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Liar Temptress Soldier Spy By Karen Abbott Harper Perennial • $ 16.99 • ISBN 9780062092908 In a history book that reads like a suspense novel, Abbott portrays four women who operated as spies during the Civil War — two for the Union and two for the Confederacy.

«In reverse chronological order, Cline - Ransome's pithy, lyrical lines lay out the prolific achievements of Harriet Tubman, from her campaign for women's suffrage to her role as a spy during the civil war to her iconic work as a conductor on the underground railroad, all the way back to her childhood.

Not exact matches

Northrop Grumman built the components that failed during a launch of the U.S. spy satellite known as Zuma, WSJ reports.

Northrop Grumman built and operated the components that failed during the controversial January launch of the U.S. spy satellite known as Zuma, according to a Wall Street Journal report Sunday.

His data shows that during the bear market year of 2008, the overall market, as represented by the SPY E.T.F., declined 36.8 percent.

Using monthly T - bill yield and monthly dividend - adjusted closing prices for the above assets during January 1993 (as limited by SPY) through Mar 2018, we find that: Keep Reading

Using monthly dividend - adjusted closing prices for these ETFs, along with contemporaneous data for SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) as a benchmark, during December 1998 through December 2017 (229 months), we find that:

«As it turns out, GE designed, manufactured or supplied parts or maintenance for nearly every important weapons system employed by the USA during the Gulf War, including the much - praised Patriot and Tomahawk Cruise missiles, the Stealth bomber, the B - 52 bomber, the AWACS plane, the Apache and Cobra helicopters and the NAVSTAR spy satellite system.

As well as the many game dishes seen on the menus, the name of the restaurant also pays playful homage to The Stafford's famous former resident, Nancy Wake, an eccentric female spy who frequented the in - house American Bar during the Second World War and who resided at the hotel during her final yearAs well as the many game dishes seen on the menus, the name of the restaurant also pays playful homage to The Stafford's famous former resident, Nancy Wake, an eccentric female spy who frequented the in - house American Bar during the Second World War and who resided at the hotel during her final yearas the many game dishes seen on the menus, the name of the restaurant also pays playful homage to The Stafford's famous former resident, Nancy Wake, an eccentric female spy who frequented the in - house American Bar during the Second World War and who resided at the hotel during her final years.

During practice last week, the gregarious center spied TV sportscaster Marv Albert and yelled, «Hey, why don't you recommend me as a summer replacement at the station?»

Among the stunned and inconsolable was Denzel, who operated as a spy on Manziel during some plays and was one of the few defenders quick enough to catch up with the phenom.

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Consider suggesting guessing games such as «20 Questions» or «I Spy» during times of waiting (while in waiting rooms or waiting in line, while making dinner or while the bath is filling, for example).

, and music that your child enjoys in the car and engage with your child during the ride by singing along or playing games such as I Spy - «Let's look for a red car».

However, during the 2013 Snowden revelations it was conclusively demonstrated that GCHQ did in fact collaborate with the NSA in illegally circumventing US laws and spying on US citizens and public figures as an agent of the US government as summarized by multiple Guardian articles.

As to whether the UK has pulled such operations in the past, there is no indication of an assassination of a former spy or false flagging thereof, but a parallel could possibly be drawn between false flag operations by the UK in coordination with the US during the 1953 Iranian Coup d'etat called in the UK «Operation Boot» and in the US «Operation Ajax».

Based on real life events during the final months in office of the West German chancellor Willy Brandt, this political tale unfolds as suspicions arise that a Stasi spy has infiltrated his inner circle.

Carrot myth was started during ww2 to throw off German spys as to the existence of radar.

They even bring to light the little known fact that Josephine worked as a spy for the French government during WWII.

She even used her fame to act as a spy for France during World War II.

Oscar ® winners Brad Pitt ** and Marion Cotillard *** star as Max Vatan and Marianne Beauséjour, two of the world's deadliest spies, who fall in love while undercover on a top - secret mission and marry during World War II.

Initially created as the first of an entire army of Nazi - bashing he - men during World War II, Cap finds himself alone in the world when the kindly scientist in charge of the operation is gunned down by an evil spy.

There were supporting turns in such projects as «Aberdeen» (2000), «Spy Game» (2001), «The Statement» (2003), «Lemming» (2005), the supremely silly «Basic Instinct 2» (2006), the even sillier «Babylon A.D.» (2008), «The Duchess» (2008), «Life During Wartime» (2009), «Never Let Me Go» (2010), «Melancholia» (2011) and «The Forbidden Room» (2015).

You're going to have a blast watching Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer portraying opposites as American and Russian spies during the Cold War that must put their differences aside and work together to infiltrate some dangerous people and locate a nuclear bomb; the banter that they share regarding the technical gadgets from their respective countries, their dissonance in personality (Cavill is the fast - talking, suave ladies man while Hammer is the brute that much control his temper), and constant feeling to one - up the other is all deeply fun.

Below, on Charlie Rose, she also talks about how she digs back into the Holocaust (as she did for one of her favorite roles as an Mossad spy in John Madden's «The Debt») in order to play elderly Jewish woman Maria Altmann, who 60 years after she fled Vienna during World War II, fought to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt's famous painting «Portrait of Adele Bloch - Bauer I.» The Weinstein Company now opens Simon Curtis's «Woman in Gold,» co-starring Ryan Reynolds, on April 1.

During an interview with Digital Spy, Lost and Colony actor Josh Holloway has revealed that he was originally cast as Remy LeBeau, a.k.a. the fan favourite mutant Gambit, in 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine, only to find himself replaced by Taylor Kitsch when the studio wanted to go younger with the character.

