Boche said the expected flow would be mainly from France to Spain but the interconnector would be reversible in case of need.
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Terega infrastructure director Michel Boche said the STEP pipeline would cost 442 million euros of which 290 million for Terega and 152 million for Enagas.
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"STEP is a reasonable project that responds to the desire of the heads of state of France, Spain and Portugal to strengthen our gas interconnections and boost security of supply in Europe," Terega's Boche said.
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Volkswagen also plans to return to the US dollar market this year, and to the hybrid sector in the second half of the year, Joerg Boche, VW's head of treasury, said on an investor call last month.
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Robert M. Boche (February 21, 1921 - November 25, 2004) was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
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Aurélien Boche (born 16 September 1981) is a retired French football defender who currently plays for Nîmes Olympique.
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Boche was elected to the Assembly in 1966 and was re-elected in 1968. He is a Republican.
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Boche was born on February 21, 1921 in Rosemount, Minnesota. He graduated from Rosemount High School before attending Globe University/Minnesota School of Business. Boche moved to New Richmond, Wisconsin and became active in his local church, as well as the United Packinghouse Workers of America and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
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I took the liberty of transposing three pronouns from the first person to the second, so as to apostrophise our Boche brethren.
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Boche and mesu boche sing in a regular voice, whereas contra and bassu sings with the use of the false vocal folds, just like the Tuvan Khoomei and Kargyraa techniques. In 2005, Unesco classed the cantu a tenore as an intangible world heritage.Bandinu 2006. The most well known groups who perform the singing a Tenore are from Bitti, Orosei, Oniferi, and Neoneli.
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He landed in France on June 26, 1918 and was stationed for six weeks at Bourbonne for training. He then was sent to the Boche to the Vosges sector.
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Pruneface's surname is Boche, a typically Dickensian-style naming of a character by Gould, since "Boche" is a French derogatory term for "German". He is a brilliant industrial engineer with a horribly deformed face. He sells out to the Nazis and is involved in espionage against the United States, as well as the development of nerve gas. Pruneface first appeared (and apparently died) in 1942, having nearly frozen to death due to exposure during a shootout with the police.
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After the downfall of Napoleon III in 1870, the name was changed from Avenue de l'Impératrice to Avenue du Général-Uhrich, and then in 1875 to Avenue du Bois de Boulogne. It was changed again in 1929 to Avenue Foch, after the hero of the First World War, who died in that year. During the Second World War, the street was nicknamed « avenue Boche » by the Parisians ("Boche" being a slang word for "German").Larry Collins, Fortitude, Robert Laffont, Paris, 1985, p. 84.
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Boche Buster at Bishopsbourne on the Elham Valley Railway, 21 March 1941. During the war, Etchinghill was home to the Boche Buster, a large rail-mounted gun which could be retracted into one of the many tunnels to provide cover from aerial photography and German bombing raids,Details and photographs of the gun at subterraneanhistory.co.uk. and which gained a certain notoriety owing to its large size (there were other large rail-mounted guns in service, but none of 18 inch bore). The Elham Valley Railway was requisitioned during the war as a military railway.
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"Boche Buster's" crew posing with the gun Five guns and two complete equipments on railway wagons were produced. After World War I there was no use for such large but relatively short-ranged weapons and they were placed in storage. In World War II the two wagons were used to mount 13.5-inch guns, which were capable of engaging targets on the German-occupied Channel coast of France. In late 1940 one 18-inch howitzer was mounted on the railway mounting nicknamed "Boche Buster" which had been used in World War I to carry a 14-inch gun.
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Thermal bicyclo[6.1.0]nonatrienyl chloride-dihydroindenyl chloride rearrangement Paul v. R. Schleyer, James C. Barborak, Tah Mun Su, Gernot Boche, and G. Schneider J. Am. Chem. Soc.; 1971; 93(1) pp 279 - 281; Topology in Chemistry: Designing Möbius Molecules Herges, R. Chem. Rev.
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On the island of Sardinia (Italy), especially in the subregion of Barbagia, one of the two different styles of polyphonic singing is marked by the use of throat singing. This kind of choir is called "singing a tenore". The other style, known as cuncordu, does not use throat singing. Cantu a Tenore is practiced by groups of four male singers, each of whom has a distinct role; the 'oche or boche (pronounced or , "voice") is the solo voice, while the mesu 'oche or mesu boche ("half voice"), contra ("against"), and bassu ("bass") – listed in descending pitch order – form a chorus (another meaning of tenore).
