I decided to check out a half-remembered story from a long while ago about Edward Heath's travels as a young man. Wiki confirmed it and adds a few more details:
As an undergraduate, Heath travelled widely in Europe. His opposition to appeasement was nourished by his witnessing first-hand a Nuremberg Rally in 1937, where he met leading Nazis Hermann Göring, Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler at an SS cocktail party. He later described Himmler as "the most evil man I have ever met". He was in Germany for two months to learn German, but did not keep up any fluency in the language in later life. In 1938 he visited Barcelona, then under attack from Spanish Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War. On one occasion a car in which he was travelling came under machine-gun fire, whilst on another a bomb hit his hotel whilst he was observing an air raid from outside. In the summer of 1939, accompanied by his Jewish friend Madron Seligman, he travelled to Danzig and Poland. They made the return journey by hitchhiking and rail across Germany through mobilising troops, returning to Britain just before the declaration of war.
A good time to note that Mel Gibson is such a fucking loon that screenwriter Joe Eszterhas wrote a Kindle book about the surreal and frightening experience of working with him, called Heaven and Mel.
A good time to note that Mel Gibson is such a fucking loon that screenwriter Joe Eszterhas wrote a Kindle book about the surreal and frightening experience of working with him, called Heaven and Mel.
How is this dude still a thing in Hollywood after his racist outbursts in the past. Has he got Peado videos on all the Hollywood execs?
How is this dude still a thing in Hollywood after his racist outbursts in the past. Has he got Peado videos on all the Hollywood execs?
He is Bill Cosby level rich. (if that most precise of measures-online net worth estimates can be trusted, after what we learned about donald trump) He can pay for it himself. He Paid $30 million to make passion of the Christ out of his own pocket. It took $600 million at the box office.
The Batman and Spiderman franchises find themselves increasingly short of plots . . .
I am of the view that Darius McCollum's story is a good illustration of the degree to which MTA management simply doesn't "get" transit. Andy Byford would have found a way for him to drive trains (though Andrew Cuomo would have torpedoed that for a photo op).
This image is massively WTF and depressing. The line at the top of Everest because of a clear window of weather and everyone going at the same time. Not sure if it has its own thread.
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