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Biografia
Formou-se na Universidade de Oxford, e começou a sua carreira como jornalista trabalhando como repórter e subeditor do The Times. Publicou cerca de 60 romances.
Ao longo de sua vida, Greene esteve em vários países bem distantes da Inglaterra, aos quais ele se referia como lugares selvagens e remotos do mundo. Em 1935, visitou a África (especialmente Serra Leoa e Libéria), onde, além de buscar material para seus artigos do Times e para um futuro livro (Journey Without Maps), também prestou serviços à Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society
As viagens o levaram a ser recrutado pelo MI6, o serviço secreto britânico, por meio de sua irmã, Elisabeth, que trabalhava para a organização, e ele foi enviado para Serra Leoa durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Assim, de 1941 a 1943, ele trabalhou para a inteligência britânica, em Freetown. Muitos de seus romances, a partir de então, tiveram como tema ou pano de fundo a espionagem. Kim Philby (que posteriormente descobriu-se ser um agente duplo, ao serviço da KGB) era seu supervisor no MI6 e seu amigo. Posteriormente, Greene escreveria o prefácio do livro de memórias de Philby, My Silent War (1968).
Nos seus romances, o escritor retrata pessoas que encontrou e lugares onde viveu. Deixou a Europa pela primeira vez aos 30 anos de idade, em 1935, rumo à Libéria. Essa viagem seria a inspiração para o livro Journey Without Maps. A sua viagem ao México, em 1938, para observar os efeitos da campanha anticatólica do governo, que promovia a secularização forçada, foi paga pela editora Longman e assunto de dois livros.
O seu primeiro livro de sucesso foi O Expresso do Oriente (1932). Dentre outras obras, incluem-se O Poder e a Glória (1940), Our Man in Havana (1958, "O Nosso Agente em Havana") e O Fator Humano (1978). Muitas de suas obras foram transformadas em filmes, como por exemplo O Ídolo Caído. As suas obras falam muito de situações políticas de países pouco conhecidos e aos quais viajava frequentemente, como Cuba e Haiti.
Outra temática frequente em sua obra é a religião. Tendo-se convertido ao catolicismo, em 1926, os dilemas morais e espirituais de sua época eram representados por intermédio das suas personagens. Graham Greene era considerado o maior 'escritor católico' da Grã-Bretanha, apesar da sua resistência em ser retratado dessa maneira.
Existem peças teatrais de sua autoria, como The Complaisant Lover, 1959, The potting shed, 1956–1957, The linving room, 1958, e Carving a statue, 1964. Foi também autor de quatro livros infantis.
Agentes do FBI prenderam Kaczynski a 3 de abril de 1996, na sua cabana, onde foi encontrado num um estado desleixado. Uma busca na sua cabana revelou um esconderijo de componentes de bombas, 40 mil páginas escritas à mão que incluíam experiências de fabrico de bombas, descrições dos crimes do Unabomber e uma bomba preparada, pronta para ser enviada pelo correio. Eles também encontraram o que parecia ser o manuscrito datilografado original de Sociedade Industrial e Seu Futuro. Até este ponto, o Unabomber tinha sido o alvo da investigação mais cara na história do FBI.
O recurso a empresas offshore não é por si só ilegal nas jurisdições em que estão registadas. No entanto, durante a investigação os jornalistas verificaram que algumas das companhias de fachada mencionadas nos documentos podem ter sido usadas para fins ilegais, incluindo fraude, tráfico de droga e evasão fiscal.
Helin Bölek (5 June, 1991 – 3 April 2020) was a Kurdish member of the leftist Turkish folk music band Grup Yorum.
Life and struggle
Bölek, the daughter of a family from Diyarbakır, worked in art during her youth. She took part in Grup Yorum as a soloist. She was arrested for the first time during a police operation at the İdil Culture Center in Istanbul in November 2016, when she was detained with seven other members of the group on charges of "resisting the police, insulting and being a member of a terrorist organization". The musicians Bahar Kurt, Barış Yüksel and Ali Aracı announced that they started an "indefinite and irreversible" hunger strike on 17 May 2019, to end the pressures from the state, the concert bans, and the raids on cultural centers.
Bölek joined the hunger strike in June 2019. She was released in November 2019 but kept on fasting. On 11 March 2020, İbrahim Gökçek and Helin Bölek were taken out to the Umraniye State Hospital after a police raid that morning at their home in Küçükarmutlu, Istanbul. In a statement made by their lawyer Didem Ünsal, the two Grup Yorum members stated that they were taken to the hospital by ambulance and that they were admitted to the emergency room, where they declared that they did not accept intervention or treatment.
She died on 3 April 2020, the 288th day of a hunger strike at her home in Istanbul, which was held as a means to protest against the treatment of the band by the Turkish Government led by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. After her death, large crowds mourned Helin Bölek and they began to march towards a Cemevi. The police intervened the march and detained several participants, but the crowds managed to deliver her coffin to a Cemevi. The crowds intended to go to the cemetery but the police impeded it and detained several participants of the ceremony again. Afterwards, the police transported Helin Bölek to the cemetery.
Leon Russell (born Claude Russell Bridges; Lawton, Oklahoma, April 2, 1942 – Nashville, Tennessee, November 13, 2016) was an American musician and songwriter who was involved with numerous bestselling records during his 60-year career that spanned multiple genres, including rock and roll, country, gospel, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, southern rock, blues rock, folk, surf and the Tulsa Sound.
He collaborated with many notable artists and recorded at least 31 albums and 430 songs. He wrote "Delta Lady", recorded by Joe Cocker, and organized and performed with Cocker's Mad Dogs & Englishmen tour in 1970. His "A Song for You", which was named to the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2018, has been recorded by more than 200 artists, and his song "This Masquerade" by more than 75.
As a pianist, he played in his early years on albums by the Beach Boys, Dick Dale, and Jan and Dean. On his first album, Leon Russell, in 1970, the musicians included Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison. One of his early fans, Elton John, said that Russell was a "mentor" and an "inspiration". They recorded their album The Union in 2010, earning them a Grammy nomination.
Russell produced and played in recording sessions for Bob Dylan, Frank Sinatra, Ike & Tina Turner, the Rolling Stones, and many other artists. He wrote and recorded the hits "Tight Rope" and "Lady Blue". He performed at The Concert for Bangladesh in 1971, along with Harrison, Dylan, and Clapton; for this he earned a Grammy Award.
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Leon Russell Wilkeson (Newport, Rhode Island, April 2, 1952 – Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, July 27, 2001) was the bassist of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1972 until his death in 2001.
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Wilkeson died in his sleep on July 27, 2001, at age 49 at the Sawgrass Marriott Resort & Beach Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. He was pronounced dead by St Johns County Fire Rescue Paramedic, Charlie Galambos. Galambos reports that leaving the scene moments after pronouncing Wilkeson dead, news had already leaked to the media, as he listened to the report on local FM radio. Wilkeson was in town to address charges of driving under the influence, for which he had been cited earlier that year. A medical examiner reported that Wilkeson was suffering from chronic liver and lung disease and died of natural causes. Wilkeson's death put the group in a difficult position since an agreement with Ronnie Van Zant's widow, Judy Jenness, mandated that at least three of Skynyrd's longtime members would have to appear in order for the band to use the name Lynyrd Skynyrd. Jenness waived this proviso, and the group continued with replacement bassist Ean Evans.
Lynyrd Skynyrd dedicated the song "Mad Hatter" from their 2003 album Vicious Cycle to Wilkeson's memory.
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