Word: waterloo
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What if? is history's forever teasing and unanswerable question. What if Marshal Ney's troops had not sat eating lunch before Waterloo while the Duke of Wellington retreated to safety? Etcetera. To all such historic posers must now be added questions raised by a retired British group captain named Frederick Winterbotham. What if a Pole working in a German factory had not defected to the Allies in 1938, bringing with him the first construction details of the Nazis' coding machine, called Enigma? And what if British cryptographers had not eventually cracked Enigma's supposedly unbreakable...
...concert allowed the audience to have its cake and eat, too. The first part, which lasted close to an hour, consisted of a well-chosen selection of former hits including such favorites as "You Really Got Me," "Celluloid Heroes," "Skin and Bones," "Here Comes Yet Another Day," and "Waterloo Sunset." When Ray Davies wasn't flopping around like a marionette with rubber bands instead of strings for support, he was either pinching brother and lead guitarist Dave Davies or exercising his mesmerizing ability on the audience...
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...native England. His solution is for England to be part of a global English-speaking union with Australia, America and Canada, to be governed by a constitutional monarch. It may sound positively Napoleonic, but it has vision-the vision of a bold artist who has yet to meet his Waterloo...