Annotations to League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume III Chapter Two, Paul Eke disagrees, . There is a “ Black Lion Street” in Brighton, but nothing at #5. Both Moore and O’Neill worked for IPC/Fleetway in their time, so you can read the text of this ad in that context. And there are numerous parallels to the band The Rolling Stones in this book. This is the 1. 96. Britannia which appeared in previous League books. Britannia is a personification of the British Empire. In previous books she appeared on the incomplete Channel Causeway bridge near the white cliffs of Dover (seen in the background), but she was in classical garb. This being 1. 96. Britannia wears a considerably more colorful (and revealing) outfit. It was generally habituated by artists and other creative types, and eccentrics in general. The statue is of Christopher Robin, Winnie the Pooh, and Piglet, from A. A. Milne’s books of poetry and stories and, much later, various Disney films and cartoons. The house we are seeing is Cotchford farm in Hartfield, East Sussex. AA Milne, creator of Winnie- the- Pooh, bought the house in 1. January 1. 95. 6, aged 7. The house was bought by Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones in November 1. July 1. 96. 9. He was found dead at the bottom of his swimming pool. In 1. 95. 9 Humble oil launched their . To go with this, they later produced a tiger tail you could attach to or hang out of your petrol cap, and sold a remarkable 2. The car, which was produced in three series between 1. Adam Vandergriff writes, . Addison was born on October 27, 1944 in Mansfield, Louisiana and died on September 3, 2012 at his home in Minden, Louisiana. Beach racing The 2016 Race of Gentlemen East: Two days of sand, sun and speed Kurt Ernst on Jun 8th, 2016. Annotations to League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume III Chapter Two, a.k.a. Unless otherwise specified, all figures identified are. The 1877 Wimbledon Championship was a men's tennis tournament held at the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club (AEC & LTC) in Wimbledon, London. Synopsis, cast/crew information, with movie recommendations, user comments and ratings. HL Deb 27 March 1962 vol 238 cc851-959 851 . Retrouvez tous les messages ann IN MEMORIAM -- PHILIP RN SUTTON (1914-1995) FLUORIDE, 28:3, 1995 August, Guest Editorial by Mark Diesendorf PhD. Philip R N Sutton DDSc (Melbourne) FRACDS passed away. The subsequent panel features the . I love this reference but did not notice in your annotations what may be so obvious it wasn't mentioned: . This is the grown- up version of Basil Fotherington- Thomas, who appeared in four of the the “Nigel Molesworth” novels by Geoffrey Willains and Ronald Searle: Down with Skool (1. How to be Topp (1. Whizz for Atomms (1. Back in the Jug Agane (1. In the books, Fotherington- Thomas is an effete sissy who skips around school saying “Hullo clouds, hullo sky.” The “Mrs. Joyful Prize” medal Fotherington- Thomas is wearing is given, in the Nigel Molesworth novels, for Raffia Work. In the novels it is always won by Grabber (see Page 4, Panel 2, below), but obviously Fotherington- Thomas won it at least once. Yeah, I think so.” “Actually, it’s short for Tadukic Acid Diethylamide.” In H. Rider Haggard’s The Ivory Child (1. The Ancient Allan (1. Allan and the Ice Gods (1. In Allan and the Ice Gods thetaduki leaves, when smoked, allow Allan Quatermain and Lady Ragnall to experience past lives. In “Allan and the Sundered Veil,” the text piece in League v. Allan visits an aging Lady Ragnall and smokes some taduki with her. Page 4. Panel 1.“Dear old St. Custards,” but as far as I know is never identified with its proper name. Cuthbert’s” might be a reference to the R. E. Cuthberts (1. 90. I’m not sure what the point of the reference would be. Cuthbert’s” is the most likely original for “St. Portal about top country music - discographies, albums, covers, songs, lyrics and more. Check out world's 350 best high-end exclusive country clubs and prestigious private business and social members' gentlemen's clubs. Custards.” P. Cuthbert’s/Custards: - I have come across one reference to St Cuthbert's Primary School in Birmingham being called St Custard’s by its pupils. Perhaps, as Birmingham is not terribly far from Northampton, Moore was aware of this.” “That’s where I met Tim, our lead guitarist.” See Page 5. Panel 3 below. Panel 2.“And Andy, Andrew May, our Manager. Custards and the child of wealthy parents. The name “Andy May”/”Andrew May” isn’t (as far as I know) in the Molesworth books, and does sound familiar, but I can’t place it. Grabber, in the Molesworth books, is always referred to as 'Grabber ma'. I always read that as an abreviation of 'Grabber major', meaning that the Head Boy was the older of two brothers at St Cuthberts. This usage appears in the contemporaneous Anthony Buckeridge series of Jennings books. Admittedly, Nigel Molesworth's younger brother is known as Molesworth 2. But either way, the surname of Andy May clearly comes from that usage. Page 5. Panel 1.