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I made that wallpaper! (along with some more I couldn't spot in the trailer)
Oscar nominations in writing to the AMPAS please.
Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the legendary codebreaker and computer boffin, will open the prestigious London Film Festival in early October. Official Imitation Game trailer on YouTube. The British Film Institute announced that The Imitation Game, a dramatisation of Turing’s life, …
"Do the Poles get credit?" / http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28167071
Well, well. It looks yet again that great chunks of history have been left out of my education yet again. I'm getting a bit annoyed by these not-accidental lacunae. Thanks for that link.
And whoever Cicely M. Popplewell is, she doesn't even have a wiki page. Curiously, amazon's got one of her books though <http://www.amazon.co.uk/Information-Processing-1962-Cicely-Popplewell/dp/B000LZH40S>
You may notice that WWII was started to guarantee that the german town of Danzig remained in Poland, but ended with Poland ravaged and handed to Stalin on a platter while the lying liar FDR maintained to the end (which is to say, until the presidential elections were over and had obtained the polish vote) that Poland would be get a dose of freedom and that Stalin had jolly well agreed to this. This was then followed up with operation Keelhaul, about which the less said the better.
Any correlations with current events are totally unintended and no animals are being harmed.
I am sure that everyone who worked there was amply deserving of the accolades that only a few were given but this is not centred upon Enigma, nor Bletchley. It is very much focussed upon Alan Turing, his mathematics and his personal life or, as Hodges puts it, 'to overcome the twentieth-century chasm between scientific thought and human life,'.
History being rewritten by the victors is just as bad as it being written by those with an agenda. 1969s giant leap for mankind was made possible by War criminals who also thought up the idea of a fleet of subs firing V2 rockets at the continental USA. But NASA won't be mentioning that anytime soon.
No but you can have the manga instead. Possibly a bit apocryphal though.