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I also read that Bogart, and Winston Churchill, wore Tabarome.

Not a Wright house. I have agree with TM. My guess is the Wright's name is being used to increase interest and bump up the price. Here in St. Louis, Wright's name is often invoked when selling prarie style houses by Taliesin-trained architects like William Bernoudy. As TM stated, Wright is...

Like many other British programs, "Cracker" was remade in the US in 1997. It starred the late Robert Pastorelli as Fitz. I really got in to shows like "Touching Evil" back in the 1990s on PBS's "Mystery!", and I really enjoyed them. I also enjoyed the American remake of "Touching Evil" with...

You need to put some some "year of model" plates on your car instead of those brand new 6-series plates.

Ask the British police. I have five. Two are comb top (Kent and West Yorkshire) and three are rose top (Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, and Sussex), plus several peaked caps and WPC bowlers. I started the collection about 10 years ago when I was in high school. I simply wrote letters addressed...

I know many of you will disagree, but I think TCM is doing a good job. As was stated before, "Rush Hour 2" was shown as part of TCM's month-long "Asians Images In Film" series. The series of films was shown in chronological order, so the month ended with contemporary films. It should be...

I have to agree with Orgetorix. It's not what they wear, it's how they wear it. I don't think they choose a suit to look "faintly ominous," but rather "professional." More important than the badge and gun, is the attitude and demeanor. I think you'll find that people in law enforcement, from...

Here are two caps I have. The one on the left is one of my grandfather's caps. It's a Herbert Johnson with an adjustable strap in the back. The one on the right is one I bought when I was with my grandfather at an estate sale a few years ago. I bought it for about $20. I don't know...

Indeed, and nobody did the look better than James Garner as Jim Rockford.

Who told you that? I've never heard that story before.

"Law and Order" magazine publishes the winners of the NAUMD "Best Dressed" competition every year. While the WSP won this year in the state agency category, the Tennessee Highway Patrol and the California Highway Patrol were both awarded "outstanding achievement." In 2005, the Delaware State...

I'm happy to hear that your uncle made it through the war, but I'm also sorry to hear he died not long after. My grandfather was less-seriously wounded than your uncle when the FW-190 shot up his B-17. My point was that everyone's experiences were different. Not only that, there was a wide...

While a pilot could have carried all that stuff, it would have been taken from him once he was captured. As I mentioned in an earlier post, my grandfather was captured by the Germans and sent to Stalag Luft III. When he was captured, the Germans took nearly everything he had including his...

Actually, I meant POW camps run by the Luftwaffe, like Stalag Luft III, had a reputation for having better conditions than the camps run by the Heer. The Luftwaffe ran the POW camps for captured aviators, such as members of the RAF, RN - Fleet Air Arm, and the USAAF.

I think it varied from camp to camp. My grandfather is Jewish. He mentioned that the officer who interrogated him after he was captured had threatened him. He hasn't said anything to me about being treated differently while at Stalag Luft III. That wasn't always the case. In some camps, the...