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His actions were mostly a fortuitous accident rather than intentional, with his disarming actions being very much a bit of natural self preservation. As time goes by, the truth will get lost in a good story.

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August 1975 August 1: Hank Williams scores his first chart topping hit in over a decade with LPs and new cassette tapes of Lonesome Boy , a doleful duet with Dolly Parton, selling by the thousands and tens of thousands across the United States as country and western fans relish his comeback record....

Coming up in August 1975: - Jackie Chan helps foil a Hang Seng armoured car robbery - Some moves start in the Association of University Teachers in Britain - Strange happenings in the Comoros - The Japanese Red Army make a very big mistake - Hank Williams tops the charts - John Walker breaks the wor...

There are no retreats when in Paris behind any fronts, and any sort of significant wound is going to be troublesome, but not result in capture.

Like a firing squad, I aim to please. This latest chapter was a fair bit more delayed than I had planned, due to a busy period at work, juggling other bits and pieces of writing, getting sidetracked by some older games, the strange human habit called sleep, and the basic part that having to explain ...

When one has a long list of unfair and unnatural advantages, not using them to the full would be an interesting approach. The world is not an artificially levelled playing field.

July 1975 Notes - Winstanley is quite an interesting low budget film, and would be different here in the absence of the ECW - Central Comman gets an earlier start, existing parallel to the nascent JRDTF rather than being its successor - Air travel is not heading in a deregulated race for the bottom ...

The Cards Reshuffled 5 Mr. Edmund Blackadder, a black haired fellow of middling height and seemingly possessed of a permanent sardonic grimace, nodded as he arose. "The challenge of the coming decades and centuries is one where Britain's economy and trade played a key part in its strength, but...

The coffee crop blight is an entirely historical and natural event, so any war would be in the manner of Caligula. Danko, like most Moscow detectives, is rather aggressive about cocainum, which has seen a surprising increase in the last two years even as the coca plant is progressively controlled in...

July 1975 July 1: Release of Winstanley , an English period drama set in the reign of King Charles I, telling the story of the radical social reformer Gerald Winstanley and the 'True Leveller' or Digger movement, who sought to cultivate common land in 1650s England, their suppression, and the event...

Dark Earth Crime and Punishment 1973 90 murders (7 in Midsomer) 8 kidnappings 198 rapes 64 drug trafficking 4 treachery 87 manslaughter 324 attempted murder 219 cause death by dangerous driving 127 child cruelty 192 procurement of illegal abortion 1043 indecent assault 256 indecent exposure 247 ani...

Thank you kindly. July 8 came from me rewatching The Boys from Brazil and pondering over what would happen in a scenario like that here, albeit a slightly different one given that Mengele danced Danny Deever in 1946, with the twist about an Israel based boarding school being suitably nice to mess wi...

I did like evoking the imagery of Treasury officials increasingly exasperated at new military spending, to the point of lunacy and fainting.

A sneak preview of July 1975: July 8: Interpol investigators, operating in conjunction with Nazi hunters Ezra Lieberman and Simon Wiesenthal and British intelligence, uncover evidence of some sort of ODESSA operation aimed at the murder of 94 seemingly innocuous men across Europe, Southern Africa, A...

Dark Earth Films Best Picture 1946: The Lost Weekend/Billy Wilder/Ray Milland/Joan Crawford/Robert Mitchum/Angela Lansbury 1947: Henry V/Frank Capra/Laurence Olivier/Celia Johnson/Harold Russell/Anne Baxter 1948: Great Expectations/David Lean/Ronald Colman/Loretta Young/Edmund Gwenn/Ethel Barrymore...

I remember seeing the Count Dankula comedic video about Purple Aki. Any death is an individual tragedy, but this one seems very individual.

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The bar is inviting. We have both types of music here - Country and Western.

Hopefully Bertorelli has as impressive an array of medals as his grandfather: "The first row are for service in Abyssinia. The second row are for service in North Africa". “And the last row?” "They are for servicing Fiats!" :D My favourite TLW chapters are when we really get to g...

Major Weapons Systems of the Great Powers (Part the First) USA A.) Tanks The frontline American main battle tank is the M70 Marshall, a 67 ton beast in production since late 1968. It is protected by the frontal equivalent of 37.8"/960mm against HEAT and 30"/762mm against APFSDS through it...