The Red Baron was the name applied to Manfred von Richthofen, a German fighter pilot who was the deadliest flying ace of World War I.
During a 19-month period between 1916 and 1918, the Prussian aristocrat shot down 80 Allied aircraft
He won widespread fame for his scarlet-colored airplanes and ruthlessly effective flying style.
Richthofens legend only grew after he took command of a German fighter wing known as the Flying Circus
His career in the ****pit was cut short in April 1918, when he was killed in a dogfight over France.
sandman55 said
09:33 PM Sep 5, 2020
Thanks Tony, now who is this guy
EDIT: the file name should be showing properly and it is only showing .jpg and what is missing is KTO R only the R should be shown back to front to give the file name as a clue and the servers here won't print it. I was hoping you smart people would mouse over the pic and see the file name and get Google to translate it. They are not initials.
-- Edited by sandman55 on Saturday 5th of September 2020 09:40:01 PM
-- Edited by sandman55 on Saturday 5th of September 2020 09:50:47 PM
Thought he'd be gone by now. Surely that's Alexei Navalny, Putins' latest victim ?
sandman55 said
06:23 PM Sep 6, 2020
You've got him Sheba Alexei Navalny, Putins' latest victim, a very brave man to take on Putin. Over to you for a pic
Alexei Anatolievich Navalny (Russian: , IPA: [lksej ntoljvt nvalnj]; born 4 June 1976) is a Russian opposition politician and anti-corruption activist. He came to international prominence by organizing demonstrations, and running for office, to advocate reforms against corruption in Russia, Russian PresidentVladimir Putin, and Putin's government. Navalny was described as "the man Vladimir Putin fears most".[2] Putin is said to avoid directly referring to Navalny by name.[3]
Navalny was a Russian Opposition Coordination Council member and the leader of the opposition political Progress Party.[4] In September 2013, he ran in the Moscow mayoral election, supported by the RPR-PARNAS party. He came in second, with 27% of the vote, losing to incumbent mayor Sergei Sobyanin, a Putin appointee. Navalny claimed election fraud and that he actually received more votes.[5] Navalny became well known through his LiveJournal blog, but later switched to YouTube, where he has four million subscribers, and Twitter, where he has 2.2 million followers.[6][7] Through these channels he published videos and documents about corruption by Russian state officials, organized political demonstrations and promoted his campaigns for office. He has also been active in other media. In a 2011 radio interview he described Russia's ruling party United Russia as a "party of crooks and thieves", which became a popular epithet.[8] He created the Anti-Corruption Foundation in 2011.
Navalny has been arrested several times by Russian authorities.[9] He received two suspended sentences for embezzlement in two cases, one in July 2013 and another in December 2014, for five-years and three-and-a-half-years of imprisonment, respectively.[10][11][12][13] Both cases are widely considered to be politically motivated and to bar him from running in future elections.[14][15] According to rulings by the European Court of Human Rights, the cases violated Navalny's right to a fair trial. In 2013, the Russia-based Memorial Human Rights Center recognized Navalny as a political prisoner.[16] In February 2014, Navalny was placed under house arrest and restricted from communicating with anyone but his family.[17] In May 2018, he was sentenced to 30 days in prison for attending an unsanctioned protest against Putin in Moscow; he condemned the verdict.[18][19]
In December 2016, Navalny tried to run for President of Russia during the 2018 election but was barred by Russia's Central Electoral Commission in December 2017. The Supreme Court of Russia rejected his appeal and upheld the ban.[14][20][21] He and his supporters have been detained and arrested many times and have become victims of attacks on many occasions during the campaign. In March 2017, Alexei Navalny and his Anti-Corruption Foundation created a documentaryHe Is Not Dimon to You, accusing Dmitry Medvedev, the prime minister and former president of Russia, of significant corruption.[22]
On 20 August 2020, Navalny was hospitalized and left in a serious but stable condition after a Novichok poisoning during a flight from Tomsk to Moscow in a possibly politically motivated attack. His flight was diverted to Omsk.[23][24] On 22 August he was transported to Berlin on a medical evacuation flight paid for by the German non-governmental organisation Cinema for Peace.[25] As of 24 August, he remains in an induced coma but with no current acute danger to his life.
