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    Sir Basil Zaharoff, GCB, GBE (born Vasileios Zacharias; Greek: Βασίλειος Zαχαρίας Ζαχάρωφ; October 6, 1849 – November 27, 1936) was a Greek arms dealer...
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  • assistance, he approached Basil Zaharoff, an international financier and arms dealer who had long been a patron of the Côte d’Azur. Zaharoff managed to get hold...
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    Cricketer Basil Valdez (born 1951), Filipino singer Basil Wolverton (1909–1978), American cartoonist, illustrator, comic book writer-artist Basil Zaharoff (1849–1936)...
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  • in 1932 as the title of an article about an arms dealer named Basil Zaharoff: "Zaharoff, Merchant of Death". It was then borrowed for the title of the...
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  • that the character of Blofeld was based on real-life Greek arms dealer Basil Zaharoff. It is commonly believed that the name Blofeld was inspired by the English...
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    Benjamin De Casseres Arthur Schopenhauer Max Stirner Bernardino Nogara Basil Zaharoff Mark Twain John Milton Literature The Satanic Bible The Satanic Witch...
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    Russia, France, Germany, China and the United Kingdom consecutively. Basil Zaharoff's Vickers Company sold weapons to all the parties involved in the Chaco...
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    point. Deacon claims he was tasked with befriending and profiling Sir Basil Zaharoff, the international arms salesman and representative of Vickers-Armstrong...
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  • early career of notorious munitions kingpin and "merchant of death" Sir Basil Zaharoff, whose life, wealth, and villiany were also portrayed in the titular...
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    football pyramid. Şahidi İbrahim Dede – 15th–16th century Sufi poet Basil Zaharoff (Βασίλειος Ζαχάρωφ) - Muğla, 1849 - Monte Carlo, 1936, Greek arms dealer...
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    loosely inspired by a number of figures, including the arms dealer Basil Zaharoff, and German armaments family Krupp. Undershaft's unscrupulous sale of...
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  • Burke as Joseph Stalin Kenneth Cranham as Vladimir Lenin Leo McKern as Basil Zaharoff Jeananne Crowley as Margaret Callaghan Reilly (wife #1) Derek Newark...
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  • Benjamin De Casseres Arthur Schopenhauer Max Stirner Bernardino Nogara Basil Zaharoff Mark Twain John Milton Literature The Satanic Bible The Satanic Witch...
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  •  Iran 1936 2003 Ali Fayad  Lebanon Arcadi Gaydamak  Soviet Union 1952 Basil Zaharoff  Ottoman Empire 1849 1936 Carlos Cardoen  Chile 1942 Dale Stoffel  United...
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  • and philanthropist Simon Sinas, banker, diplomat and philanthropist Basil Zaharoff, arms trader and financier Evangelis and Konstantinos Zappas, entrepreneurs...
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    standard British machine gun for many years. With arms sales led by Basil Zaharoff, variants of the Maxim gun were bought and used extensively by both...
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    meetings at the Ritz during the latter half of the war, organised by Sir Basil Zaharoff, and it was at the Ritz that he made the decision to intervene on behalf...
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    Winnington-Ingram Sergei Witte Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1846–1877) Basil Zaharoff Todor Zhivkov Zog I of Albania August zu Eulenburg Emmanouil Zymvrakakis...
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    forces from April 1918 onwards. The chair was endowed by an arms trader, Basil Zaharoff, in Foch's honour; he also endowed a post in English Literature at the...
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  • elements for Arkadin's character come from a real-life arms dealer, Basil Zaharoff. In an interview for the BBC's Arena series first shown in 1982, Welles...
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    Lieutenant's Woman (1981) – Dr Grogan Reilly, Ace of Spies (1983) – Basil Zaharoff King Lear (1983) – Earl of Gloucester The Chain (1984) – Thomas Murder...
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  • Commissioner for Egypt. "For services in connection with the War". Basil Zaharoff 19 April 1918 (invested) Honorary Presented by Viscount Bertie of Thame...
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  • Nogara (misprinted as "Logara"), Karl Haushofer, Grigori Rasputin, Basil Zaharoff, Alessandro Cagliostro, Barnabas Saul (John Dee's first scryer), Ragnar...
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  • enemy Tintin. Hergé's Basil Bazarov was "characterised in every detail" by the real life Greek Vickers arms dealer Basil Zaharoff, who profited by selling...
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    (Greek: Ρωμαίοι/Ρωμηιοί, "Romans"). Aleksandro Karatodori (1833–1906). Basil Zaharoff (1850–1936), arms dealer and financier. Christakis Zografos (1820–1896)...
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  • Remagen (1969) - Feldmarschall Von Sturmer Sir Basil Zaharoff – Makler des Todes (1969, TV film) - Basil Zaharoff Patton (1970) - Colonel General Alfred Jodl...
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  • the daughter of arms dealer Basil Bazaroff – the satirical depiction of the old times real-life arms dealer Basil Zaharoff, who had appeared in The Broken...
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    province: Herodotus of Halicarnassos, historian Turgut Reis, seaman Basil Zaharoff, arms dealer born in Muğla Osman Hamdi Bey, painter, had his summer...
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  • international private arms dealer nicknamed the Merchant of Death Basil Zaharoff (1849–1936), Greek arms dealer nicknamed the Merchant of Death Alfred...
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  • about indulging of Bidar Sultan and Seniha Sultan in family politics to warn them. Basil Zaharoff Adnan Biricik 10–17 A gun trader. Works with Herzl....
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