As a member of a reserve battalion during World War I, Himmler did not see active service. He studied agronomy in university, and joined the Nazi Party in 1923 and the SS in 1925. In 1929, he was appointed Reichsführer-SS by Adolf Hitler. Over the next 16 years, he developed the SS from a mere 290-man battalion into a million-strong paramilitary group, and set up and controlled the Nazi concentration camps. He was known for good organisational skills and for selecting highly competent subordinates, such as Reinhard Heydrich in 1931. From 1943 onwards, he was both Chief of German Police and Minister of the Interior, overseeing all internal and external police and security forces, including the Gestapo (Secret State Police). He controlled the Waffen-SS, the military branch of the SS. Himmler held an interest in varieties of occultism and Völkisch topics, and he employed elements of these beliefs to develop the racial policy of Nazi Germany and incorporated esoteric symbolism and rituals into the SS.
Himmler formed the Einsatzgruppen and built extermination camps. As overseer of the Nazi genocidal programs, Himmler directed the killing of some six million Jews, between 200,000 and 500,000 Romani people, and other victims. The total number of civilians killed by the regime is estimated at eleven to fourteen million people. Most of them were Polish and Soviet citizens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Himmler
Sheba said
12:04 AM Jul 26, 2021
Thanks Sandy. Try this one.
Sheba said
10:55 PM Jul 26, 2021
His downfall was caused by the Taxman.
Big Gorilla said
12:35 PM Jul 27, 2021
Francesco Ioele (January 22, 1893 July 1, 1928), better known as Frankie Uale or Frankie Yale, was a Brooklyn gangster and original employer of Al Capone before the latter moved to Chicago
Sheba said
09:38 PM Jul 27, 2021
You're right BG, although I thought he was some-one else when I posted his Pic.
American Gangster
Francesco Ioele, known as Frankie Yale or Frankie Uale, was an Italian-born American gangster based in Brooklyn and second employer of Al Capone.
Sheba said
09:41 PM Jul 27, 2021
You're right BG, although I thought he was some-one else when I posted his Pic.
FrankieYale was born on January 22, 1893 in Longobardi, Cosenza, Italy as Francesco Ioele. He died on July 1, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. Trivia (1) Organized crime figure who launched the career of Al Capone.
You got it Ann. Your turn to post. I note this was your first post. Welcome to Grey Nomads and our little game.
Keith Richards
English musician
Keith Richards, often referred to during the 1960s and 1970s as Keith Richard, is an English musician, singer, and songwriter. He is best known as the co-founder, guitarist, secondary vocalist, and co-principal songwriter of the Rolling Stones.
He was an industrialist from my home town of Newcastle upon Tyne.
One of his inventions can be found at Fort Taiaroa near the Royal Albatross Centre on the Otago Peninsula.
-- Edited by Drumbeat on Saturday 31st of July 2021 10:22:12 PM
Sheba said
10:37 PM Jul 31, 2021
Is that in New Zealand ?
Wherever, it's still no help to me. Hope some-one else can get him.
sandman55 said
10:55 PM Jul 31, 2021
William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong
Drumbeat said
10:12 PM Aug 1, 2021
You're correct sandman55 - over to you.
William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong CB FRS (26 November 1810 27 December 1900) was an English engineer and industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing concern on Tyneside.
He was the inventor of modern artillery (The Times).
* He was an environmentalist 150 years in advance of his time, advocating water and solar power as substitutes for fossil fuels.
* He built Cragside in Northumberland, the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity.
* He was the worlds first international arms dealer, forging business links with governments around the world, from Brazil to Japan.
* He created the mechanisms that operate Londons Tower Bridge and Newcastles Swing Bridge.
* He restored Englands finest castle Bamburgh, on the Northumberland coast.
* He employed more than 25,000 people at his Elswick Works on the Tyne, a powerhouse of the British Empire.
* He founded Newcastle University, which began life as the College of Science.
sandman55 said
11:02 PM Aug 1, 2021
Thanks Drumbeat I wouldn't have found him without the clue. Now who is this fella
Your too good for me Sheba. I thought out of his Blue clothes I would get away with it. Over to you.
Anthony Donald Joseph Field, AM (born 8 May 1963)[1][2] is an Australian musician, actor, songwriter and producer. He is best known as a member of the children's group the Wiggles and a member of the 1980s and 1990s pop band the ****roaches. While still a teenager, he helped found the ****roaches with his brothers, Paul and John. The ****roaches recorded two albums and enjoyed moderate success, interrupted by Field's service in Australia's regular army, until they disbanded in the late 1980s.
