• The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service is a 1903 novel by Erskine Childers. The book, which enjoyed immense popularity in the years before...
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  • The Riddle of the Sands is a 1979 British spy thriller cinema film based upon the novel of the same name written by Erskine Childers. Set in 1901, and...
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    Erskine Childers (author) (category British Army personnel of the Second Boer War)
    writer with accounts of the Second Boer War, the novel The Riddle of the Sands about German preparations for a sea-borne invasion of England, and proposals...
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  • One of his early roles was that of Kaiser Wilhelm II in Michael York's adventure film The Riddle of the Sands. One of his best-known roles was that of Hermann...
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  • Simon MacCorkindale (category English people of Scottish descent)
    He appeared in a variety of films and TV series including Quatermass (1979), The Riddle of the Sands (1979), The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982) and Jaws...
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    Jenny Agutter (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    a Supporting Role—and The Riddle of the Sands (1979). In 1981, she co-starred in The Survivor, an Australian adaptation of the James Herbert novel by...
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  • Olga Lowe (category South African emigrants to the United Kingdom)
    Dare, Carry On Abroad, Steptoe and Son Ride Again and The Riddle of the Sands. Lowe, who was of Russian Jewish descent on her father's side, was born...
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    Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (Pennsylvania Electronic ed.). Brown, James (January 1998). "'Ozymandias': The Riddle of the Sands". The Keats-Shelley...
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    Toby Stephens (category Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art)
    appeared in films in the United Kingdom, United States, and India. He is known for the roles of Bond villain Gustav Graves in the 2002 James Bond film...
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    Michael Sheard (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
    (1979) as Sergeant Mann The Riddle of the Sands (1979) as Böehme All Quiet on the Western Front (1979) as Paul's father The Empire Strikes Back (1980)...
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    Memmert (category Islands of Lower Saxony)
    The island plays an important role in Erskine Childers's novel, The Riddle of the Sands (1903). Otto Leege [de] "What玸 Memmert Island?". armin-rose.de...
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    punish those who destroyed his life. The first recognizable modern thriller was Erskine Childers' The Riddle of the Sands (1903), in which two young Englishmen...
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  • Tony Maylam (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
    White Rock, the 1979 thriller The Riddle of the Sands, and horror films such as The Burning and Split Second. Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art...
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  • Erskine Hamilton Childers (category Members of the 10th Dáil)
    republican and author of the espionage thriller The Riddle of the Sands, was executed during the Irish Civil War. Childers was born in the Embankment Gardens...
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    Asgard (yacht) (category Ships of Ireland)
    is sometimes mistaken for Dulcibella, the boat in Robert Erskine Childers's classic novel The Riddle of the Sands. This was based on a smaller vessel,...
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    aristocrats from the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution (1789–99). But the term "spy novel" was defined by The Riddle of the Sands (1903) by Irish...
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  • Das Rätsel der Sandbank (category Television series set in the 1900s)
    German television series based on the 1903 novel The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers. It was produced by the public television and radio station...
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    Michael York (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    You My Mother? (1986) and the AMC series The Lot (2001). In 2002, York received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to motion pictures...
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  • budget of £10 million. (The others were Wombling Free, The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, The Riddle of the Sands, Silver Dream Racer, Tarka the Otter and...
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    Childers's 1903 novel The Riddle of the Sands. Often called the first modern spy novel, two men on a sailing holiday thwart a German invasion of England when they...
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  • Battle of the Coral Sea, 1959 Dulcibella – The Riddle of the Sands, 1979 USS Dwight D. Flysenhower – Planes, 2013 USS Echo – sailing ship from The Wackiest...
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  • Gulliver's Travels (1977), The Thirty Nine Steps (1978), and The Riddle of the Sands (1979). Sian Barber points out that while adaptations of highbrow and middlebrow...
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    Howard Blake (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    (1970) All the Way Up (1970) The Duellists (1977) The Odd Job (1978) The Riddle of the Sands (1979) S.O.S. Titanic (1979) Flash Gordon (1980) The Snowman...
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    Childers's novel The Riddle of the Sands portrays the threatening nature of the German Empire. Elspeth Huxley's novel Red Strangers shows the effects on local...
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    film The Riddle of the Sands. At the same time, conspiracy theories which combined Germanophobia with antisemitism were concocted, they focused on the supposed...
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  • Alan Badel (category British Army personnel of World War II)
    (1955), a biopic about the composer. He also played the role of Karl Denny, the impresario, in the film Bitter Harvest (1963). Around the same time he played...
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  • prominence in the use of 3D-technology in filmmaking after the success of Avatar in the format, with releases such as Alice in Wonderland, Clash of the Titans...
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  • Sam Llewellyn (category People from the Isles of Scilly)
    a. Sea Story) The Shadow in the Sands, 1998, ISBN 0-7472-6005-2 (a "sequel" to the Erskine Childers novel "The Riddle of the Sands") The Sea Garden, 1999...
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  • Following Quatermass, MacCorkindale appeared in The Riddle of the Sands (1979), and subsequently moved to the United States where, after playing a few guest...
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    soldiers for the first time in 2011. 1864 – 2014 Danish television historical drama In The Riddle of the Sands (1903, Erskine Childers), Chapter V, the protagonists...
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