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Famous people I have met or seen and some events
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Queen Elizebeth's visit to the Isle of Wight to my home town Ryde in the '70's.
(I just held up my little Union Jack flag and gave her a wave as I saw her driving by and remembered her hand waving in a white glove)
Antony Mingella
(Famous Academy Award-winning British film director, playwright and screenwriter. He is currently the chairman of the British Film Institute.) serving me soft drinks and crisps in his dads cafe 'Mingellas' when I was a boy, we used to hang out there sometimes, myself and a few other lads. He went to the same school as me ( Sandown Grammar School) but not the same time as he is 4 years older than me.
Jeremy Irons also went to my first all boys school. (Ryde Boys School)
Golda Meir
I went to her walkpast of her funeral, well the body was put on display
for people to pay their last respects..I was just in Jerusalem the first time
and happened to be there when it happened.
I remember the hoards of photographers opposite her coffin as people
passed by, I took a couple of pictures of them..
Jimmy Carter, Anwar Sadat and Menahim Begin
As I was working in the cowshed at one of the kibbutzim I was worked at,
Quiryat Anavim. on the main road from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Jimmy Carter,
Anwar Sadat and Menahim Begin drove by on the closed off road below on
their way to Jerusalem to sign the famous peace agreement which was the
peace between Egypt and Israel. I saw them clearly sitting in their limos as
they drove by.
Olof Palme
Twice.. Once in the Tunnelbana (Metro) at Ostermalmstorg, I asked him for directions to an English pub called the Tudor Arms run by a fellow
Isle Of Wighter called Chris Bellows.
Second time on the 'Pendeltorg' (Local suburban train) traveling from
Kungsángen to T-Centralen, he had been picking mushrooms in
the forest with his wife. I asked him for his autograph and explained to
him I sort of worked for him as I taught English for ABF, the Workers
Education Union, aligned to the Social Democrats. Sadly he was assassinated
when coming out of a cinema in central Stockholm, I was on a beach in Goa,
India when I heard the news.
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Places, People and Events
Putin
George Bush
Duran Duran
Depeche Mode
Thin Lizzy
Summer of Love in Ibiza and Barcelona
Summer of Love in London
First Rave in Sweden
First Rave in the Soviet Union
First Rave in the Russia
Margaret Thatcher
Hungarian Prime Ministers
Budapest Riots |
Places I remember I was during memorable events TO BE CONTINUED
First Man on the Moon
(At home and my parents let me watch this event,
first time they showed something after midnight I think.)
Collapse of Communism in The Soviet Union
( I Left Leningrad where I was living and took
the train to Helsinki the evening before the Putch with my Russian girlfriend,
we watched the events unfold, Jeltsin on the
tank on Swedish TV, we returned 12 days later to a new country)
Fall of the Berlin Wall
assassination of Olof Palme
Chenoble
Windows 95 ® is released
Princess Diana dies in automobile accident
9/11 |
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willy_wonka Tue Oct 14, 2008 07:42 UTC
hey there tim! all is well, and sydney is hopefully ready for the crazy banana and her cousin show! lol. all good here economically speaking... im still spending big on red bull and bratwurst. lol | sachara Fri Oct 10, 2008 15:03 UTC
Tim, great expression 'the world has gone Boratski'. Probably people in Kazachstan will not like it. Almost on my way to Ireland for a VT meeting and to Iran by end of the month. As you see, still on the move. | LoriPori Fri Oct 10, 2008 13:29 UTC
Thanks for stopping by Tim. I've never heard the expression "the whole world has gone Boratski". If that's kinda like "bonkers" then I agree with you. Lori | giampiero6 Thu Oct 2, 2008 18:19 UTC
What the heck does that mean and how is it pronounced ;) |
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