Field attended Macquarie University to receive training in early childhood education, and founded the Wiggles with fellow students Murray Cook, Greg Page and former bandmate Jeff Fatt in 1991. He worked as a preschool teacher for two years before the success of the Wiggles led him to focus on children's music full-time. Despite Field's strong dislike of touring, the Wiggles became one of the most successful and active groups in Australia. Field, whose signature color is blue while performing with the group, was responsible for the production aspects of their stage and television shows, CDs, and DVDs. His issues with chronic pain and depression, which almost forced him out of the group at the height of their success, are well-documented. After the departure of Cook, Fatt, and Page in 2012, he is the only remaining original Wiggle.
Ha! That surely must be my wife's Great, great; great Uncle Vasco da Gama. She recognised him straight away,
But unfortunately I have not got a quick replacement - so if Sally is correct, Sheba has another go!
Mobi Condo said
07:15 PM Aug 4, 2021
Whoops, has my (and my wife's) wry sense of humour upset the game? If so, immense apologies, it really is Sally's honest guess on 1st glance but she is only joking re the chap and relationship.
Sheba said
08:52 PM Aug 4, 2021
Afraid this guy was a Scot.
-- Edited by Sheba on Wednesday 4th of August 2021 08:53:20 PM
sandman55 said
10:09 PM Aug 4, 2021
From the country of my birth Rob Roy MacGregor
Sheba said
10:35 PM Aug 4, 2021
You've got him Sandy. Off you go.
Rob Roy, byname of Robert MacGregor, (baptized March 7, 1671, Buchanan, Stirlingshire, Scotlanddied December 28, 1734, Balquhidder, Perthshire), noted Highland outlaw whose reputation as a Scottish Robin Hood was exaggerated in Sir Walter Scott s novel Rob Roy (1818) and in some passages in the poems of William Wordsworth.
No takers??? This Aboriginal women was one of Australias most significant contemporary artists andwas born at the beginning of the 20th century.
Sheba said
10:08 PM Aug 5, 2021
Afraid I had to ask Mr. Google Sandy. Emily Kame Kngwarreye
sandman55 said
10:53 PM Aug 5, 2021
That's the only way to find them sometimes Sheba, over to you for a pic.
Emily Kame Kngwarreye is one of Australias most significant contemporary artists. Emily was born at the beginning of the 20th century and grew up in a remote desert area known as Utopia, 230 kilometres north-east of Alice Springs, distant from the art world that sought her work.
Although Emily began to paint late in her life she was a prolific artist who often worked at a pace that belied her advanced age. It is estimated that she produced over 3000 paintings in the course of her eight-year painting career an average of one painting per day.
For virtually two-thirds of her life she had only sporadic contact with the outside world. It was not until she was about 80 that she became, almost overnight, an artist of national and international standing.
Her remarkable work was inspired by her cultural life as an Anmatyerre elder, and her lifelong custodianship of the womens Dreaming sites in her clan Country, Alhalkere.
Heinrich Himmler.
You have him Sheba over to you
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (German: [hanç lutplt hml] (listen); 7 October 1900 23 May 1945) was Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), and a leading member of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) of Germany. Himmler was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and a main architect of the Holocaust.
As a member of a reserve battalion during World War I, Himmler did not see active service. He studied agronomy in university, and joined the Nazi Party in 1923 and the SS in 1925. In 1929, he was appointed Reichsführer-SS by Adolf Hitler. Over the next 16 years, he developed the SS from a mere 290-man battalion into a million-strong paramilitary group, and set up and controlled the Nazi concentration camps. He was known for good organisational skills and for selecting highly competent subordinates, such as Reinhard Heydrich in 1931. From 1943 onwards, he was both Chief of German Police and Minister of the Interior, overseeing all internal and external police and security forces, including the Gestapo (Secret State Police). He controlled the Waffen-SS, the military branch of the SS. Himmler held an interest in varieties of occultism and Völkisch topics, and he employed elements of these beliefs to develop the racial policy of Nazi Germany and incorporated esoteric symbolism and rituals into the SS.
Himmler formed the Einsatzgruppen and built extermination camps. As overseer of the Nazi genocidal programs, Himmler directed the killing of some six million Jews, between 200,000 and 500,000 Romani people, and other victims. The total number of civilians killed by the regime is estimated at eleven to fourteen million people. Most of them were Polish and Soviet citizens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Himmler
Thanks Sandy. Try this one.
His downfall was caused by the Taxman.
Francesco Ioele (January 22, 1893 July 1, 1928), better known as Frankie Uale or Frankie Yale, was a Brooklyn gangster and original employer of Al Capone before the latter moved to Chicago
You're right BG, although I thought he was some-one else when I posted his Pic.
Francesco Ioele, known as Frankie Yale or Frankie Uale, was an Italian-born American gangster based in Brooklyn and second employer of Al Capone.
You're right BG, although I thought he was some-one else when I posted his Pic.
