Richard Todd is the only cast member of "The Longest Day" listed as both a character and an actor. He was a paratrooper in WW2 and the second man onto Pegasus bridge. He plays Major Howard, the man he followed onto it. Major Howard himself was the film's technical advisor. The two had fun on set

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'The Reformer' a name with more than a passing resemblance to 'The Stormer' or Der Stürmer, as it was known in German. A resemblance that literally everyone in the party knows about and enjoys. What a bundle of kidders they are.

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This reminded me of one of the stories my grandma most loved to tell, about the time she (at the time a young girl) cycled on her bike to carry some money to her father's Jewish business partner, to help him flee to Switzerland.

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This is really, really cool. The URL *is* the document. So you can effectively do word processing in your browser... without it leaving your computer. Or... you can send it to others *in the URL*. This is really fantastic.

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Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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