Posts Tagged ‘ history ’

“The Last Log of the Titanic” (eBook review)

January 15, 2011
“The Last Log of the Titanic” (eBook review)

Saturday Reading The Last Log of the Titanic, © 2001 by David G Brown, published by McGraw-Hill: Available through Amazon.com in eBook format for reading on the Kindle and Kindle App-enabled platforms. Serious examinations of events associated with the Titanic wreck have interested me since the 1970s. Back then there was still the mystique of not knowing with absolute certainty where the ship had ended up, in one piece or two, so to speak. Robert Ballard’s definitive answer to that question was still more than a decade off. And somewhere in that time frame I discovered there were politics...

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How often is it “only a number” with James Bond?

September 1, 2009

As James Bond beds Miranda Frost in Die Another Day (2002), the following bit of dialogue is exchanged. “Mm—” she coos. “This is crazy. You’re a Double-O.” “It’s only a number,” 007 responds. A recent Post to this Blog cites January 15, 1952, as the day on which Ian Fleming first started typing Casino Royale (1952) and thus committed to the creation of the James Bond character. This date is confirmed by Fleming biographers John Pearson and Andrew Lycett. Henry Chancellor disagrees. In his spectacular book, James Bond: The Man and His World (2007), Chancellor sets the date a...

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Dell Deaton

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