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Bruno "Benno" Boche (May 28, 1897 in Berlin – April 1, 1972) was a German field hockey player who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the German field hockey team, which won the bronze medal. He played three matches as forward and scored one goal.
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During the preparation period the S/Ls were exposed each night 'to fox the Boche' with 'stooge' beams in different directions. The attack went in at 04.00 on 18 November and the troop provided artificial moonlight until 07.00 to help the Flail tanks and engineers to breach the defences.
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"Delaforce, p. 35 After landing in Normandy he wrote, on 12 June, "The last two or three days have been v. sticky as the Boche has had time to deploy his initial Panzer Divisions. Bobby [Erskine, GOC 7th Armoured Division] and his chaps are getting going again and made splendid progress.
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With a range of around 12 miles, the gun was designed to attack invading German forces whilst still in mid-channel. Some sources still claim that the Boche Buster had a range of over 30 milesReport and railway gun photograph at etchinghill.info website. and could fire across the channel into German-occupied France.
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Scene Shifter at Camiers, France, 1918 The guns arrived with their carriages in France on 26 May 1918, but incomplete, and were not in action until 8 August. The two guns were operated by 471 Siege Battery from May 1918, and were known as "HM Gun Boche Buster", operating near Arras with First Army, and "HM Gun Scene Shifter", operating near Bethune with Fifth Army. They were used for long-range interdiction fire on key German targets such as railway junctions. King George V personally oversaw the firing of the first shell by Boche Buster from near Marœuil, 6 km NW of Arras, on 8 August in a fireplan to hit German reinforcements being sent south to oppose the British Amiens offensive.
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The Boche Buster firing near Bishopsbourne on 7 May 1941. Passenger services between and were withdrawn on 1 December 1940 and the line was placed under military control. The military established block posts at and Bishopbourne, under the control of the Royal Corps of Signals. The station remained open to freight during the war.
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The wooded landscape also gave cover. The heaviest gun was an 18-inch railway howitzer nicknamed the "Boche Buster". It was stationed at Bourne Park and could be stood down in the tunnel, avoiding enemy attack. The gun could fire a 1.75-ton shell up to and was capable of reaching Pegwell Bay near Ramsgate.
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Recoil was absorbed by special brakes acting on the wheels. "Boche Buster", an 18-inch howitzer on a former World War I 14 inch railway gun carriage, was deployed in November 1943. Maintenance and barrel changing was carried out at the disused Stone Hall Colliery sidings Lydden. The southernmost line had a curved firing spur close to Fan Bay.
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Jean Sugg was born 8 September 1897 in Ghent and was of Swiss German origin. He co- operated with Franz Rochat in the underground press, translated German and Swiss texts, and contributed to clandestine publications, including, La Libre Belgique, La Légion Noire, Le Petit Belge, and L'Anti Boche. He died in a concentration camp on 8 February 1945.
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Rigolboche Amelia Marguerite Badel (stage name, Rigolboche; nicknamed "the Huguenot"; Nancy, 13 June 1842 - Bobigny, 1 February 1920) was a French dancer. Credited for inventing the can-can, her acme occurred from 1858 to 1861. Her stage name, Rigolboche, is a slang term formed from the word "funny" and the suffix boche designating a "joker" or a very funny person.
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Nasser (), older name is Bush (, ) is a city and corresponding markaz in Beni Suef Governorate, Egypt. It is named after former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. The 1885 Census of Egypt recorded Bush (as Boche) as a nahiyah under the district of Beni Suef in Beni Suef Governorate; at that time, the population of the city was 7,091 (3,554 men and 3,537 women).
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Already at the beginning of WWI, in August 1914, the region of Longwy Bas was partly destroyed by German bombardment. The industrial structures were set out of function and further production was almost impossible. During the war, German heavy industrialist like Hermann Röchling dismantled still operable machines and installations. In late 1918, the French responded on this with postcards of the ruins and the comment “Le Départ des Boche”.