“World Cup Willie” is a statue of the Mascot for the 1. World Cup, which was held in England. The dog is a statue of Nipper, the dog featured in the famous “His Master’s Voice” ad for the Gramophone Company but originally created by Francis Barraud. The third statue looks familiar but I can’t place it. I believe his name was Mr Therm and that he advertised for the then equivalent of British Gas plc, the company providing gas to homes for the purpose of cooking, heating etc. Therm. John Hall writes, . The trophy was found just seven days later wrapped in newspaper at the bottom of a suburban garden hedge in Upper Norwood, South London, by a dog named Pickles. Part of Theosophy is the idea that Tibetan ascended masters are passing on their wisdom to ordinary humanity. This is the same “Albion Reach” lion statue next to the cancelled Channel Causeway seen in League v. And the submarine is the newest iteration of the Captain Nemo’s. Nautilus. Nail my skull to its forecastle. In League v. 2n. 6 Page 2. Panel 3, Nemo mentions returning to his “wife and child on Lincoln Island” (Lincoln Island being the setting of The Mysterious Island). The child is given a name in the text piece in League v. Janni. Dakkar” (Nemo’s real name is Prince Dakkar”). A grown- up Janni played a major role in Century: 1. The woman on the left, “Hira,” is Janni’s daughter. In Panel 6 Janni refers to “my love, my Jack,” which would seem to confirm fan speculation that Broad Arrow Jack, a member of the Nautilus crew from League v. Janni’s lover, and therefore Hira’s father. Harcourt Burrage and appeared in the penny dreadful Broad Arrow Jack (1. Antony Keen corrects me: . Interestingly, in Century: 1. Janni and her father spoke Punjabi to each other, and in the notes to Century: 1. I wrote: According to The Mysterious Island Captain Nemo, a. Prince Dakkar, was a prince of “Bundelkund,” or Bundelkhand, an area in central India. Punjab is on the northwest border of India. Most people in Bundelkhand speak Bundeli, but there’s certainly no reason why Nemo’s wife couldn’t be Punjabi. There’s certainly no reason why Janni and Jack couldn’t have chosen “Hira” as a name. But Punjabi and Gujarati are different languages from different parts of India. Little Jack” is Janni’s grandson, Hira’s son. The identity of his father is not hinted at. Leo Antolini corrects me: . Having to blow it up during the war was a real drag, wasn’t it, Allan?” Obviously the Channel Causeway, delayed as of 1. League v. 1), was eventually completed, but such a thing would have posed a great threat to England during World War Two, so it had to be destroyed. Sidney Osinga writes, . Ishmael, like Broad Arrow Jack a member of the Nautilus crew from. League v. 1n. 1, was created by Herman Melville and appeared in Moby Dick (1. It’s fitting that Orlando would have interacted with the lead of Shakespeare’s King Lear (1. I want to achieve it through not dying.’” Page 8. Panel 4. Or was it Agricola?” As seen in Black Dossier, Orlando was a part of Caesar’s invasion of Britain. Historically, the earliest roads built in Britain by the Romans connected London with the ports used in the invasion. The “Agricola” Orlando mentions is Gnaeus Julius Agricola (4. Roman conquest of Britain. Tony Keen corrects me: . Don’t remind me.” The “League of Marvels” a. The story is recounted in. Geoffrey of Monmouth's 1. It is said that The London Stone, a chunk of which may still be found near Cannon Street Station, is a remnant of a stone. Brutus from Troy and that the fate of the city and the stone are interlinked. This is the first of the scenes with numerous passers- by who, presumably, are meant to be recognized as someone. I’m not good with these, so I’ll need extra help from you, Dear Reader, to recognize these individuals: left to right, Man With His Leg Up, Bow- Tie Man, Two Men In Suits, Blonde- Haired Man With Two Women. John Mackenzie, 1. Bob Hoskins, where most of the actions begins after the murder of one of Hoskin's gay associates. To be honest the opening of Century 1. Friday. And to continue, a James Bond, Pierece Brosnan has one of his earliest appearance on film in TLG. Hasn't he got his right foot on some kind of orthotic stilt? So that, in effect, he's a man with a serious case of Short Leg Syndrome? Surely that'd ring someone else's bells.. Knowing Moore's preoccupations, I doubt this is accidental. Perhaps the doorman immediately behind Blonde Man represents the angel?? I sort of doubt it, but they do have the look about them. A dirty cravat was held by an enormous brass ring. He was a big man, with the shoulders of a wrestler; and his bulk contrasted oddly with his voice, which was that of an old Cockney woman. He would approach the unwary and try to sell them copies of his poems on pieces of grubby paper. Jack's abysmal personal hygiene - he was the man who put the BO in 'Bohemia' - meant he always had plenty of leg room in the French. The poster for the sex show, “A woman and a Vril” is a reference to the Vril- ya, from Bulwer- Lytton’s The Coming Race (1. In the novel the Vril- ya are a technologically and biologically advanced species of humanoids who live in a subterranean civilization. Don’t recognize the man on the left or the quartet on the right. Left to right, from back to front, there’s Joan Sims, Sid James, Charles Hawtrey, and Kenneth Williams.” Mark Elstob disagrees: . It is Barbara Windsor (who had a very brief liaison with the man standing next