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'homework' He lost about 35 pounds for the role of the emotionally and physically exhausted Tom Jericho. ~~~~ Mick Jagger... ... and his daughter have a (blink and you'll miss it) cameo in Enigma during the nightclub dancing scene. ~~~~ It's a small world... Dougray and Corin Redgrave (Admirmal Towbridge in Enigma and brother to Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave) also co-stars with Dougray in To Kill a King. Enigma is the third time Tom Hollander (Logie) and Jeremy Northam (Wigram) have worked together. Their other two films are Gosford Park and Possession. ~~~~ Tom Jericho, Alan Turing and
Apple Computers Turing, a mathematician and logician made major contributions to mathematics, cryptanalysis, logic, and computer science. When war was declared in 1939, the Cambridge graduate worked full-time at the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park. His personal life however, was very different from that of the fictional character, Tom Jericho. Turing was a homosexual in an era that was far less tolerant than today. He was arrested for violation of British homosexuality statutes in 1952 and was found guilty. He was given the alternatives of prison or oestrogen injections for a year. He accepted the injections so he could continue his career. However, after his arrest, his security clearance was withdrawn. In 1954 he committed suicide by eating a cyanide-laced apple. It's often been suggested that this is where Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak came up with the name for their computer - the Apple. Despite the fact that their very first advertising slogan was "Byte into an Apple", the computer and company name had a completely different source of inspiration. According to Apple-History.com, "Steve Jobs had worked during the summer at an apple farm, and admired the Beatles' record label, Apple. He also believed Apples to be the most perfect fruit. He and Steve Wozniak were trying to figure out a name for their new company, and they decided that if they couldn't think of one by the end of the day that was better than Apple, they would choose Apple. They couldn't think of anything better, so on April 1, 1976, Apple Computer, Inc. was born." ~~~~ Jericho or Turing....so who really
broke the Enigma code? The Enigma machine was first built and sold in the 1920s. German banks and railroads were among the first to use it until the German (Nazi) military saw its potential. In 1931 and continuing for several years, a German army clerk, financially in-debt, secretly obtained more than 300 documents, including the instructions and settings for the Enigma machines and sold them to the French who showed very little interest in their purchase. Next it was offered to the British who were skeptical that Enigma could be broken and politely declined the offer. Finally the documents went to the Poles. With the German threat on the horizon, the Polish government realized how important Enigma was. Three brilliant young Polish mathematicians, Zygalski, Rozycki and Rejewski set off to break the code. It was Rejewski who realized that the Nazis had been stupid enough to use ABCD as the order round the rotor. In 1939, the Germans added a fourth rotor and the Poles could no longer read the messages. That's when they invited the British and French in on the project. But soon thereafter, Poland was invaded. ~~~~ U-571 versus Enigma - who really
captured the Enigma machine? On 4 June 1944, a hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captured the German submarine U-505. This event marked the first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the nineteenth century. A boarding party from the USS Pillsbury gathered up charts, code books and papers, but no Enigma machine was found on board. The real U-571 was sunk in the North Atlantic by an Australian Sunderland aircraft from RAAF 461 Squadron on January 28, 1944. The aircraft pilot noted that most of the crew got into the water, but froze in the cold water. U-571 is listed as sinking with all hands at 52.41N; 14.27W. |