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A passing loop was installed in Bourne Tunnel, mile (1.21 km) south of Bishopsbourne on which was kept an 18-in rail-mounted gun, nicknamed the "Boche Buster" It had a range of . A curved siding was constructed at Charlton Park, south of Bishopsbourne from which the gun was fired. Military control was relinquished on 19 February 1945. The War Department ground frames and points were decommissioned on 2 May 1946.
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The whole thing is to keep this battle fluid and not allow it to crystallise. My guns were in action this pm firing their first shots in anger. The Boche are fighting well but with little support from guns and their air is simply non existent. The country here is frightfully enclosed − typically English country with thick hedges and ditches and their infantry are taking every advantage of it.
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Following this assignment, the 147th traveled with the 37th Division to Hooglede, near Ypres, and took part in the Ypres-Lys starting on 31 October. Continuous advance against heavy enemy fire characterized this assault. The men of the regiment swam across the Boche River on 2 November in the face of enemy fire, and prepared to cross the Scheldt. After fighting day and night, they crossed the Scheldt, and consolidated positions on the far bank.
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In this regard, some senior military officers were extremely active. Robertson, for example, wrote to Northcliffe in October 1916, "The Boche gives me no trouble compared with what I meet in London. So any help you can give me will be of Imperial value." Lastly, the actions of Northcliffe's newspapers must be considered—in particular The Times editorial on 4 December which led Asquith to reject Lloyd George's final War Council proposals.
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Vivienne Wilson had been weakened by the privations of World War II, and contracted tuberculosis during James Vaughn's absence to the United States, during which Mary Ann was cared for by a nanny, Fumi. Vivienne died on 5 August 1950, the very day of passage of private legislation permitting her to immigrate to the United States. She was buried in the Geijin Boche, the Foreign Cemetery overlooking the port in Yokohama, Japan.
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He was repatriated to Germany via Switzerland. His life in French internment was later recalled in a volume Auburtin produced in German and French entitled "Was ich in Frankreich erlebte"Was ich in Frankreich erlebte, Berlin, Mosse 1918 ("My experiences in France" / "Carnet d' un boche en France 1914–1917"). After 1917 he worked as a travel writer and freelance correspondence. Places on which he wrote included Madrid and, notably towards the end of his career, Rome.
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Osprey Publishing, London, 2005. Pages 41-42 These were codenamed the "Gladiator", the "Sceneshifter", and the "Peacemaker". 9.2-inch Mark 13 guns were located near Canterbury and Hythe, Kent; and 12-inch howitzers, Mk 3 and 5, located around Guston, north of Dover on the Southern Railway line to Deal and Ramsgate. The 18-inch howitzer "Boche Buster" was sited on the Elham Valley Railway, between Bridge, Kent, and Lyminge, and was intended for coastal defense against invasion.
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By 5 October, the Allies had broken through the entire depth of the Hindenburg defences over a front. General Rawlinson wrote, "Had the Boche [Germans] not shown marked signs of deterioration during the past month, I should never have contemplated attacking the Hindenburg line. Had it been defended by the Germans of two years ago, it would certainly have been impregnable…." On 8 October, the First and Third British Armies broke through the Hindenburg Line at the Second Battle of Cambrai.
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One of the stories featured in the anthology, Margo Lanagan's "A Fine Magic" won the 2006 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story and also finished 15th in the 2007 Locus Awards for best short story. Four other stories were also nominated at the Aurealis Awards. Simon Brown's "Leviathan" and "The Dying Light" by Deborah Biancotti were nominated for best young-adult short story, Chris Lawson's "Hieronymous Boche" for best horror short-story, and Lucy Sussex' "The Revenant" for best fantasy short story.
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They are lobbing grenades into the tank turrets and putting sticky bombs on, which Bobb[y] found most disconcerting.... Altogether things have gone really splendidly and everyone is in great heart." Two days later he wrote, "Had breakfast with Andrew Dunlop [CO 146th Brigade] and hatched future plots. The Boche have dug in in front of him and are going to be difficult to move. They lie doggo in the ditches and then appear in the rear shooting everyone up.
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However, a number of factors, including a personal interview with Gott on 5 August (during which Brooke realized that Gott had "...tried most of his ideas on the Boche...") led Brooke to conclude that "We want someone with new ideas and plenty of confidence in them..." and that Gott was tired and had temporarily lost his drive, having been in the desert since the start of the war.Alanbrooke, pp. 290 & 292. He also felt that Gott needed more experience before taking an army command.