Judd had a long life of adventuring, as both a soldier of fortune and a spy and has dealt with many costumed operatives during World War II and since.

Working with Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda and Jane Fonda during the 1981 shoot of On Golden Pond was a career highlight, as was The Spy Who Loved Me starring Roger Moore as 007.

Anyway, it goes without saying that the «Garden State» vibes are strong with this one; painful flashbacks to that film's famous «wallpaper shot» are inevitable during an early moment in which Dean spies a young boy wearing the exact same outfit as he is.

In an uncanny parallel with this first Oscar nomination as Soviet spy Rudolf Abel in the Cold War drama «Bridge of Spies,» Rylance's first on - camera appearance was in 1985's «Wallenberg: A Hero's Story,» a TV movie about a Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of lives during the Holocaust.

He'll be calling the shots on Deadpool 2 (he directed that teaser trailer that played before Logan), but before that, he's delivering a thriller starring Charlize Theron as a British spy kicking ass during the Cold War.

Sitting down with Variety while promoting his latest film, The Catcher Was A Spy, during Sundance, Rudd briefly talked about what fans can expect from his second solo outing as a Marvel superhero in this summer's Ant - Man And The Wasp.

Roy Scheider (Jaws, Blue Thunder) stars as Harry Hannan, a spy of sorts working for a secret organization, coming back in from a mandatory vacation after his wife is killed during one of his cases.

Season 3 sees Will Ferrell, an executive producer, playing children's author Roald Dahl during his days as a British spy; Josh Hartnett as Hollywood icon Clark Gable; Oscar winner Octavia Spencer as abolitionist Harriet Tubman; Topher Grace as board game mogul Milton Bradley; Michael Cera as the leader of the New York newsboy strike of 1899; Dennis Quaid and Sam Rockwell as mobsters Lucky Luciano and Bugsy Siegel; Jack Black as Los Angeles water system architect William Mulholland.

While Carano just isn't ready to enhance this spy - betrayed - by - the - system saga outside of using her apt MMA skills — and perhaps Soderbergh realized this during filming, as there are prolonged shots of her just running around and scaling rooftops (one of the better shot sequences though), it all falls on Soderbergh and the story to keep us wired in.

During my time with the 2014 Infiniti Q50, I happily let the technology help me park and pick up bandits in blind spots (spied as flashing warnings in the outside mirrors), but this is as much as this comfortable driver feels comfortable with.

BMW seem keen on maintaining their recent affair with front - wheel drive models as a new 2 Series model believed to be named Family Tourer was spied again during testing.

Reports suggest that the fourth generation Suzuki Jimny SUV which was revealed on a production line in spy shots during December 2017 will be coming to India, with possible production from the country as well.

The all new Corolla Tourer (known as the Auris in Europe) has been caught by our spy photographers during hot weather testing in Southern Europe.

... or the not - so - distant future, as Volvo has an all - new XC90 on the way, recently snapped by our spy photographer during testing.

Sold as a slave to an influential New York Tory family, 13 - year - old Isabel spies for the patriot side during the American Revolution in a desperate hope to gain freedom for herself and her 5 - year - old sister.

Set during the height of the Cold War - with the world divided into East and West - 54 features Cary Grant as a real - life spy dealing with Italian partisans, KGB agents, Parisian lowlifes, and cameos by David Niven, Marshal Tito, and Grace Kelly.

One of its most notable and heroic missions took place during the Cold War, when the Vatican attempted to smuggle priests into the Soviet Bloc to act as spies.

«The Curse of the Wendigo,» a story about a mysterious creature set during World War I, written by Mathieu Missoffe and illustrated by Charlie Adlard, the artist of «The Walking Dead;» «Josephine,» a romantic comedy by Penelope Bagieu, the creator of «Exquisite Corpse;» «Promethee,» a science - fiction story in the same vein as «Lost,» created by Christopher Bec, with an introduction by Mark Waid; «Iron Squad,» an alternate history sci - fi story in which new technology allows the Germans to win World War II, by Jean - Luc Sala and Ronan Toulhoat; «Spin Angels,» a tale of black ops and spies, a Catholic cardinal and the Mafia, by Jean - Luc Sala and Pierre - Mony Chan; «Come Prima,» a road story about two warring brothers, done in a style that pays homage to Italian films, by Alfred.

It's hard to understand why she's so cross — surely hissed denunciations, counter-denunciations and deals done behind closed doors during her 40 - year career as a spy were ideal training for judging Britain's leading literary prize.

As a comparison, during the same time period SPY returned 3.04 % and VBR, a small cap value ETF, returned 4.74 %.

In the other direction, one train stop away, is the town of Estoril, made world - famous by Ian Flemming, who penned the first James Bond book in the series — in fact, the Estoril Casino was the inspiration for Casino Royal, and the air of the town will bring to mind the spies and royalty that used Estoril during World War II as their getaway spot.

Since then, the studio has «floundered» as it tries to figure out what its next project should be, with ideas like a fourth Mafia set in Las Vegas during the 70s, a spy game set in Berlin in the 80s, and a music - fueled action game ultimately being abandoned.

The game play in the Spy Hunter PC remake is quite similar to that of the arcade version, however there are times during game play when it seems as though the enemies and other cars on the road are much more difficult to defeat or drive around than the arcade version.

(I spy with my little eye...) As you may remember, last time I caught up with the Distillery folks was during the Spring Open Studios which unfortunately coincided with my moving day.