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September 5, 1986
My last full day in Europe
Storm in a Teacup: The song was performed by THE FORTUNES (I'm trying). Click the TARGET graphic above for that version that's ripe for a re-make. THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS have a different tune with the same title. Click the spoon for that version.
September 5, 1986, and I am in Geneva Switzerland spending my last full 24-hour day in Europe. I had $300 left from my earnings in London, and my American Express travelers checks. I didn't want to leave Europe, but my student ticket coupon purchased in June in London was non-refundable. In Geneva that day, I purchased a traditional hand carved wooden Black Forest cuckoo clock. I also took the United Nations tour (postcard at the bottom of this page). I departed on Swiss Air for the U.S. a day later. The proverbial 'storm in a teacup' on September 5 was with Pan Am Flight 73. Four Pakistani men claiming to be with the Abu Nidal Organization carried out the hijacking. The flight crew left the cockpit through the Inertial Reel Escape Device to after the hijackers came aboard. After a siege of several hours, 22 of the 365 passengers & crew were killed with bullets and explosives:
In 2016, Bollywood released a film about the hijacking that was allegedly carried out by the Abu Nidal Organization.
In Atlanta, September 5, 1986, event planners are getting ready to open "Tight Squeeze," the Atlanta Arts Festival in Midtown.
The festival opened September 6, as the aftermath of the PAA73 attack was being managed at the airport in Karachi Pakistan. The Abu Nidal (anagram: "DIAL A BUN.") Organization has been blamed for the mayhem. About 2003, I found the Tight Squeeze art poster at a thrift store. Also above: My passport re-entry stamp scanned for use in an IPL newsletter issue of Herald of Free Enterprise.
Newspaper archives from 1986 show that Nicholas Daniloff, whose anagram is "AND I CAN OFF HOLLIS," was still in detention in the USSR on September 5, 1986, when PAA73 was attacked. The letter to Reagan from Gorbachev was penned the same day that I was en-route back to Atlanta. This letter was declassified October 16, 2008. Update from the Wikipedia folks, Daniloff's grandfather was Yuri Danilov, Chief of Operations at Russian Imperial Army General Headquarters during WW1. Apparently, he worked for Grandad's father (see HOME PAGE).
In October 1986, a month after I have returned from Europe, the hilarious AT&T ad above ran in National Geographic. Hilarious because we know that google facial recognition technology isn't around yet, but I recognized myself, and a Credit Manager from a small business in Athens, GA that I worked for (the R&B). Of course you're convinced it's me! You've checked out those WORD SEARCH puzzles below before. Anyway, in Paris in September 1986 (I was there for a week in August), there were five bombs that exploded, each causing casualties. A sixth was located before it exploded. Click the ad above only if you want to see the article at wiki. Also in October 1986, the same month this ad ran, I attended the opening of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library in Atlanta. My 1985 college photo is one click away.
And what was at the top of the charts when I return from Europe on 9-6-1986? Venus by the British rock trio Bananarama. "... yeah baby she's got it... " And from the video, you can see that it burns. There is a familiar face in Venus so the video is uploaded here. Strangely enough, Let's Go All the Way by Sly Fox was released in the U.S. on the same day that I arrived in England, 12-28-1985, and of course that's a song title that brings to mind the Roman Goddess of Love, Venus. And other than the planet or the goddess, what is 'Venus?' See the book below.
The English band Bananarama named their song after the Roman Goddess of Love; Venus. Circa 30 years ago, some DJ's in Atlanta were discussing the old 1800's saying, "A night with Venus, a lifetime with Mercury." It's a book title now. The chemical element mercury (Hg & atomic number 80), also known as 'quicksilver,' was used as the treatment for syphilis until the cure in 1929. Mercury prevented the bacterial infection from reaching the brain, so it was an effective treatment. But mercury treatments were required for life, and were ineffective in stopping the transmission of the disease. With this history lesson, the video Venus can be seen in a whole knew light.
...and Tricia vs. Howard in Matchgame '78? yeah, i know that too. Sue me?
That's the end of the synopsis of my last full day in Europe back in 1986. You can move beyond the day that's covered here if you like. Mostly WORD SEARCH puzzles ahead. Not really UNDER CONSTRUCTION, but I will probably reorganize it later.
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Megrahi and Nidal featured several times in this Globe WORD SEARCH from the last week in October 2019.
Let's digress a bit more for a moment to catch up on a point. I was impressed with how the June 1981 WORD SEARCH anagram, "VOICE I.D. TRY US." (seen below) complemented the AT&T ad from October 1986. Click either of the WORD SEARCH puzzles below to get to read a bit about our summer college studies and tour at that UIA tab.