Thought she'd be gone by now. Another one of those "you'll kick yourself ones."
sandman55 said
10:57 PM Sep 7, 2020
I recognised her last night but I thought as I had a turn I would see if someone else would have a try but no takers. Hillary Clinton.
Sheba said
11:25 PM Sep 7, 2020
That's her Sandy. Off you go.
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American politician, diplomat, lawyer, writer, and public speaker who served as the 67th United States secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, as a United States senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, and as First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Clinton became the first woman to be nominated for president .
-- Edited by Sheba on Tuesday 8th of September 2020 12:59:18 AM
sandman55 said
11:18 AM Sep 8, 2020
Wow that was a quick game Over to you Sheba
Claude Joséphine Rose "Claudia" Cardinale (born 15 April 1938) is an Italian Tunisian film actress and movie icon who starred in some of the most acclaimed European films of the 1960s and 1970s, mainly Italian or French, but also in many English-language films.
Outspoken on women's rights causes over the years, Cardinale has been a UNESCO goodwill ambassador for the Defense of Women's Rights since March 2000. In February 2011, the Los Angeles Times Magazine named Cardinale among the 50 most beautiful women in film history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Cardinale
Sheba said
12:34 AM Sep 9, 2020
I've seen a lot of her Movies Sandy. Mind you, I put in Catherine Zeta-Jones at first. They could have been Twins, except for the age difference.
This guy is very Popular at the moment. [That should make it easy.]
That he is Sandy. I'll be sorry I said this, but don't make it too easy. .
Joseph Jason Namakaeha Momoa is an American actor and model widely known for portraying Arthur Curry / Aquaman in the DC Extended Universe films Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Justice League, and Aquaman.
sandman55 said
11:55 PM Sep 10, 2020
Thanks Sheba well this should be hard unless you know who he is
Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion in Nevada. He referred humorously to his lack of success at mining, turning to journalism for the Virginia CityTerritorial Enterprise.[5] His humorous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", was published in 1865, based on a story that he heard at Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, where he had spent some time as a miner. The short story brought international attention and was even translated into French.[6] His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty.
Twain earned a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, but he invested in ventures that lost most of itsuch as the Paige Compositor, a mechanical typesetter that failed because of its complexity and imprecision. He filed for bankruptcy in the wake of these financial setbacks, but in time overcame his financial troubles with the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers. He eventually paid all his creditors in full, even though his bankruptcy relieved him of having to do so. Twain was born shortly after an appearance of Halley's Comet, and he predicted that he would "go out with it" as well; he died the day after the comet made its closest approach to the Earth.
We had an Oil Baron, and then a Red Baron
Who do you have for us all
The Red Baron was the name applied to Manfred von Richthofen, a German fighter pilot who was the deadliest flying ace of World War I.
During a 19-month period between 1916 and 1918, the Prussian aristocrat shot down 80 Allied aircraft
He won widespread fame for his scarlet-colored airplanes and ruthlessly effective flying style.
Richthofens legend only grew after he took command of a German fighter wing known as the Flying Circus
His career in the ****pit was cut short in April 1918, when he was killed in a dogfight over France.
Thanks Tony, now who is this guy
EDIT: the file name should be showing properly and it is only showing .jpg and what is missing is KTO R only the R should be shown back to front to give the file name as a clue and the servers here won't print it. I was hoping you smart people would mouse over the pic and see the file name and get Google to translate it. They are not initials.
-- Edited by sandman55 on Saturday 5th of September 2020 09:40:01 PM
-- Edited by sandman55 on Saturday 5th of September 2020 09:50:47 PM
Thought he'd be gone by now. Surely that's Alexei Navalny, Putins' latest victim ?
