The Not-So-Jolly Roger #2 (Time Warp Trio)

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In Scotland, a stolen car is recovered bearing the fingerprints of long dead masterspy. Is he still alive and working? Travelling to Nice, Drake sits next to a man he recognises as an assassin. Drake takes his place, but who is the victim? In September 1914, the British submarine HMS E9 successfully torpedoed the German cruiser SMS Hela. [47] Remembering Wilson's statements, commanding officer Max Horton instructed his submariners to manufacture a Jolly Roger, which was flown from the submarine as she entered port. [46] [47] Each successful patrol saw Horton's submarine fly an additional Jolly Roger until there was no more room for flags, at which point Horton had a large Jolly Roger manufactured, onto which symbols indicating E9 's achievements were sewn. [47] A small number of other submarines adopted the practice: [47] HMS E12 flew a red flag with the skull and crossbones on return from a foray into the Dardanelles in June 1915, [48] and the first known photograph of the practice was taken in July 1916 aboard HMS H5. [49]

With typical James Bond settings, Drake flew around the world taking on the baddies, using gadgets similar to Bond himself. When Viktor Korchnoi opposed Anatoly Karpov for the World Chess Championship 1978, he was a defector from the Soviet Union and momentarily stateless; so he played with a miniature Jolly Roger at the chess table.

International extortionist Gregori Benares marries a lovely young Englishwoman and takes her to Rome; they stay in a villa where the butler is John Drake. An ally of the shy wife and implacable enemy of the sadistic Benares, Drake exposes the man's kidnapping plot. For a start the human chameleon John Drake becomes the cool DJ Johnny Drake, or JD. How cool is that? At a forthcoming Caribbean election in a British colony, M9 learn one of the parties plan to kill their own candidate to discredit the British. Drake has to protect the potential victim. In a revolutionary Latin American state, Drake's friend Peter is framed for the murder of a general's mistress. Extracting the wounded Peter is a job for Drake, undercover as a journalist; and he finds an unlikely ally. When the general himself joins the chase, the escape becomes a matter of hairbreadth timing. The re-issued version of the Megadeth album, Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! (1985), shows a stylized Vic Rattlehead skull on top of crossed swords and crossed bones. This was based on Mustaine's original drawing for the cover which the band did not have enough money to produce at the time.

An M9 agent is murdered in Tokyo while transmitting a message about the impending assassination of a United Nations mediator. Drake is assigned to protect the official. The early development team of the Apple Macintosh used a pirate flag to portray a "rebellious" spirit. [72] Anarchist and Pirate protest with the Jolly Roger flag in Hungary. Drake is sent to Jamaica to identify an M9 double agent operating from a luxury hotel but who spends his time drinking and lying on the beach much to his superiors' annoyance.

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What makes a man a traitor? Drake finds out when his latest assignment takes him to Kashmir, in Northern India, and to drama high up a mountain in a lonely bungalow with a renegade Englishman and his beautiful wife. A diplomatic satchel is stolen by bandits when a plane crashes off the coast of Sicily. Drake must deal with the bandits to retrieve the satchel. Another early reference to "Old Roger" is found in a news report in the Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer (London, Saturday, October 19, 1723; Issue LVII, p.2, col. 1): The episode was partly filmed on Red Sands Fort, a discussed World War II Anti-Aircraft Fort which at the time was the home of real pirate radio station ‘Radio 390’ which began broadcasting in September 1965 but was forced to close a year later due to new government broadcasting laws. Drake soon discovers that the Blue Danube Waltz is played on air when secrets are being transmitted and gets into trouble when he alters the schedules without permission. But who’s really in charge and who is receiving the coded information?

The state [started to] have the monopoly on violence, on force, taking it out of the hands of private actors," Head says. VOC-Glossarium" (PDF) (in Dutch). Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis. 2000 . Retrieved 29 July 2021.Use of Jolly Roger by submarine service". Flags of the World. 20 January 2012. Archived from the original on 21 December 2013 . Retrieved 22 December 2013. Drake takes the place of an ex-convict recruited as an assassin by an organisation which believes its mission is to eliminate undesirable world leaders (identified in the episode as the Knights Templar). When sent on his first assignment, Drake allows his victim to escape, revealing his identity.