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In a 1986 storyline, reporter Wendy Wichel approaches Dick Tracy with new information concerning Flattop and an incident in World War II which was kept secret and in which Tracy was involved. Before Flattop encountered Tracy in 1944, Flattop was hired by the Nazi spy Boche, a.k.a. Pruneface, to kidnap FBI Agent Jim Trailer, a close friend of Dick Tracy's, and a scientist Trailer and Tracy were protecting: Professor Roloc Bard. Flattop's instructions were to kill Trailer and hand the professor over to Pruneface.
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In the wings, the voice of my fine Messin Bello > imitated the voice of the Boche with a fierce hatred that made all hearts > tremble, but they were immediately relieved when little Pierre fired his > avenging rifle.Gheusi, p. 252 The opera received glowing reviews from the critics in Le Figaro, Les Annales du théâtre et de la musique, and La Nouvelle revue for the poignancy and originality of Fabre's libretto and Leroux's charming, simple and emotive music.Austruy, pp. 149–153; Le Figaro (26 December 1915), p.
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Shortly afterwards the brash and egocentric Squadron Commander Lord Flashheart (Rik Mayall) crash lands by the dug-out and punches Blackadder, believing him to be a 'boche'. Baldrick and George are enraptured by Flashheart, though Blackadder is completely unimpressed, viewing Flashheart as a "prat". As Flashheart leaves with Bob, Flashheart offers George a place in the Flying Corps. Initially uninterested, Blackadder is more agreeable when he learns of the "20 Minuters" squadron, so named because new pilots only spend 20 minutes in the air.
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Groot 1988, p. 381. Haig threatened to appeal to the British Government if he felt Foch was demanding too many British troops, so it was agreed that Haig and Foch should meet more frequently, and in time they developed a good working relationship (although wags at GHQ said he had to fight "Boche, Foch and Loygeorges"). Cooperation improved when the Germans launched their "Gneisenau" Offensive on 9 June, to widen the "Bluecher" salient westwards. Lloyd George and Milner gave their full support to Foch on moving four British divisions.
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The guns were built by Armstrongs (Elswick Ordnance Company) and were originally intended to be mounted as a pair in a twin turret on the Japanese battleship Yamashiro but the order was not completed. Hence the breech of the left gun, which became known as "Scene Shifter", opened to the left which was unusual for a British army gun, while that of the right gun, "Boche Buster", opened to the right.Hogg & Thurston 1972, Page 196. Work on mounting them on railway carriages began in 1916 but was not completed until 1918.
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The academic Hans Bertens blamed this on McNeile's lack of experience and self-confidence, noting that in his later novels, McNeile "mastered the tricks of his trade". DelFattore outlines the use of double adjectives to reinforce feelings towards enemies in both his war stories and thrillers, such as "filthy, murdering Boche", and "stinking, cowardly Bolshevik". She and the scholar Lise Jaillant also comment on the dehumanisation of the enemy, comparing them to animals and vermin. Watson noted the frequency of the use of the word "devil"—and variations—when discussing antagonists.
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A few weeks later on 29 June 1907, Gimpel published the first color news photographs when L'Illustration published his picture of Frederick VIII of Denmark and his wife Louise of Sweden, who were visiting France at the time. Gimpel produced many works using the autochrome, arguably the most famous are the images known as The Grenata Street Army produced during the First World War. Gimpel befriended a group of children from the Grenata Street neighbourhood of Paris who had established their own 'army'. Under his guidance he helped them build their tanks and aircraft, documenting their 'battles' against the boche.
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Kiggell wrote to Gough (7 August) urging him "to jump well within our power" and to persuade the government, who had agreed to the offensive with deep reluctance on condition it would be conducted as a series of step-by-step advances, of "our power to win decisively" by "let(ting) them see that at each bound we gain the line aimed at and maintain it against counterattack, and with moderate losses". "Boche beating, not gain of territory. Beat him first, then en avant". Tanks were to be used to crush enemy strongpoints after the main attack had passed by.Travers 1987, pp.
