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Oceanic whitetip shark swimming near a diver. The oceanic whitetip shark is a large requiem shark inhabiting tropical and warm temperate seas. It has a stocky body with long, white-tipped, rounded fins. The species is typically solitary but can congregate around food concentrations. It is found worldwide between 45°N and 43°S latitudes in ...
Statesman and spymaster. Sir Francis Walsingham ( c. 1532 – 6 April 1590) was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England from 20 December 1573 until his death and is popularly remembered as her "spymaster". Born to a well-connected family of gentry, Walsingham attended Cambridge University and travelled in continental Europe before ...
Alistair Horne. Sir Alistair Allan Horne CBE FRSL (9 November 1925 – 25 May 2017) [1] was a British historian and academic best known for his works about armed conflicts involving 19th- and 20th-century France, including his classic about the Algerian War, A Savage War of Peace. A former spy and journalist, Horne wrote more than 20 books on ...
The Operative (film) The Operative. (film) The Operative is a 2019 internationally co-produced thriller film, written and directed by Israeli filmmaker Yuval Adler, based on the Hebrew novel The English Teacher (המורה לאנגלית) by Yiftach Reicher-Atir, [7] a former intelligence officer. [8] It stars Diane Kruger, Martin Freeman and ...
Diary of a Spy is a 2022 American arthouse spy romance film written and directed by Adam Christian Clark, starring Tamara Taylor, Reece Noi, and Fred Melamed. Plot [ edit ] Anna ( Tamara Taylor ) is a disgraced spy: after living in Saudi Arabia for several years, all other members of her cell have been killed, and the blame (deserved or not) has fallen on her.
Willy Brandt ( German: [ˈvɪliː ˈbʁant] ⓘ; born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm; 18 December 1913 – 8 October 1992) was a German politician and statesman who was leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 1964 to 1987 and served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1969 to 1974. [1] He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in ...
Box office. $953,953 [1] The Catcher Was a Spy is a 2018 American war film directed by Ben Lewin and written by Robert Rodat, based on the book of the same name by Nicholas Dawidoff. It stars Paul Rudd as Moe Berg, a former baseball player who joined the war effort during World War II and participated in espionage for the U.S. Government.