to her, Sid James). With British comedy films in mind, I imagine the seated gentleman with the cigarette holder is Terry Thomas, star of a number of films on both sides of the Atlantic through the fifties and sixties. The gentleman speaking, “Vince,” is Vic Dakin, from the film Villain (1. In the film Dakin, played by Richard Burton, is a gay London mobster modeled on Ronnie Kray (see Panel 5 below). Presumably Vince is drawn here and elsewhere to resemble Burton. The cufflink is the shape as the “V” in the film poster (seen here) for Villain. For much of the boundary with India while there were occasional border posts at well frequented passes only a very small length of the border was actually marked. In such circumstances in 1. Mc. Mahon of the Survey of India was instructed to undertake to survey and mark where he considered the boundary should be. Despite a long history of offers and negotiations between the various parties total agreement was not, unsurprisingly, ever reached and despite the huge effort the Mc. Mahon Line was largely ignored. All along the south side of the Himalaya the passes were utilised (and still are today) for grazing flocks owned by Gujars who are self sufficient nomadic herdsmen reputed to have arrived in the area with Gengis Khan. They herd their animals to graze the valleys ascending to the higher passes in the spring/summer then as the snows arrive being forced back down to the plains in the autumn. Understandably, where the actual Mc. Mahon Line was situate was entirely academic to the Gujars. Even to today such a system endures. During the 1. 95. China expanded into parts of Tibet. The Dali Llama fled into India accompanied by thousands of Tibetan refugees but both the World and India, diverted by the cold war and Korea took little notice. In the remote border area of Aski Chin the Chinese engineers built a modern road which had great strategic value in allowing China quickly to readily move troops about in the area. The only response from India was for Jawaharal Nehru to make a placatory speech to the Indian Government on September the 4th 1. Despite the fact that behind the scenes India and China were on a collision course World concern was not roused. It was felt to be a minor matter springing from the doubtful identification of the Mc. Mahon Line. Indeed, Nehru's speech had referred to . In fact China had built a 3. World which enabled the Chinese to have good access to their . In winter it took three weeks to get supplies to the Indian front line whereas the Chinese could complete the same task in 3 hours. Getting reliable news in Assam as to what exactly the situation was proved near impossible. All India Radio would report the Indian Forces making a brave stand at a certain point while BBC World Service reported the same place falling to the Chinese several days earlier. Most of the places in the Aski Chin area were very remote and generally unknown to the planting community in Assam. However, reports were soon coming through of Indian forces being routed by superior numbers at Walong at the head of the Lohit Valley and Bomdi La within motoring distance from Tezpur. By the second week of November 1. Chinese would soon be arriving on the plains and it was in such panicky circumstances that the planting fraternity hurriedly had to decide what to do. The ABITA assumed a positive role and grouped gardens into . Most people opted to exit into East Pakistan by road via Badapur Ghat. Some opted to cross the border from Shillong. One group having assisted the Oxford and Cambridge University overland expedition into Burma in 1. Stilwell's Ledo Road. Others planned to boat out down the Bramaphutra. The United Kingdom Citizens Association played an active part in evacuating large numbers of Anglo Indians. Return to top. Foreward. Until I started collecting reminiscences from various people living in Assam (or who had been in Assam in 1. I had not realised how little most residents knew about the 1. War with China. Communication was difficult, many estates not having a reliable phone. Very few people appreciated that the Chinese had occupied three separate sectors of India's disputed border as what news there was tended to be of events on the Se La/Tezpur sector which was directly connected to tea planting areas around Tezpur. Incredibly some tea planters never heard about the war till after the ceasefire. Not all planters acted in an exemplary manner. Some fled and left both garden and friends. When I set about setting down a similar document in 2. With the passing of time such views have also passed into history. Return to top. Maps & Books. My superintendent, Joe Lys gave me a set of one inch scale British O S maps of Assam on the strict understanding that it was illegal to hold such maps and I should not divulge where they came from. Joe had retained the maps from days when he had flown about Assam in a dilapidated Auster. The maps were in a poor state but after getting the garden dhobi to iron them out were quite usable. The maps were dated, I recall, from 1. Survey of India. However, particularly in the hills there were large blank areas marked . There are road maps and . The road maps are quite adequate for touring but as their name might imply are restricted to