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Vaknin, Sam, 1961-

"The First Book of Factoids"

com/forensics/fingerprints/

http://www.c3.lanl.gov/~brislawn/FBI/FBI.html

http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cjisd/iafis.htm

Fleming, Ian
Ian Lancaster Fleming (1908-1964), the author of the James Bond 007
novels, was the grandson of a Scottish banker and the son of a
Conservative MP (Member of Parliament). His father died in the first
world war. In his will, he bequeathed his property to his widow on
condition she never remarries.
Ian's youth was inauspicious. He was expelled from Eton following a
sexual liaison with a girl. He left Sandhurst without obtaining an
officer's rank, having been caught violating the curfew. He continued
his education in Kitzbuhel, Austria, in Munich and in Geneva where he
studied languages. But the chain of disappointments continued apace.
He failed in a Foreign Service exam and had to join Reuters as a
journalist. There he successfully covered a spy trial in Russia
(1929-32).
He then joined a British investment bank as a stockbroker and moved to
live in a converted temple in Belgravia, a fashionable district of
London, where he entertained the members of the Le Cercle
Gastronomique et des Jeux de Hasard.


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