Who is Abu Nidal? He was accused for the September 5, 1986 incident aboard PAA73. Nidal was born in Jaffa to a large family that owned 6,000 acres of orange groves. He was born as Sabri Khalil al-Banna, and Abu Nidal was his 'stage name.' Clicking the 1-9-1989 Newsweek article (published 3 weeks after the explosion of PAA103 over Lockerbie Scotland) above takes you back to Pan Am Flight 103 page, the Pops Place comic, the McD holograph ad, the glass rock, the cryptic WORD SEARCH games, the trial... Anyway, this issue of Newsweek was in Kmart stores across America (including Puerto Rico) the week before I was offered a promotion (1-13-1989) from Cornelia, GA, to their store on Jimmy Carter Blvd in Norcross, where I had trained as an Assistant Apparel Manager:
Back from Europe and my first corporate job was with K-Mart, where a college degree was required for a management position, and Tight Squeeze was the time you had for a social life with your 50 hour work week. For several years in the early 1990's, Kmart new hires were given only one vacation week per year for their first 5 years of employment. Click the 1987 recruitment brochure above for a global overview of vacation time you get starting in year 1 of employment.
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Homage to the DIAL A BUN anagram of Abu Nidal? Not exactly. The McDonald Brick was installed at the house back in 1968, which was the year the Big Mac was introduced. Click the brick for a tour in IPL.
... it's nearly the one-year anniversary of the Lion Air crash (that's a 'rebus' joke). But I think there is no point. Click on any puzzle above to see a video on WORD SEARCH coding only if you're an interested TECHNO GEEK. Seriously, it is a video on WORD SEARCH coding that's at you-tube. If you can figure out from the WORD SEARCH video what's at the Google facial recognition technology database, we'll swap notes before burning. I was impressed, but exercising those cryptic skills takes a lot of time. You've gotten this far. It's a good time to watch Rockwell's Somebody's Watching Me. click it.
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Who was Robert T. Hollis, Sr.? Per the HOME tab, he is Alexei Romanoff, and we are ready to pitching a movie about his move to Georgia USA. At the '11-21-2009 Genetics Information NDA' tab, you can review the government document that went into effect on his 100th birthday. Decide which version at which tab about RTH Sr. is more believable.
Above: a photo of Jeff Tracy, who is the puppet from THUNDERBIRDS. He is the one in the show that most resembles a younger version of RTH, Sr.
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The links below will navigate you through much of the web page here. ROYAL ANAGRAMS virtually validates all of the work and research you find here. You will believe everything read and implied when you know the ROYAL ANAGRAMS, plus you are more likely to remember most of it too. Some stories here started long before the birth of Prince Charles in 1948. Visit ROYAL ANAGRAMS first, so that you understand the points made at other pages. From ROYAL ANAGRAMS, visit the HOME page, and read the goals of the LAYORLIAR website. As you read at the HOME page, one goal is to prove that Alexei Romanov is under the RTH, Sr. grave marker seen below. -- In the HOME icon, Alexei is pictured in striped swim trunks like the 1959 1st edition Barbie. The guitarist with Cheap Trick wears a similar top in the 1982 hit She's Tight. I recommend the Intellectual Property Law (IPL) tab next, which includes the Andy Warhol painting of the newspaper that was published the day I was born. Plus the book titled Fourth of June from 1962 (my day and year of birth), along with more movie clips and doppelgangers. After IPL go anywhere. ---- Click the Robert Thomas Hollis (anagram: "OL' BIRTH SHAMS TO ROLE.") grave marker to read about HR493, which the Genetics Information Non-Discrimination Act, which went into effect on the 100th birthday of RTS, Sr. The DOPPELGANGERS icon is a small introduction of family photos and the look-a-like royals, models, celebs, etc. ---- There is more of that at the TWILIGHT ZONE tab. Remember what happened to Dan Hollis at Anthony Freemont's birthday party? The Twilight Zone is peppered with WORD SEARCH puzzles, and information on a few episodes which have already been identified as your favorites. DUGOUT WITH WEIRD SCIENCE is as macabre as TWILIGHT ZONE. From there, tour the pages of TWA847, PAN AM FLIGHT 103, and ON MY LAST FULL DAY IN EUROPE (PAA73) for airplane drama. SPY GAMES LEO and RKH tabs are meant to entertain you mostly, but will also assist you in 'decrypting' secret 'babble' planted in movies, tv shows, books, puzzles, etc. And finally, McDONALD'S BRICK explains the purpose of jots. Save that tab for the end of your tour of the LAYORLIAR webpage.
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