the more populous area. The trekking maps are only available for relatively popular tourist areas and tend to be unreliable in terms of updating. In the Garhwali and Kumaon it is quite usual to find roads closed for various reasons or bridges collapsed. One year I applied (in writing) to have an interview with the Surveyor General. He confirmed that in restricted areas no non- resident was permitted to carry unauthorised maps. So for many years it had been illegal to carry maps of any description. Similarly, I discovered, it was illegal to photograph bridges, petrol filling stations and railway stations. The Surveyor General, who was himself Assamese did however invite me to inspect the Everest Museum and the surveying equipment used by Everest even though it was situate in a military restricted area. In the Times Atlas Aski Chin is clearly identifiable by the large . The area is largely barren salt dessert where during the 1. China built a road some 3. India. It seems extraordinary that no one noticed such an incursion and one is forced to wonder if Nehru did not view it with a Nelsonian eye in the hope that the problem would simply go away. It did not and as time passed it became clear that the road had considerable military benefit to the Chinese. The border dispute had for years gone on along some 2,0. India's frontier. In Assam which in 1. Thag La had been the subject of continuous negotiations between India and China. Border posts had been sited and re- sited as negotiations had succeeded or failed The post which was manned by the Indians and was most controversial was Dhola (not the Dholla near Saikhowa) which was accessed from the Tezpur via Tawang above which were the two passes of Se La and Bomdi La. Dependant on the weather conditions and time of year it could take three weeks hard trek with mules to get to Dhola from Tezpur. The Chinese who overlooked the Dhola post . When the Battle of Thag La raged Brig. Dalvi in his book Himalayan Blunder describes whole areas of the battle for which the Indian forces had no adequate maps. Much of the battle orders were on hand drawn A4 sheets. A third area of battle was at Walong above Tezu at the very north eastern corner of Assam. This area which like Tawang was a historical trading route had been the subject on longstanding dispute and a significant battle was also fought there just before the Cease Fire when the Indian Army were routed mainly due to lack of supplies Apart from planters in Cachar and southern Assam it began to look as any planters remaining in Assam could be caught in a pincer movement between the Chinese forces approaching from Tawang and Walong. As tea planters it is fair comment to say that we were not generally encouraged to take an interest in politics, local or otherwise. As a result, apart from those who held a treasured Inner Line Passes we took limited interest in what was going on in the hills as well as pronouncements from the Lok Saba. The books I recommend are as follows: -India's China War, Neville Maxwell, Jonathan Cape. Himalayan Blunder, Brig. Dalvi, Natraj Publishers Dehra Dun. The Battle of NEFA, G. S. Bhargava, Allies Press. The Untold Story, Lt. Kaul, Allied Publishers. China Invades India, V. Karnik, Allied Publishers. Return to top Squadron Leader John A'quino. I was garden assistant at Dikom when Squadron Leader John O'quino arrived to reopen the Chubua Airfield which had been unoccupied since the American USAAF abandoned . The airfield had no buildings and jungle had grown prolifically through cracks in the concrete runway. Readers who spent time in Assam will recall that the Americans not only built a concrete runway but also concreted the main Dibrugarh - Tinsukia highway 3. It was the only place for miles around where you could . When I invited John round to my bungalow for a drink he was keen to accept but made it plain that what he would really most appreciate would be a hot bath. One of the few commodities which found its way through the tragically mis- managed supply system of the Indian military was rum and my bungalow quickly became an annex to the non- existent Chubua Officer's Mess which produced a massive cache of rum in exchange for hot baths! It turned out that John was a keen angler and I offered to take him to the Dirok River where we had a wonderful day catching several chocolate mahseer peculiar to Assam which John had never seen before. Driving back to Dikom John thanked me for a great day and asked whether he could return the favour by taking me to a venue of my choice up the Lohit. He would arrange an Inner Line Pass for me. We fixed a Sunday when I should report to the airfield guardhouse at half past eight where he would meet me. As I drove up to the tented guardhouse John was talking to what appeared to be the pilot or crew of a Sikorsky 3. The plan was that we should be flown up to wherever we wished so long as it was en route for Walong where the helicopter was on duty shifting stores and supplies. Having completed its duty the helicopter would pick us up and fly back to the Chubua base. I had never flown in a helicopter and this Sikorsky which while flying looked a reasonable size, now, close- up on the ground it looked massive.
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