bruce is Born




1958

On this day in 1958 the iconic character of English children’s books, Paddington Bear, made his debut in the first book in the series: ‘A Bear Called Paddington’. He has since appeared in over twenty books. The books were written by Michael Bond, who based the character on a lone teddy bear he saw on a shelf in a shop near Paddington Station on Christmas Eve 1956. In his first appearance, the bear is discovered by the Brown family in Paddington Station in London, thus giving him his name.




1948

Sufi Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is born. Shahensha-e-Qawwali (The King of Kings of Qawwali).

May the Blessings of God rest upon you, May God's Peace abide with you, May God's Presence illuminate your hearts, Now and forever more.

[Andre]

1984

Kathryn Sullivan becomes first women to walk talk in space.

(must have been a typo).

[Beanz]

On this Day

October 14

There are 78 days left till the end of the year

1969

The British introduce the 50p coin to replace the ten shilling note


1982

Reagan declares War on Drugs

2012

Yes it has been a year since Felix Baumgartner did this