Thank You Sheba. Now, who is this ?
You got it Ann. Your turn to post. I note this was your first post. Welcome to Grey Nomads and our little game.
Keith Richards
Thank you for the welcome
Who is this?
We need a clue Ann.
He was an industrialist from my home town of Newcastle upon Tyne.
One of his inventions can be found at Fort Taiaroa near the Royal Albatross Centre on the Otago Peninsula.
-- Edited by Drumbeat on Saturday 31st of July 2021 10:22:12 PM
Is that in New Zealand ?
Wherever, it's still no help to me. Hope some-one else can get him.
William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong
You're correct sandman55 - over to you.
William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong CB FRS (26 November 1810 27 December 1900) was an English engineer and industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing concern on Tyneside.
He was the inventor of modern artillery (The Times).
* He was an environmentalist 150 years in advance of his time, advocating water and solar power as substitutes for fossil fuels.
* He built Cragside in Northumberland, the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity.
* He was the worlds first international arms dealer, forging business links with governments around the world, from Brazil to Japan.
* He created the mechanisms that operate Londons Tower Bridge and Newcastles Swing Bridge.
* He restored Englands finest castle Bamburgh, on the Northumberland coast.
* He employed more than 25,000 people at his Elswick Works on the Tyne, a powerhouse of the British Empire.
* He founded Newcastle University, which began life as the College of Science.
Thanks Drumbeat I wouldn't have found him without the clue. Now who is this fella
Anthony Field.
Your too good for me Sheba. I thought out of his Blue clothes I would get away with it. Over to you.
Anthony Donald Joseph Field, AM (born 8 May 1963)[1][2] is an Australian musician, actor, songwriter and producer. He is best known as a member of the children's group the Wiggles and a member of the 1980s and 1990s pop band the ****roaches. While still a teenager, he helped found the ****roaches with his brothers, Paul and John. The ****roaches recorded two albums and enjoyed moderate success, interrupted by Field's service in Australia's regular army, until they disbanded in the late 1980s.
Field attended Macquarie University to receive training in early childhood education, and founded the Wiggles with fellow students Murray Cook, Greg Page and former bandmate Jeff Fatt in 1991. He worked as a preschool teacher for two years before the success of the Wiggles led him to focus on children's music full-time. Despite Field's strong dislike of touring, the Wiggles became one of the most successful and active groups in Australia. Field, whose signature color is blue while performing with the group, was responsible for the production aspects of their stage and television shows, CDs, and DVDs. His issues with chronic pain and depression, which almost forced him out of the group at the height of their success, are well-documented. After the departure of Cook, Fatt, and Page in 2012, he is the only remaining original Wiggle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Field
Thanks Sandy. Try this one.
Ha! That surely must be my wife's Great, great; great Uncle Vasco da Gama. She recognised him straight away,
But unfortunately I have not got a quick replacement - so if Sally is correct, Sheba has another go!
Whoops, has my (and my wife's) wry sense of humour upset the game? If so, immense apologies, it really is Sally's honest guess on 1st glance but she is only joking re the chap and relationship.
Afraid this guy was a Scot.
-- Edited by Sheba on Wednesday 4th of August 2021 08:53:20 PM
From the country of my birth Rob Roy MacGregor
You've got him Sandy. Off you go.
Rob Roy, byname of Robert MacGregor, (baptized March 7, 1671, Buchanan, Stirlingshire, Scotlanddied December 28, 1734, Balquhidder, Perthshire), noted Highland outlaw whose reputation as a Scottish Robin Hood was exaggerated in Sir Walter Scott s novel Rob Roy (1818) and in some passages in the poems of William Wordsworth.
Thanks Sheba, now who is this lady
No takers??? This Aboriginal women was one of Australias most significant contemporary artists and was born at the beginning of the 20th century.
Afraid I had to ask Mr. Google Sandy. Emily Kame Kngwarreye
That's the only way to find them sometimes Sheba, over to you for a pic.
Emily Kame Kngwarreye is one of Australias most significant contemporary artists. Emily was born at the beginning of the 20th century and grew up in a remote desert area known as Utopia, 230 kilometres north-east of Alice Springs, distant from the art world that sought her work.
Although Emily began to paint late in her life she was a prolific artist who often worked at a pace that belied her advanced age. It is estimated that she produced over 3000 paintings in the course of her eight-year painting career an average of one painting per day.
For virtually two-thirds of her life she had only sporadic contact with the outside world. It was not until she was about 80 that she became, almost overnight, an artist of national and international standing.
Her remarkable work was inspired by her cultural life as an Anmatyerre elder, and her lifelong custodianship of the womens Dreaming sites in her clan Country, Alhalkere.
https://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/utopia/emily-kame-kngwarreye
Thanks Sandy. Who is this ?