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Oct 11, 2008 · When The New York Times reported the warrantless eavesdropping in December 2005, Mr. Bamford recalled, “My phone started ringing at 4 in the morning” as reporters chasing the story looked for...
- E.C. Segar Took Inspiration from His Hometown
- Frank Fiegel Was No Sailor
- A Case of Mistaken Identity
- Frank Fiegel Understood His Caricature’S Popularity
Multiple characters in E.C. Segar’s Thimble Theatretook inspiration from his upbringing in Chester, Illinois. After taking a correspondence course in cartooning in Cleveland, Ohio, he created a set of unique and memorable characters, many of whom continue to be popular nearly 100 years later. In Chester, the local grocery store was owned by a tall,...
Frank “Rocky” Fiegel was born on January 27, 1868. Considering E.C. Segar made Popeye the Sailor Man a caricature of him, the pair’s features were very similar. Fiegel had the same prominent chin as Popeye, and always had a corncob pipe in his mouth. However, he was no sailor. Instead, he struggled to hold down a job and worked at a saloon as a bar...
A famous photofrom 1940 has circulated across the internet time and time again, and many have suggested the man pictured was Frank Fiegel. However, this has been disproven. While the man in the photo does look like the closest any single person could get to Popeye the Sailor Man, the date on which it was taken immediately clears things up. In Septe...
Frank Fiegel wasn’t aware of Popeye the Sailor Man until nine years before his death. It was 1938, the same year E.C. Segar died. However, Fiegel was able to see just how popular his caricature was, as it was featured in approximately 500 newspapers. More from us: Where Is Hacksaw Ridge, the Site Where Desmond Doss Saved the Lives of 75 US Soldiers...
Jan 8, 2015 · Twenty-six years after Bamford’s landmark first book about the NSA, The Puzzle Palace, the author’s “disturbing” new portrait of the agency makes a convincing case that America’s intelligence...
Jun 20, 2019 · What's True. Frank "Rocky" Fiegel was a real person who lived in the hometown of "Popeye" creator Elzie Segar. What's False. A photograph often shared as if it shows Fiegel actually depicts ...
Jun 14, 2013 · The author of “The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America,” Bamford has covered the National Security Agency for the last three decades, after helping...
Bamford’s book concludes around 2007, well before Edward Snowden described massive NSA surveillance programs in 2013. Yet, Bamford’s book really telegraphs Snowden’s revelations.
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Oct 14, 2008 · JAMES BAMFORD: Well, the very first clue to the 9/11 attack occurred in late December 1999, when the NSA picked up a message from a house in Yemen. The house was being used by bin Laden as...