You've got him Sheba Alexei Navalny, Putins' latest victim, a very brave man to take on Putin. Over to you for a pic
Alexei Anatolievich Navalny (Russian: , IPA: [lksej ntoljvt nvalnj]; born 4 June 1976) is a Russian opposition politician and anti-corruption activist. He came to international prominence by organizing demonstrations, and running for office, to advocate reforms against corruption in Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Putin's government. Navalny was described as "the man Vladimir Putin fears most".[2] Putin is said to avoid directly referring to Navalny by name.[3]
Navalny was a Russian Opposition Coordination Council member and the leader of the opposition political Progress Party.[4] In September 2013, he ran in the Moscow mayoral election, supported by the RPR-PARNAS party. He came in second, with 27% of the vote, losing to incumbent mayor Sergei Sobyanin, a Putin appointee. Navalny claimed election fraud and that he actually received more votes.[5] Navalny became well known through his LiveJournal blog, but later switched to YouTube, where he has four million subscribers, and Twitter, where he has 2.2 million followers.[6][7] Through these channels he published videos and documents about corruption by Russian state officials, organized political demonstrations and promoted his campaigns for office. He has also been active in other media. In a 2011 radio interview he described Russia's ruling party United Russia as a "party of crooks and thieves", which became a popular epithet.[8] He created the Anti-Corruption Foundation in 2011.
Navalny has been arrested several times by Russian authorities.[9] He received two suspended sentences for embezzlement in two cases, one in July 2013 and another in December 2014, for five-years and three-and-a-half-years of imprisonment, respectively.[10][11][12][13] Both cases are widely considered to be politically motivated and to bar him from running in future elections.[14][15] According to rulings by the European Court of Human Rights, the cases violated Navalny's right to a fair trial. In 2013, the Russia-based Memorial Human Rights Center recognized Navalny as a political prisoner.[16] In February 2014, Navalny was placed under house arrest and restricted from communicating with anyone but his family.[17] In May 2018, he was sentenced to 30 days in prison for attending an unsanctioned protest against Putin in Moscow; he condemned the verdict.[18][19]
In December 2016, Navalny tried to run for President of Russia during the 2018 election but was barred by Russia's Central Electoral Commission in December 2017. The Supreme Court of Russia rejected his appeal and upheld the ban.[14][20][21] He and his supporters have been detained and arrested many times and have become victims of attacks on many occasions during the campaign. In March 2017, Alexei Navalny and his Anti-Corruption Foundation created a documentary He Is Not Dimon to You, accusing Dmitry Medvedev, the prime minister and former president of Russia, of significant corruption.[22]
On 20 August 2020, Navalny was hospitalized and left in a serious but stable condition after a Novichok poisoning during a flight from Tomsk to Moscow in a possibly politically motivated attack. His flight was diverted to Omsk.[23][24] On 22 August he was transported to Berlin on a medical evacuation flight paid for by the German non-governmental organisation Cinema for Peace.[25] As of 24 August, he remains in an induced coma but with no current acute danger to his life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Navalny
Thanks Sandy. This shouldn't be too hard.
Thought she'd be gone by now. Another one of those "you'll kick yourself ones."
I recognised her last night but I thought as I had a turn I would see if someone else would have a try but no takers. Hillary Clinton.
That's her Sandy. Off you go.
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American politician, diplomat, lawyer, writer, and public speaker who served as the 67th United States secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, as a United States senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, and as First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Clinton became the first woman to be nominated for president .
Thanks Sheba. Now who is this lady
Claudia Cardinale.
-- Edited by Sheba on Tuesday 8th of September 2020 12:59:18 AM
Wow that was a quick game
Over to you Sheba
Claude Joséphine Rose "Claudia" Cardinale (born 15 April 1938) is an Italian Tunisian film actress and movie icon who starred in some of the most acclaimed European films of the 1960s and 1970s, mainly Italian or French, but also in many English-language films.