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Canadians "100 yards from Boche lines" during the push on Hill 70. The 10th Battalion was originally formed from Albertans, Saskatchewanians and Manitobans, though as the war progressed it became identified solely as an Alberta battalion. The "Fighting Tenth" served with the 1st Canadian Division and participated in all major Canadian battles of the war, and set the record for highest number of individual bravery awards for a single battle. At Hill 70, sixty men were awarded the Military Medal for the fighting there, in addition to a Victoria Cross, three Distinguished Service Orders, seven Military Crosses, and nine Distinguished Conduct Medals.
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In 1904 he was appointed lecturer for English at the University of Bonn, where he wrote and published his thesis A history of ablaut in the strong verbs from Caxton to the end of the Elizabethan period (1910). In 1911, while living in Germany, Price married and became naturalized as a German citizen. Subsequently, he was drafted into the German army during World War I. He was captured by Russian soldiers, but escaped to China. In 1919 he wrote a book about his experiences called Boche and Bolshevik: Experiences of an Englishman in the German Army and in Russian Prisons.
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Decher studied chemistry at Philipps Universität, in his hometown of Marburg, Germany. Prior to completing his Diploma thesis with Gernot Boche on the NMR spectroscopy of carbanions, he spent a year working with William Russey at Juniata College in Pennsylvania. In 1986 he obtained his PhD in organic chemistry from Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany, working in the laboratory of Helmut Ringsdorf on drug-carrying polymers and lyotropic liquid crystals. He then took up a position as a postdoctoral fellow at Ciba-Geigy AG in Fribourg, Switzerland, where he worked with Bernd Tieke on non-centrosymmetric Langmuir- Blodgett films.
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The Boche Buster firing near Bishopsbourne on 7 May 1941 The Railways Act 1921 mandated that most railway companies in Great Britain would be "grouped" into one of four new companies. Consequently, the SE&CR; became part of the Southern Railway (SR) at the beginning of 1923. By this time, revenue on the line had dropped because of competition from road transport. The line had only ever conveyed local, rural traffic, and in 1931 arrangements were made to single the line between Harbledown Junction and Lyminge as an economy measure. This was commissioned on 25 October 1931.
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Kinito Méndez, born José del Carmen Ramírez Méndez on November 18, 1963, is a Merengue Music singer. Mendez started his career in Merengue Music in 1988 as one of the Co-founders of the popular Merengue band "La Cocoband", along with Alfonzo "Pochy" Vásquez and Bobby Rafael. Mendez wrote and arranged many of La Cocoband's hit songs including "La Manito" "El Boche" "La Seca" "El Cacu" and "Mujer Malvada". With the success of La Cocoband Mendez decided to leave and start his own project in early 1992 along with Bobby Rafael which was "Rokabanda", who won Orquesta Revelación del Ańo in Los Premios Cassandra in 1993.
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After a few nights providing movement light over canal and river bridges, XXX Corps sent C Troop to assist 84th US Division in its attack on Geilenkirchen as part of Operation Clipper. During the preparation period the S/Ls were exposed each night 'to fox the Boche' with 'stooge' beams in different directions. The attack went in at 04.00 on 18 November and the troop provided artificial moonlight until 07.00 to help the Flail tanks and engineers to breach the defences. The following night the troop assisted 43rd (Wessex) Division in the continuing attacks on the Geilenkirchen salient, receiving a retaliatory air raid that caused no damage.
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Xylon was developed by Professor Roloc Bard, a mad scientist who was taken hostage by a fake swami named Yogee Yammi during an earlier storyline of the 1940s. The ring consisted of Pruneface (hidden from the readers, going by Boche until halfway through the storyline) and his wife, Mrs. Pruneface, Shaky Trembly, Flattop Jones and his gang, and Frieda Smith (the professor's love interest and a secret Bundist). Pruneface kidnaps Bard and forces him to build several of the bombs, all of which but one is seized by Tracy and FBI agent Jim Trailer, hence the reason for the story being "suppressed" during the actual war.
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Harris 2008, p479 It was agreed that Haig and Foch should meet more frequently, and in time they developed a good working relationship (although wags at GHQ said he had to fight "Boche, Foch and Loygeorges"). Cooperation improved when the Germans launched their "Gneisenau" Offensive on 9 June, to widen the "Bluecher" salient westwards.Groot 1988, p.382. Milner and Lloyd George told Haig that he should consider himself subordinate to Foch for the time being and that they were no longer interested in sacking him (this may have been untrue – as late as July, just before the battle of Amiens Lloyd George may have been trying to replace Haig with Cavan Groot 1988, p.385.
