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Gehrig Dieter. Gehrig Richard Dieter (born February 24, 1993) is a former American football wide receiver. He played college football at the University of Alabama, Bowling Green State University, and Southern Methodist University (SMU). After going undrafted in the 2017 NFL draft, he signed with the Kansas City Chiefs as an undrafted free agent.
On April 18, 2014, 16 Sherpas were killed in an avalanche in the Khumbu Icefall. [ 11][ 12][ 13] On April 25, 2015, 19 people—the most ever in a single day on Everest—were killed in an avalanche at base camp after a 7.8 earthquake, which killed more than 9,000 people and injured more than 23,000 in Nepal. [ 14][ 15][ 16] During the 2023 ...
Hans-Dieter Mundt, a former low level Stasi officer who murdered Samuel Fennan a few years prior, has risen to power in the counterintelligence section and systematically eradicates the network. Leamas attempts to save Karl Riemeck, his final undercover source and member of the praesidium of the Socialist Unity Party , but fails, witnessing his ...
This article is a list of heads of state and government who have survived assassination attempts. Many notable heads of state and heads of government have been survivors of assassination attempts. For survivors who were neither, see List of people who survived assassination attempts. For successful assassinations, see List of assassinations.
t. e. Dietrich Bonhoeffer ( German: [ˈdiːtʁɪç ˈbɔnhøːfɐ] ⓘ; 4 February 1906 – 9 April 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian and anti- Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world have become widely influential; his 1937 book The Cost of ...
Heinz Guderian. Heinz Wilhelm Guderian ( German: [haɪnts ˈvɪlhɛlm ɡuˈdeːʁi.an]; 17 June 1888 – 14 May 1954) was a German general during World War II who, after the war, became a successful memoirist. An early pioneer and advocate of the "blitzkrieg" approach, he played a central role in the development of the panzer division concept.
A Legacy of Spies is both a prequel and sequel to John le Carré's The Spy Who Came In from the Cold.In that book, MI6 agent Alec Leamas, motivated by the death of his operative Karl Riemeck in East Berlin, agrees to undertake one final mission to get revenge on the man he believes to be Riemeck's murderer, a high-ranking member of the Stasi named Hans-Dieter Mundt.
A Murder of Quality. Call for the Dead is John le Carré 's first novel, published in 1961. It introduces George Smiley, the most famous of le Carré's recurring characters, in a story about East German spies inside Great Britain. [ 1] It also introduces a fictional version of British Intelligence, called "the Circus" because of its location in ...