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Golightly
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 Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 9:30 pm Post subject: six degrees of separation from Ataturk |
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Just a bit of fun, this one!
Who's got the closest to the Buyuk Onder?
I can claim it from two directions:
Via my wife, who used to work for Anavatan (remember them?) - she worked in close collaboration with Mesut Yilmaz et al, and with old Suleyman Demirel, through whom they knew those who had known Ataturk;
And - in some ways a more negative and tenuous connection - my great-grandfather was in charge of the gun batteries on HMS Minerva during the Gallipoli campaign, and there was a good chance he came close to topping the Big Man himself! |
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dmb
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| Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 10:29 am Post subject: |
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| An ex girlfriends grandmother was his neighbour in selonika |
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Baba Alex
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| Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 4:24 pm Post subject: Re: six degrees of separation from Ataturk |
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| Golightly wrote: |
Just a bit of fun, this one!
Who's got the closest to the Buyuk Onder?
I can claim it from two directions:
Via my wife, who used to work for Anavatan (remember them?) - she worked in close collaboration with Mesut Yilmaz et al, and with old Suleyman Demirel, through whom they knew those who had known Ataturk;
And - in some ways a more negative and tenuous connection - my great-grandfather was in charge of the gun batteries on HMS Minerva during the Gallipoli campaign, and there was a good chance he came close to topping the Big Man himself! |
Can't claim that much of a connection myself, but it has been noted by many people that I have more than a passing reseblance to the old horse
Me
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Golightly
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| Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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for some reason that I can't remember, we used to call the Big Man 'Billy', and all the cash we got on the twentieth of each month a stack of Billy Notes. I guess he just looked like a William.  |
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Bogazicibaby
Joined: 22 May 2003
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Location: Istanbul
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| Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 9:09 pm Post subject: world trade center |
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| Does anybody know of or has met anyone who visited the World Trade Center on Sept 10th 2001? I mean, that place got thousands of visitors every day, so there must be a lot of people out there feeling pretty lucky. |
Yeah, I was at the World Trade Center the evening of 10 September. It was only because I got home at 2:30 in the morning that I didn't go back into the city the next day. If I had, I would have joined my aunt in being covered in powdered glass and who knows what else and walking across the Brooklyn Bridge on foot.
A person in my aunt's office (Federal Transit Authority- not located in the World Trade Center) was on 60 something floor of the World Trade Center and ended up at the other side of the Brooklyn Bridge at about the same time my Aunt got there. He had some horrific stories to tell.
I have some nice photos of the day before and the day of. My aunt is a photo freak and just had to stop and take photos, drop the film off to be developed and get a coffee before gong to work--- which being a federal building was locked and closed to entry by the time she got there. |
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whynotme
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| Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 12:41 pm Post subject: |
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| dmb wrote: |
| An ex girlfriends grandmother was his neighbour in selonika |
you mean gf's grandmother's mother? |
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dmb
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:13 am Post subject: |
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| Grandmother.She was a kid at the time. |
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