Professor Alan Turing of Manchester University, founder of computer science and breaker of Nazi naval ciphers, died by his own hand after being threatened with jail and stripped of his security clearance because he was gay. He ate an apple dosed with cyanide. In case you have ever wondered, Apple Computer’s logo is a memorial…
Read More On this day in 1954..one of Viktor Bout’s old aeroplanes turned up next door in Rwanda. In a hurry, so will simply report that the Tupolev 154 that belonged to two of his operations, Mold-Transavia and Centrafricain, and was involved in the “she-guns” affair, is now apparently registered in Rwanda by something called “Regional International Air Services”. Given the…
Read More How strange. As things went bad again in the Congo..