Born and raised in La Goulette, a neighbourhood of Tunis, Cardinale won the "Most Beautiful Italian Girl in Tunisia" competition in 1957, the prize being a trip to Italy, which quickly led to film contracts, due above all to the involvement of Franco Cristaldi, who acted as her mentor for a number of years and later married her. After making her debut in a minor role with Omar Sharif in Goha (1958), Cardinale became one of the best-known actresses in Italy with roles in films such as Rocco and His Brothers (1960), Girl with a Suitcase (1961), Cartouche (1962), The Leopard (1963), and Fellini's 8½ (1963).[a] From 1963, Cardinale became known in the United States and Britain following her role in The Pink Panther opposite David Niven. For several years, she appeared in Hollywood films such as Blindfold (1965), Lost Command (1966), The Professionals (1966), The Hell with Heroes (1968), and the Sergio Leone epic Western Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), a joint US-Italian production, in which she was praised for her role as a former prostitute opposite Jason Robards, Charles Bronson, and Henry Fonda.
Jaded with the Hollywood film industry and not wanting to become a cliché, Cardinale returned to Italian and French cinema, and garnered the David di Donatello for Best Actress award for her roles in Il giorno della civetta (1968) and as a prostitute alongside Alberto Sordi in A Girl in Australia (1971). In 1974, Cardinale met director Pasquale Squitieri, who would become her partner, and she frequently featured in his films, including I guappi (1974), Corleone (1978) and Claretta (1984), the last of which won her the Nastro d'Argento Award for Best Actress. In 1982, she starred in Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo as the love interest of Klaus Kinski, who raises the funds to buy a steamship in Peru. In 2010, Cardinale received the Best Actress Award at the 47th Antalya "Golden Orange" International Film Festival for her performance as an elderly Italian woman who takes in a young Turkish exchange student in Signora Enrica.
Outspoken on women's rights causes over the years, Cardinale has been a UNESCO goodwill ambassador for the Defense of Women's Rights since March 2000. In February 2011, the Los Angeles Times Magazine named Cardinale among the 50 most beautiful women in film history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Cardinale
This guy is very Popular at the moment. [That should make it easy.]
Don't tell me no-body watched G.O.Ts. ?
Thought he would be long gone.
After that clue is he a young Jason Momoa?
That he is Sandy. I'll be sorry I said this, but don't make it too easy.
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Joseph Jason Namakaeha Momoa is an American actor and model widely known for portraying Arthur Curry / Aquaman in the DC Extended Universe films Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Justice League, and Aquaman.
Thanks Sheba well this should be hard unless you know who he is
Don't really think I'm right, but I'll have a stab at Henry Lawson, although the Hairline and Jawline don't seem quite right.
-- Edited by Sheba on Friday 11th of September 2020 02:47:17 AM
Pretty sure that is Mark Twain
Well I thought I put up a hard one but it wasn't too hard for you Cadpete Mark Twain it is, that is his pen name, over to you for a pic.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 April 21, 1910),[1] known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist [the United States] has produced",[2] and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature".[3] His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884),[4] the latter often called "The Great American Novel".
Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion in Nevada. He referred humorously to his lack of success at mining, turning to journalism for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise.[5] His humorous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", was published in 1865, based on a story that he heard at Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, where he had spent some time as a miner. The short story brought international attention and was even translated into French.[6] His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty.
Twain earned a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, but he invested in ventures that lost most of itsuch as the Paige Compositor, a mechanical typesetter that failed because of its complexity and imprecision. He filed for bankruptcy in the wake of these financial setbacks, but in time overcame his financial troubles with the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers. He eventually paid all his creditors in full, even though his bankruptcy relieved him of having to do so. Twain was born shortly after an appearance of Halley's Comet, and he predicted that he would "go out with it" as well; he died the day after the comet made its closest approach to the Earth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain
Thanks Sandman, who can tell me who this is ?
Clue time I think ?
Cheers - Ian
Exactly Sandy.
Cheers- Ian
Sorry folks - had no internet over the weekend! He's an author if that helps
He looks familiar but I've had a look and can't find him maybe someone else can
Same here Sandy, only I don't know the face.
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