• Walter Herman Wager (September 4, 1924 – July 11, 2004) was an American crime and espionage-thriller novelist and former editor-in-chief of Playbill magazine...
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  • mountaineer Michael Wager (1925–2011), American actor Tor Wager, American neuroscientist Walter Wager (1924–2004), American novelist HMS Wager (1739), a square-rigged...
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    Pascal's wager is a philosophical argument advanced by Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), seventeenth-century French mathematician, philosopher, physicist, and...
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  • 58 Minutes is a 1987 thriller novel by American novelist Walter Wager. The novel was the basis for the 1990 film Die Hard 2. Frank Malone is a divorced...
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  • by Peter Hyams and Stirling Silliphant is based on the 1975 novel by Walter Wager. After the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union planted a number of...
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    Wager Mutiny took place in 1741, after the British warship HMS Wager was wrecked on a desolate island off the south coast of present-day Chile. Wager...
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  • at the Bavaria Studios. Loosely based on a 1971 novel, Viper Three by Walter Wager, it tells the story of Lawrence Dell, a renegade United States Air Force...
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    Impossible #4: Code Name: Little Ivan by Walter Wager as "John Tiger" (1969) Whereas "John Tiger" was a pseudonym Walter Wager devised for himself (initially for...
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  • Impossible books Title Release date Author Note(s) Mission: Impossible 1 1967 Walter Wager (credited as John Tiger) Part of a series Mission: Impossible 2: Code...
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  • Telford, Major Grant's radio operator. The screenplay was adapted from Walter Wager's 1987 novel 58 Minutes. The novel has the same plot but differs slightly:...
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    Wager Island (Spanish: Isla Wager) is an uninhabited island in Guayaneco Archipelago, a remote part of western Patagonia. Located 1,600 kilometres (990...
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  • Bronson and Lee Remick, and based off the 1975 novel of the same name by Walter Wager. It was used as a plot device involving a group of Soviet sleeper agents...
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  • Roderick Thorp. Die Hard 2 was adapted from the 1987 novel 58 Minutes by Walter Wager. Die Hard with a Vengeance was adapted from a script called Simon Says...
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  • 1970) and other novels by Donald E. Westlake Sledgehammer (1971) by Walter Wager A Tough One to Lose (1972) by Tony Kenrick The Taking of Pelham One Two...
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  • Valley-Westside War by Harry Turtledove Vaneglory by George Turner Viper Three by Walter Wager Warday by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka When the Wind Blows by Raymond...
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  • edited by Stephen Jones Earphones Award Winner 2017 58 Minutes (1987) by Walter Wager Voice Arts Award for Audiobook Narration – Fiction, Best Voiceover Nominee...
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  • The Atheist's wager, coined by the philosopher Michael Martin and published in his 1990 book Atheism: A Philosophical Justification, is an atheistic response...
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  • the series were published, most written in the mid-to-late 1960s by Walter Wager under the pseudonym "John Tiger." The I Spy novels were published by...
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  • Shantidoot 01 (শান্তিদূত ০১) Messenger of Peace Based on Telefon by Walter Wager. Spy thriller 1987 150 Shantidoot 02 (শান্তিদূত ০২) 1988 151 094 Shwet...
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  • 1955), composer, music educator, bandmaster Mildred Lund Tyson, composer Walter Wager, author Nike Wagner, author Kate Walbert (B.A. 1983), National Book Award-nominated...
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    Trial by combat (also wager of battle, trial by battle or judicial duel) was a method of Germanic law to settle accusations in the absence of witnesses...
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  • of legal thrillers Scott Turow (J.D. 1978), author of legal thrillers Walter Wager, mystery and spy fiction novelist Ayelet Waldman (J.D. 1991), novelist;...
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  • Camp Tuto, 7, 8, and 15 October 1961. Camp Century: City under the Ice. Walter Wager, Chilton, Philadelphia, 1962. CRREL's First 25 Years: 1961–1986. Edmund...
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  • Ann Wager (1716 – August 20, 1774) was a teacher and schoolmistress in colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. She married William Wager, but was widowed in...
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  • Nothing Lasts Forever. Other aspects are derived from Frank Malone from Walter Wager's 1987 novel 58 Minutes (adapted as Die Hard 2). Die Hard villain Hans...
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  • Twilight's Last Gleaming (movie, 1977) based on Viper Three (novel, 1971) by Walter Wager A group of military convicts seizes control of an ICBM complex and demands:...
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  • French actress. Edkhyam Tenishev, 83, Soviet and Russian linguist. Walter Wager, 79, American author, cancer. George Mallaby, 64, British-Australian...
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  • defendant handling her own case. 6 "Bedeviled Angel" Joshua Shelley Walter Wager November 10, 1977 (1977-11-10) A woman tries to use counterfeit bills...
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    Admiral Sir Charles Wager PC (24 February 1666 – 24 May 1743) was an English Royal Navy officer and politician who served as First Lord of the Admiralty...
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  • Campbell Black". "Raw Deal: A Novelization - Walter Wager, Gary M. DeVore, Norman Wexler". "Raw Deal by Walter Wager". "Red Heat by Robert Tine". "The Saint...
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