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Lagardère Group subsidiary, Hachette Filipacchi Médias began pushing Elle outside of France in 1985, launching Elle in the UK and the United States.

In 1994, Matra became a subsidiary of the Lagardère Group and in February 1999, Matra Hautes Technologies (MHT), which represented

the conglomerate's aerospace, defence and telecommunications arm, was merged with the French aerospace corporation Aérospatiale to form Aérospatiale-Matra (now Airbus).

Jean-Luc Lagardère (10 February 1928 – 14 March 2003) was a major Frenchbusinessman, CEO of the

Lagardère Group, one of the largest French conglomerates.

In 1981, with his friend Daniel Filipacchi, Lagardère purchased Hachette magazines, which included the French TV Guide (Tele 7 Jours), and the then-struggling Elle magazine.

After Peter Diamandis's departure three

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Apr 29

Veteran CIA spook sheds his cloak for Hollywood limelight – Chicago Tribune

Though the film, The Good Shepard, is the brainchild of Eric Roth, who labored on the script for years, much of the credit for its pungent air of authenticity goes to chicagotribune.com/2006/12/23/vet…

Milton Bearden, the film’s technical adviser and a 30-year veteran of clandestine services in the CIA. It was Bearden who introduced De Niro to the retired KGB officers in Moscow. Now 66 and retired for more than a decade, Bearden has a new career writing books and helping

Hollywood spy tales be a bit more believable — he’s currently at work advising Mike Nichols on “Charlie Wilson’s War,” which stars Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts.

Milton Bearden met Robert De Niro through Richard Holbrooke, the former United Nations ambassador.

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Apr 28

Danny Casolaro - Wikipedia

Michael Riconosciuto had been introduced to a friend of Danny Casolaro's by Jeff Steinberg, a longtime top aide in the LaRouche organization.

Riconosciuto told Bill Hamilton that he and Earl Brian, a director of Hadron, Inc., en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Cas…

a government consulting firm, had paid $40 million to Iranian officials in 1980 to persuade them not to release the American hostages before the conclusion of the presidential election that saw Ronald Reagan elected president of the United States; this is the claim now known as

the "October Surprise".

In 1980, Earl Brian established his own company, Biotech Capital, a venture capital firm that invested in companies developing medical technology.

Biotech later shifted its focus to news and information services, acquiring interest in the

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Apr 25

John Sowden House - Wikipedia

The original owner, John Sowden, was a painter and photographer who hired his friend, Lloyd Wright (eldest son of Frank Lloyd Wright), to build his home on Franklin Ave in Los Feliz.
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From 1945 through 1950, the house was owned by Dr. George Hodel, a Los Angeles physician who was a prime suspect in the infamous Black Dahlia murder.

In 1940, Hodel married Dorothy Harvey, John Huston's ex-wife.

During his marriage to Lesley Black, John Huston embarked on an

affair with a married New York socialite, Marietta FitzGerald.

Dez Fitzgerald was recruited to the CIA's Office of Policy Coordination by Frank Wisner in 1950.

In July 1967, while playing tennis with his wife, the British Ambassador to the United States Patrick Dean, and the

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Apr 21

Bing Crosby - Wikipedia

Crosby influenced the development of the post–World War II recording industry. After seeing a demonstration of a German broadcast quality reel-to-reel tape recorder brought to the United States by John T. Mullin, Crosby en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_Cros…

invested $50,000 in the California electronics company Ampex to build copies.

Mullin served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War II. He was posted to Paris in the final months of the war, where his unit was assigned to find out everything they could about German radio

and electronics. They found and collected hundreds of low-quality field dictating machines but the major discovery came when Mullin visited Germany just before the end of the war. He was sent to inspect a site near Frankfurt, where the Germans had reputedly been experimenting

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Apr 20

Watchmen - Wikipedia

Watchmen depicts an alternate history in which superheroes emerged in the 1940s and 1960s and their presence changed history so that the United States won the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal was never exposed. In 1985 the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen

country is edging toward World War III with the Soviet Union, freelance costumed vigilantes have been outlawed and most former superheroes are in retirement or working for the government.

Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English author known primarily for his work in

comic books including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The Ballad of Halo Jones, Swamp Thing, Batman: The Killing Joke, and From Hell.

He is widely recognised among his peers and critics as one of the best comic book writers in the English language.

Alan Moore was born on

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