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" He also noted "girlfriend" and "boyfriend" were "bandied around more times than necessary to establish who is with whom". However, he found it interesting to watch the characters grow up in another installment of the series and praised the cliffhanger ending. A reviewer from The Guardian was less troubled, calling this "the best in the series so far" and praising its "funny bits", but concurred with Ortiz on the perspective format, which they felt was lopsided in favor of Annabeth, Percy and Jason. In contrast, Benjamin Boche of KidsReads enjoyed having multiple narrators, writing, "Each one brings a breath of fresh air to whatever is happening and their unique perspectives keep things interesting.
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The debate had been made public by Mathieu Dreyfus, and Scheurer-Kestner was violently attacked, called "a German industrialist" and "Boche", etc. In December 1897, he shouted at the Senate on the refusal for a retrial, saying: "The truth always wins in the end." Scheurer-Kestner failed to convince his colleagues in the Senate to lead with him the battle for rehabilitation of captain Dreyfus on 13 January 1898: he received only 80 votes out of 229 voters when he ran for the vice-presidency. Scheurer-Kestner embodied hopes in the law and justice of the Government of the Republic and always recommended patience and prudence, including disapproving of the shaft of light from Émile Zola (J'accuse).
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The recoil on firing made the gun run back 20 feet, and even then tended to distort the track. A 200-yard spur railway line was laid into the fields, just north of Kingston village, in order to allow the gun to train on the beaches at Sandwich Bay and Pegwell Bay, as well as the Straits of Dover and the English Channel approaches. On 20 June 1941, the "Boche Buster" was inspected by Winston Churchill at Bishopsbourne station, and later that day the Prime Minister viewed the smaller guns at Elham. In 1944 the army decided that all the guns would be more useful in the Allies' drive towards Germany and they were taken to Salisbury Plain for testing prior to the invasion of Normandy.
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52, p.55, p.73 In the same letter he wrote that “[Field Service Regulations] will require a tremendous amount of revising when we have finished with the Boche” and urged him not to take the principles of FSR too literally, adding “I think you know what is in my mind”, a phrase which Tim Travers believes refers to Robertson's preference for more cautious tactics.Travers 1993, pp.172-3 Henry Wilson recorded rumours that Robertson was angling for Haig's job in July,Travers 1987 p. 19 although there is no clear evidence that this was so.Woodward, 1998, pp. 55–7 This was the month with the highest British casualties of the entire war, at a time when the German Verdun Offensive was already being scaled back.
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World War II saw the final use of the railway gun, with the massive Schwerer Gustav gun,Zaloga (2016), pp. 14-15, 18-19 the largest artillery piece to be used in combat, deployed by Nazi Germany. After the Fall of France Germany added 58 captured French guns to its inventory while Italy was given 19 French guns with many of these being captured by the Germans after the Italian capitulation. Boche Buster, seen from Bourne Park Tunnel on the Elham Valley line, at Bishopsbourne in Kent, England, on 21 March 1941 Both Nazi Germany and Great Britain deployed railway guns that were capable of firing across the English Channel in the areas around Dover and Calais.Arnold (1982), pp. 100, 108, 147, 148.
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"...his machine gun must have jammed, for I saw him pull his pistol and fire several shots, one or more being effective, as the German observer dropped limp in his seat, and I thought for a moment that he would come out victorious but a sudden burst from the boche's machine gun broke your son's arm, and losing control, his machine started into a fatal nosedive and as it did I saw your boy fire several more shots with his pistol at the then departing boche, and when we picked him up he still had the automatic clasped tightly in his right hand, brave boy that he was, fighting till the last...."The Indianapolis Star, November 27, 1918, as posted at theaerodrome.com. Retrieved on 26 June 2010. Karl John Schoen left behind a widow, Mrs. Maurine Schoen, and a 10-month-old daughter.
