Posted on 06/19/2023 8:36:51 AM PDT by DFG
Which author stated that?
I know it to be true but whovhad the guts to say it.
Charles Bronson (born Charles Dennis Buchinsky) was the son of a Lithuanian immigrant father and the 11th of 15 children. He started working in the mines at age 10 when his father died. He earned $1 for every ton of coal mined. He did not speak English growing up. Besides English, he could also speak Lithuanian, Russian and Greek.
In 1943, Buchinsky joined the US Army Air Forces. He flew 25 missions as a B-29 gunner in combat missions over Japan with the 61st Bombardment Squadron in Guam.
The film, now celebrating its 60th anniversary...
Who can ever keep up?! I was just about to run out the door.
Wikipedia:
Release dates
June 20, 1963 (London)
July 4, 1963 (United States)
Running time 172 minutes
I didn't even think to check that when I wrote on the 12th:
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Normally Moses is made analogous to a fish. Joshua being the "son of Nun"; i.e. disciple of Moses the nun, fish. Yet Moses' bride was... a bird. Nobody'd noticed the mixed species issue? I don't know, but sometime back I went in the direction of waterfowl, because Moses was drawn out of the water. That's when I found the diving duck named the Greater scaup.
See, it's not just a movie starring Steve McQueen.
Weaving, and the beginning of the 42 "Stations of the Exodus"
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Or on the 16th, re 172:
"Those familiar with the material on inner.org would know that formatting drops out, notably the superscripts, which makes for some interesting reading. For example:"
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Of course, for the sake of brevity I had left out the number of scruples:
Apothecaries' Weight: US (UK pre 1824)
5,760 grains = 288 scruples = 96 drams = 12 ounces = 1 pound
https://pharmacytechniciantoday.com/certification-exam-review/11-apothecaries-avoirdupois-metric-measurement-systems/
(ounce אונקיה) = 172
Observance really is key, Juneteenth, 528: 'ג'וּנְטִינְת = key מפתח
... otherwise folks would miss the Great Escape!
And that's no joke! Remember the answering machine that was *the* codebreaker in Sneakers?
Cryptography systems are based on mathematical problems...
...so complex they cannot be solved without a key.Janek* figured out a way to solve those problems without the key...
...and he hard-wired it into that chip.- Turn it off.
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No more secrets.
Honey, you and Melissa get your things.
Melissa is a female given name. The name comes from the Greek word μέλισσα (mélissa), "bee",[1] which in turn comes from μέλι (meli), "honey".[2][3] In Hittite, melit signifies "honey".[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa
*Janek
(colloquial) a diminutive of the male given name Jan
(derogatory) Alternative form of janek ("fool")
It's like the luck of the Irish:
"During the gold and silver rush years in the second half of the 19th century, a number of the most famous and successful miners were of Irish and Irish American birth... Over time this association of the Irish with mining fortunes led to the expression 'luck of the Irish.'
"Of course, it carried with it a certain tone of derision, as if to say, only by sheer luck, as opposed to brains, could these fools succeed."
https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/phrase-luck-of-the-irish
Remember that poor fool in the Bible named Naval? Poor Abigail. Well anyway, Naval [נבל] means fool, but "נבל" will also take you over here "on the half shekel", for the atonement of souls.
🍿🤓🍿
Shamrock ☘️ Not to be confused with 🍀 Four Leaf Clover, though their applications may overlap.
(Okay now I'm out the door..)
Why send everyone to yahoo instead of to the actual source?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/the-great-escape-steve-mcqueen-true-story-stalag-luft/
I disagree with the author that there was no duty for a prisoner to try to escape. It may not have been part of an actual sworn oath, but the duty to continue opposing the enemy was still there. I also disagree with the implication that the Great Escape was some kind of futile gesture. It caused the Germans to devote significant resources to recapturing the escapees.
Hollywood rarely gets the real story right, especially if it’s true. Even worse if it’s fiction.
Producers and directors want romance and mass appeal, so they include as much femininity-appealing stuff as they can cram in.
There are several books I have read, fiction and non-fiction that Hollywood has butchered on film.................
True. I took particular exception to that one, though, because it would have made such a great movie.
No one said it about Hidden Figures. I just stole the line the guy used for the Great Escape article and wondered if anyone would have the guts to do the same for Hidden Figures.
James Garner had a pretty extraordinary war record, joining the Merchant Marine at 16 in WWII and then the National Guard, and then 14 months as a rifleman in the Korean War.
Combat Infantry Badge
Purple Heart
National Defense
Service Medal
Korean War
Service Medal
Merchant Marine
Combat Medal
Merchant Marine
Atlantic War Zone Medal
Merchant Marine
World War II Victory Medal
United Nations
Service Medal for Korea
United States Army
Presidential Unit Citation
Republic of Korea
Presidential Unit Citation
It was “white men doing heroic things” that defeated the Axis in WWII!!!!
So I had to go to and read the article to find out that the “repellent, horrible truth” was that the scene at the end was somewhat grislier and more awful than it actually was? Deceptive headline.
Anyway, it’s nice to commemorate the picture — probably the one movie that I saw the most times in the course of my life — and indirectly commemorate the real prison escapees.
One of my all time favorite movies, but as I recall, all the Americans were transferred out of the camp before the escape occurred.
Also, Donald Pleasence, on 31 August 1944, his Lancaster NE112 was shot down during an attack on Agenville, and he was captured and imprisoned in the German prisoner-of-war camp Stalag Luft I.
Funny that they made Lithuanian/Tatar Charles Bučinskis/Buchinsky/Bronson the American, and All-American Samantha Stevens the Russian.
He would have escaped in real life, but his glasses were broken.
Walters’ book is critical of Bushell for pushing forward with an operation that was “unsound, doomed, dangerous and superfluous to the war effort”.
I would disagree. If I were a prisoner, I would welcome any offer of hope via an escape plan regardless of the potential outcome.
In a POW camp, without hope, men just give up and accept death......
:-)
I liked his character in The Cincinnati Kid.
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