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• Born in England in 1908, Ian Fleming was active in military operations during World War II. He started as an assistant to a Rear Admiral and quickly worked his way up to Commander. In 1941 General William Donovan asked Ian to come to Washington, D.C. to draft an outline of how a Secret Service organization should be structured. Ian moved into General Donovan’s spare bedroom while he worked on the project. The plans he drew up laid the foundation for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) which General Donovan headed up and later transformed into the CIA. By 1944 Fleming was masterminding 30 commandos.

• Though he was desk-bound for most of the war, Fleming always wished he could be at the forefront of the action with the real heroes of the war.

• After the war, Fleming moved to Jamaica where he lived on the estate of some wealthy friends. The estate was called Goldeneye. Here he indulged in his passion for writing spy stories.

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• The son of Fleming’s Jamaican hosts was a noted ornithologist who wrote a bird book still in print today. The ornithologist’s name was ‘brief, unromantic, yet very masculine.’ Fleming decided to use that name as the name of his fictional spy hero: James Bond.

• Fleming wrote his first Bond novel, “Casino Royale” in 1952. It was a hit. The 12 novels and 2 collections of short stories he wrote sold over 100 million copies making them among the bestselling books of all time.

• His books have been turned into 27 movies with seven different actors portraying Bond.

• Actors that have played Bond: Sean Connery (7 times), David Niven (1), George Lazenby (1), Roger Moore (7), Timothy Dalton (2), Pierce Brosnan (4) and Daniel Craig (5). Based on boxoffice figures, the most popular James Bond is Sean Connery.

• The films have grossed over $12 billion, making it fourth in franchise movies behind Star Wars, Harry Potter, and Marvel.

• Since Fleming’s death at age 56 in 1964, eight other authors have written Bond novels. Between 1981 and 1996, John Gardner wrote 14 Bond novels and two screenplay adaptations, surpassing Fleming’s output.

• In “From Russia With Love” the train Bond is riding in passes an old man. The old man was Ian Fleming, in a rare cameo.

• Agents 002, 003, 004, and 009 have been killed, while 006 was Sean Bean’s villain in “GoldenEye.” 008 is Bond’s replacement in the event of his death, while neither 001 nor 005 have ever been mentioned.

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• Bond’s alcoholic drink of choice is a Vesper martini, named after the original Bond girl, Vesper Lynn. It is made with three measures Gordon’s gin, one measure vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet (an aperitif), shaken over ice with a thin slice of lemon peel. It is first described in the novel “Casino Royale.”

• Cocktails that have juice, dairy, or egg whites are normally shaken. Shaking aerates the cocktails creating froth. You stir a cocktail when you don’t want to over-dilute it with melting ice, and when you don’t want to change its texture.

Cocktails using spirits such as martinis are normally stirred.

• It’s possible Bond wanted his martini shaken in order to improve the flavor of a cheap brand of vodka. It’s also been theorized that he wanted his martini extra cold, or that he needed his drinks diluted.

• Throughout the film franchise, Bond says, “Shaken, not stirred” twelve times.

• In the book “You Only Live Twice” Ian Fleming wrote up a fictional obituary, in which we learn a little of James Bond’s background. His parents were Andrew Bond, a Scot; and Monique Delacroix, from Switzerland. James was born in Germany. Both his parents were killed in a mountain climbing accident when James was 11, and he was raised by an aunt in England.

• Ian Fleming was a chain smoker, averaging 4 packs a day, which ultimately killed him. James Bond was a smoker too, at first. The last film where Bond was shown smoking (a cigar) was “Die Another Day” in 2002.

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• In “Thunderball,” The Bell Rocket Belt used in the film’s opening sequence was an actual working jetpack. Filmmakers hired two qualified pilots to operate it. One of the pilots was asked if he would fly without a helmet so Bond could look cooler. He refused for safety reasons, which is why Sean Connery wore a helmet for this scene in the final film.

