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Actors Who Served: Christopher Lee
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| September 8, 2012
| Amelia Hamilton
Posted on 09/08/2012 9:20:43 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: 03A3; All
from Encyclopedic Britannic
Russo-Finnish War, also called Winter War, World War II:Russian bombing of Helsinki, capital of Finland, 1939 [Credit: Stock footage courtesy The WPA Film Library](Nov. 30, 1939March 12, 1940), war waged by the Soviet Union against Finland at the beginning of World War II, following the conclusion of the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact (Aug. 23, 1939).After Finland had refused to grant the Soviets a naval base and other concessions in the fall of 1939, Soviet troops totaling about one million men attacked Finland on several fronts. The heavily outnumbered Finns put up a skillful and effective defense that winter, and the Red Army made little progress.
they got stomped badly..the Army was still suffering from the Stalinist Purges of the 1930s..THE GREAT TERROR.
In February 1940, however, the Soviets used massive artillery bombardments to breach the Mannerheim Line (the Finns southern defensive barrier stretching across the Karelian Isthmus), after which they streamed northward across the isthmus to the Finnish city of Viipuri (Vyborg).
Unable to secure help from Britain and France, the exhausted Finns made peace on Soviet terms on March 12, 1940, agreeing to the cession of western Karelia and to the construction of a Soviet naval base on the Hanko Peninsula.
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posted on
09/08/2012 10:38:41 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(WA DC E$tabli$hment; DNC/RNC/Unionists...Brazilian saying: "$@me Old $hit; w/ different flie$" :^)
To: skinkinthegrass
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posted on
09/08/2012 10:52:10 AM PDT
by
CatherineofAragon
(Don't be afraid to see what you see. (Ronald Reagan))
To: Bratch
He was great in Space 1999.
To: Bratch
Along with James Coburn, he was on the cover of Macca's "Band On the Run" Album
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posted on
09/08/2012 11:27:09 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
To: Bratch; All
In one the of extra interviews included on the 'Lord of the Rings' collectors DVD, Brad Dourif (Grima Wormtongue) recounted how Christopher Lee showed him how to accurately portray someone dying from a stab or piercing wound to the lungs.
Knowing that Lee served in WWII, Dourif said that he did not ask him how he knew this first hand.
Classic!
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posted on
09/08/2012 11:34:51 AM PDT
by
Timber Rattler
(Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
To: Bratch
A trick question is how many movies has Sir Christopher Lee been killed or died in? One can only guess, because as of right now, he has no fewer than *four* movies in post-production.
I don’t even have a rough estimate.
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posted on
09/08/2012 11:43:41 AM PDT
by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
(DIY Bumper Sticker: "THREE TIMES,/ DEMOCRATS/ REJECTED GOD")
To: yarddog
Good post yarddog, good post.
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posted on
09/08/2012 12:14:32 PM PDT
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
To: wolficatZ
Lee flew for a while in training. During the casting of the movie,”The Battle of Britain” Lee auditioned and was told he was “too tall” to look like. Fighter pilot.
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09/08/2012 1:19:03 PM PDT
by
LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually (Hendrix))
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