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Lucha Britannia combines the Lucha Libre style of wrestling that is characterized by the wearing of colourful masks, rapid sequences of holds and maneuvres, tag-teams and "high-flying" with the traditional British technical style, North American and Japanese Puroresu wrestling format. Aside from wrestling, Lucha Britannia events also include risqué cabaret performances, comedic interludes and side acts. All the characters and performers in Lucha Britannia loosely fit into a fantastical narrative called the "RetroFutureVerse" wherein a fractious band of outlawed prize-fighters (known as the "United Resistance Movement") battle for justice and dignity against the dastardly representatives of tyrannical rulers (known either as "The State" or "The Yankee Boche") in an ornately cruel, futuristic dystopia. The promotion runs regular monthly shows called The Lucha Underground from the Resistance Gallery – a venue in Bethnal Green in London's East End.
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29, I was in an advanced ammunition dump getting powder when three German planes came over, bent on destroying it.... "I...turned my attention to the other American machine, which...was piloted by your son. First he would be on top and then the boche—both planes maneuvering for the most advantageous position, but as the minutes sped by one could tell he was putting up a losing but game fight. They drove him down until barely 300 yards separated him from the ground. The odds were against him—four machine guns and two men against one machine gun and one man in a much smaller plane.... "He was so near the ground that he could have landed and have been alive today, but to quit... was not in him; instead of quitting he pulled hard on the steering lever and his little machine bounded straight up under his adversary.
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In the spring he wrote to an archaeological colleague, Léon Heuzey, telling him that "I continue with my work as an archaeologist. As at Tello I record earthworks, but instead of artefacts of Gudea I find German shells, it is not without excitement". The Vimy Ridge Moroccan Division Memorial bearing Cros' name Later that year Cros led his brigade, as part of the 1st Moroccan Infantry Division, at the Second Battle of Artois - an allied attempt to capture Vimy Ridge with an assault on a wide stretch of the front. Cros took particular care to inspire a keen esprit de corps in his men and on the eve of the attack told them: "I am your father and you know that I love you as my children, if you want to show me that you love me in return, fight and kill lots of Boche".
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Macready disliked Ireland and the Irish. He had already written to Ian Macpherson on the latter's appointment as Chief Secretary for Ireland in January 1919: "I cannot say I envy you for I loathe the country you are going to and its people with a depth deeper than the sea and more violent than that which I feel against the Boche".Jeffery 2006, p261 In April 1920, Macready was sent to command the troops in Ireland as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) British forces operating in the counter-insurgency role against the Irish Republican Army in the Irish War of Independence (alongside Hamar Greenwood as the new Chief Secretary). He later stated in his memoirs that only loyalty to his "old Chief" Lord French (still Lord Lieutenant of Ireland at the time, although largely stripped of executive power in the spring of 1920) made him accept.
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There are many theories on the origin of the term "Caldoche". The most widespread story, as told by the collective lexicon 1001 Caledonian Words, attributes the term to local journalist and polemicist Jacqueline Schmidt, who participated actively towards the end of the 1960s in the debate concerning the Billotte laws (in particular the first law, which transferred mining responsibilities in New Caledonia to the state), and signed her articles with the pseudonym "Caldoche", a portmanteau of the prefix "Cald-", referring to her strong feeling of belonging to New Caledonia, where her family settled almost 100 years earlier, and the suffix "-oche", referring to the pejorative term "dirty Boche", having been called that by some of her schoolfriends' parents due to her German heritage (the Schmidts form part of an important German community from the Rhineland, having fled Germany to escape Prussian domination in the 1860sP. O'REILLY, Calédoniens : Répertoire bio-bibliographique de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, éd. Société des Océanistes, n°3, Paris, 1953, p.235-236).
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The heaviest gun was stationed at Bourne Park, where there was a short tunnel; the gun could be stood down in the tunnel, avoiding enemy attack. The other two guns were deployed to Elham railway station. The guns remained in the area for the greater part of the hostilities. The howitzer gun at Bourne, the so-called "Boche Buster", had a barrel of 18 inches diameter and was, apart from a ponderous and unreliable Russian siege cannon, the largest railway gun in Europe. It had originally had a 14-inch barrel during World War I, and the last action in which it fired was in 1916 when three rounds completely destroyed the railway station at Arras in France. The gun was then stored at Nottingham until early in 1940, when the authorities realised the potential of the weapon for military defence. It was fitted with an 18-inch naval barrel at the Darlington railway works in the spring of 1940. The barrel was one of several that had been removed from British battleships following the Washington Naval Treaty in 1922, which banned very large naval guns.
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