• In “Thunderball,” the gadget-master named Q gives Bond a tiny breathing apparatus that allows him to survive underwater for several minutes. Bond uses it when trapped in a pool with a bunch of sharks. A member of the Royal Engineers saw the film and thought such a device would have all sorts of military applications. He called chief draftsman Peter Lamont to ask how long the apparatus actually worked. “As long as you can hold your breath,” Lamont replied. The engineer countered that Bond was underwater for several minutes in the movie. Lamont had to explain the magic of video editing, and that no such gadget really existed.

• The title of the 2015 film, “Spectre” is an anagram for ‘Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion.’

• Christopher Lee is Ian Fleming’s cousin, and Fleming initially wanted Lee to play Dr. No in the first film. Christopher Lee turned the offer down. However, he later played villain Scaramanga in the 1974 movie “The Man With The Golden Gun.” • Inspiration for Fleming’s 12th novel “You Only Live Twice” came from the 17th century Japanese poet Maysuo Basho, who wrote, “You only live twice; once when you’re born, and once when you look death in the face.” It’s estimated that between a third and a quarter of the world’s population has seen a Bond film.

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FUTURE GENERATIONS ARE COUNTING ON YOU.

The designation "senior" covers a long stretch of ages, some of us much older or younger than others. It's the older ones who perhaps have the biggest lesson to learn ... that time does not stretch forward indefinitely.

I learned that lesson today when I received word that one of my oldest relatives had passed away. His name was Henry, and I never met him. I hooked up with him and his lovely wife many years ago when I started my genealogy hunt. We came together like family, which we were. Christmas cards, newsy letters, new genealogy tidbits, just as though we'd always known each other.

I would visit someday, I always told myself, not only Henry and his wife, but all my other newly found relatives in their area. Time and physical distance can't change DNA, and I suspect that should I walk through their small town, I would be easily identified as one of them. All the questions I had, I told myself, could wait until I visited.

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We owe it to the family generations that come after us to leave them as much information as possible.

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• “Skyfall” was the first Bond film to be released in IMAX. • It has more product placements than any other James Bond film.

• "Skyfall" was the most financially successful of any James Bond movie in history. It had the biggest open- • Skyfall Lodge in Scotland is not a real building, just an exterior set made of plywood and plaster. It wasn’t ing weekend of any previous James Bond film, and even located in Scotland, but was filmed in Surrey, pulled in over $1 billion worldwide over the course England. of its run.

• The opening scene, involving a motorcycle chase • Naomie Harris in her role as Miss Moneypenny gave James Bond a very sensual shave using a straight razor. across rooftops, took place in Turkey. It took 4 She spent six weeks with a professional barber trainmonths of planning, 200 crew members, 3 months of ing for the shaving scene, practicing her technique on rehearsal, and 2 months of filming just to complete members of the crew along the way. Sales of straight the first 12 minutes of the movie. razors increased by over 400% after the movie opened.

• The scene required the use of 20 cameramen on mo-

torcycles, chasing the action while James Bond is • One scene was almost ruined by a pair of gloves Daniel Craig purchased, thinking they looked very Bond-like. being pursued by henchman Patrice, while both are With the director’s approval, he wore them for an exriding Honda CRF250R motorbikes. tremely expensive and difficult action scene where he • The wardrobe department used 85 identical suits to falls into a pit filled with Komodo dragons. The villain outfit Daniel Craig, his double, and stunt double in gets Bond’s gun, but it doesn’t fire because it’s equipped the opening scene. No matter what happens to Bond with fingerprint-sensing technology that makes it imduring this big chase scene, his suit is always impecpossible for anyone other than Bond to shoot. cably unwrinkled and utterly without dust or scuffs.

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They gave him a weighted tie so it wouldn’t flap in • After the scene was shot, an editorial assistant piped up and said, “Wait a minute. The logic here is that the the breeze as he zoomed away on his motorcycle. villain can’t fire Bond’s gun because it has a fingerprint • The cast went through 200,000 rounds of ammo just scanner, but if that’s the case, then how was Bond ever while practicing for the opening scene. going to fire it wearing gloves?”

• "Skyfall" was the first James Bond film where the “F word” can be heard, spoken by Judi Dench in her role • They determined that re-shooting the scene without gloves would cost millions of dollars that simply as the character M. wasn’t in the budget. They wound up digitally coloring • This was the first movie where James Bond wore a the gloves the same color as Craig’s skin pigment, but gray suit. Previously, he only wore black. his hands still look pudgy in the final cut.

