Saturday 25 December 2010

Christmas Ten

Tree
Decorations
Family
Gifts
Turkey
Old Christmas Songs
Snow
Old Films
Bad Television
Things Closed

Saturday 11 December 2010

Northern Ireland

Europa Hotel
Falls Rd
The Maze
Long Kesh
Bobby Sands
The Bogside
Creggan Estate
Falls Rd
B Specials
Ian Paisley
Brian Faulkner
Captain Nairac
Milltown Cemetery
Mountbatten
Shankill Butchers
Omagh
New Lodge
Bloody Sunday
Aldergrove Airport
Michael Stone
Gerry Adams
Martin McGuiness
South Amargh "Bandit Country"
Shankill Rd
Mull of Kintyre Chinook Crash
Apprentice Boys March
Diplock Courts

Ten Front Men

Bob Geldof
David Bowie
Robbie Williams
Kid Creole
Rod Stewart
Joe Strummer
Howard Devoto
Howlin Pelle Alqvist
Graham Parker
Lou Reed

Male Singers

Robert Plant
Roger Daltrey
Mick Jagger
Paul Rodgers
David Bowie
Bryan Ferry
Marc Almond
George Michael
Holly Johnson
Art Garfunkel
Bruce Springsteen
Ray Davies
Ronnie Van Zandt
David Crosby
Graham Nash
Michael McDonald

Female Singers

Siouxsie
Florence
Grace Slick
Chrissie Hynde
Cher
K D Lang
Linda Rondstadt
Diana Ross
Ella Fitzgerald
Aretha Franklin
Lulu
Cilla Black
Dusty Springfield
Annie Lennox
Sandy Shaw
Karen Carpenter
Lisa Stansfield
Pauline Black
Joni Mitchell
Carole King
Sonia Krystyna
Janis Ian
Janis Joplin
Alison Moyet
Kylie
Tina Turner

Japanese Emperors

Hirohito
Akihito

Security Services

KGB
Gestapo
CIA
MI5
Mossad
DGSE
Stasi

Terrorists / Revolutionaries

Bin Laden
The Jackal
Menachem Begin
Yasser Arafat
Gerry Adams
"Slab" Murphy
Martin McGuinness
Michael Stone
Che Guevara
Leila Khaled
Andreas Baader
Ulrike Meinhof
Michael Stone
Patrick McGee

Revolutionary Organisations

MPLA
IRA
PLO
Al Fatah
Red Brigade
RAF
UVF
UDA
Baader Meinhof
Black September
Al Qaeda
Contras
Sandanista
Stern Gang
PFLP
Khmer Rouge

20th Century World Leaders

Ho Chi Minh
Mao Tse Tung
DeGaulle
Franco
Nasser
Sadat
Castro
Saddam Hussein
King Hussein of Jordan
Nixon
Kennedy
Stalin
Lenin
Hitler
Golda Meir
Yasser Arafat
Pol Pot
Tito
Idi Amin
Piet Botha
Nelson Mandela
Mugabe
Ian Smith
Silvio Berlusconi
Gadafi
Alex Dubcek
Joshua Nkomo
President Assad
Pinochet
Galtieri
Mussolini

Disasters

Bhopal
Herald of Free Enterprise/ Zeebrugge
Piper Alpha
Hillsborough
Heysel
Bradford Fire
Concorde
Columbia
Apollo 1
Summerland,IOM
Aberfan
Marchioness
Lockerbie
Moorgate
Twin Towers
Kegworth

German Chancellors

Merkel
Schroder
Kohl
Schmidt
Brandt
Kiesinger
Erhard
Adenhauer

French Presidents

Sarkozy
Chirac
Mitterand
Destaing
Pompidou
Degaulle
Coty

Russian Presidents

Medvedev
Putin
Yeltsin
Gorbachev
Chernenko
Andropov
Brezhnev
Krushchev

American Presidents

Obama
Bush Jnr
Clinton
Bush Snr
Reagan
Carter
Ford
Nixon
Johnson
Kennedy
Eisenhower

Prime Ministers

Cameron
Brown
Blair
Major
Thatcher
Callagahan
Wilson
Heath
Wilson
Douglas Home
Macmillan

Thursday 9 December 2010

Ten Books

Brave New World - Huxley
1984 - Orwell
Animal Farm - Orwell
Wilt - Tom Sharpe
The General - Felby
Grumpy Old Rock Star - Wakeman
Hunt For Red Ocober - Clancy
Catch 22- Heller
Stalingrad - Beevor
Man and Boy - Parsons