• The film contains 500 CGI shots. They needed to em- • The film won 5 Oscars in 2013, more than any other ploy over 1,000 people across the world to work on James Bond film in history. the computer-generated scenes.

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• On Sept. 14, 1814, Francis Scott Key pens a poem that is later set to music and in 1931 becomes America's national anthem, "The StarSpangled Banner." The poem was written after Key witnessed Fort McHenry being bombarded by the British during the War of 1812.

• On Sept. 15, 1954, the famous picture of Marilyn Monroe, laughing as her skirt is blown up by the blast from a subway vent, is shot. The scene infuriated her husband, Joe DiMaggio.

• On Sept. 19, 1969, President Richard Nixon announces the cancellation of the draft calls for November and December. He reduced the call-up by 50,000 men as part of his program of turning the war over to the South Vietnamese.

• On Sept. 20, 1973, in a highly publicized "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match, top women's player Billie Jean King, 29, beats Bobby Riggs, 55, a former No. 1 ranked men's player. Riggs had boasted that women were inferior, and that even at his age he could beat any female player. King beat Riggs 6-4, 6-3, 6-3.

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• Age of James Bond when he became agent 007: 38 • Number of times Bond has been shot at in the films: 4,662 • Number of times he’s suffered a gunshot wound: 2 • Number of other attempts on his life: 130 • Number of people James Bond kills: 352 • Number of people killed by Pierce Bronsan (more than any other James Bond): 135 • Number of women James Bond has trysts with: 58 • Number of women he had trysts with who later try to kill him: 35 • Age of Roger Moore, the oldest Bond: 58 • Age of George Lazenby, the youngest: 30 • Number of years Daniel Craig played Bond, longer than any other: 14 • Number of films in which Desmond Llewelyn played gadget-master Q: 17 • Height of Richard Kiel who played the henchman Jaws: 7’2” • Number of cannon-assisted barrel rolls done by the Aston Martin in the 2006 remake of “Casino Royale”: 7, a world record • Number of interviews Roger Moore did to promote “Moonraker” in 1979: 390 • Number of BMWs destroyed while making “Tomorrow Never Dies”: 15 • Number of Aston Martin coupés destroyed in “Skyfall”: 7 • Value of those Aston Martins: $37 million • Age of Honor Blackman, the oldest Bond girl, in “Goldfinger”: 37 • Number of boats used in the opening scene of “The World is Not Enough: 35 ...continued

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THE DEATH OF JOHN JORDAN

• In the 1967 film “You Only Live Twice” James Bond pilots an auto-gyro around a mountain to find the hidden lair of the villain. The auto-gyro, similar to a miniature one-person helicopter, was code named Little Nellie. It was a fully functional flying vehicle, manufactured

by Wallis Autogyros, piloted by its inventor, Ken Wallis, who was dressed as a body double for Sean Connery.

• Two enemy helicopters fly out to confront Little Nellie. Cameraman John Jordan was hooked up to a harness underneath one of the helicopters in order to film the scene.

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• An updraft caught one of the choppers just as it passed underneath the chopper where John Jordan dangled. A blade sliced his foot open. The pilot was able to keep control of the damaged aircraft, landing at a nearby hotel.

• As it happened, there was a conference of neurosurgeons meeting at that hotel, and the doctors were able to save Jordan’s foot. However, when Jordan eventually returned home to England, he elected to have the foot amputated because it never felt quite right. He had a prosthetic foot instead.

• Shortly he was back at work again, spending the next three years filming for “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service,” “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” and “The Battle of Britain.”

• In 1969, Jordan was filming aerial shots for “Catch-22” in an adapted B-25 airplane with an open tail high above the Gulf of Mexico. He elected not to wear a safety harness or parachute as he filmed from the back of the open plane.

While turning to signal another aircraft, he lost his footing, possibly because of his prosthetic foot. He fell from the aircraft, plunging 2,000 feet into the sea. He died at the age of 44.

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