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Singer Performed For Hitler While Concealing Secrets For British
telegraph - What differentiated mezzo soprano from the other performers at the Berlin Opera House was that she was a British spy who had secret documents concealed in her underwear.
The heroic activities of Booth who led a double life inside Germany by singing for the Nazi officers while smuggling information to British intelligence has emerged following the discovery of the only known photograph of her.
After being found out as a spy she endured torture by the Gestapo, but kept silent and ultimately was able to escape to freedom.
The Wigan-born singer married a German, Dr Egon Strohm, before the Second World War and went to live with him. She became a popular singer, but when hostilities began she remained loyal to Britain.
She was sent to sing at a special "holiday camp" where the Nazis held PoWs, whom they thought they might be able to persuade to change sides.
At Stalag IIID, she met John Brown, a spy who was collecting information on British traitors such as William Joyce - Lord Haw Haw - and John Amery.
The photograph of Booth was taken at the camp and it is being offered for sale with other pictures of inmates enjoying themselves. They are stamped "Freigegeben Stalag IIID".
Booth wrote on her own photograph: "With kindest remembrances, Good luck, Margery Booth."
Brown was so trusted by the Germans he was able to move freely about Berlin and liaise with Booth.
She was able to pass on the information to MI9, the intelligence branch that hunted traitors.
On one occasion after meeting with Brown, Booth performed at the Berlin Opera House in front of Hitler, with secrets hidden in her underwear.
After the war she handed over much information that was used at the Old Bailey treason trials. She was given back her British citizenship and died from cancer in 1952 aged 47.
The photographs have come from a collector and are expected to fetch several hundred pounds when they are offered for sale at auction in Ludlow, Shropshire, on Sept 30.
Richard Westwood-Brookes, from Mullock's auction house, said: "It is quite astonishing that the life and heroic activities of this opera singer are not widely known about.
"It was when she went to sing at the infamous Stalag IIID - called the Holiday Camp - that she met the spy John Brown.
"The camp was where the Germans sent PoWs who they thought might change sides and possibly join the Britischer Freikorps.
"John Brown had persuaded the Germans he was one such fellow, but he was actually gathering information about British traitors and passing it to MI9.
"When Booth performed at the camp he might have realised she would be a potential ally because she insisted on finishing her act with Land of Hope and Glory.
"And as Brown was able to move freely about Berlin because he was so trusted, he was able to meet up with Booth.
"On one occasion he passed her some documents just prior to a performance she gave to Hitler, and the papers were hidden in her underwear.”
He added: "Towards the end of the war, Brown's secret activities became known to the Nazis, and Booth was arrested and tortured by the Gestapo.
"She remained silent and without being able to prove anything the Gestapo finally let her go, and she managed to escape Berlin during an air raid.”
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Wisdom Teeth....Stem Cell Bonanza
JBC - Wisdom teeth, the vestigial molars that ancient humans used to grind plants but nowadays serve no purpose, might have their uses after all. The teeth possess a gold mine of cells that can be reprogrammed into pristine, treatment-ready stem cells.
Most people's wisdom teeth, or third molars, grow in sometime between the ages of 17 and 25. A lot of these teeth end up coming in sideways, making the teeth impacted and requiring the surgical removal of the teeth. But all those (myself included) who got their wisdom teeth removed just because they were really painful and turning septic might have missed out on their own personal stem cell reserve.
It all goes back to a 2006 study that discovered the stimulation of four particular genes in adult cells could cause the cells to revert back to a stem cell state that was more or less identical to actual embryonic stem cells. This discovery opened up the possibility that these rejuvenated stem cells could form the basis for innovative therapies and treatments, made all the more potent because people were using their own stem cells in the treatment.
The problem is that the only way to make these so-called iPS cells is to harvest cells from a person's body. The reprogramming process is extremely inefficient and requires tons of starter cells to build up a decent culture of new stem cells. This is only made worse by the fact that the most readily available cells, such as skin cells, are also the least efficient and require the largest number of starter cells to get any result, while the most efficient cells, such as those from bone marrows, are difficult and painful to obtain.
That's where wisdom teeth come into the picture. According to a team of researchers at Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, the soft pulp inside wisdom teeth contain mesenchymal stromal cells that are extremely similar to those in bone marrow. But unlike bone marrow, wisdom teeth are easy to obtain and not needed for any vital biological functions, making them ideal candidates to extract for the generation of iPS cells.
Led by Hajime Ohgushi, the team used three sets of wisdom teeth to successfully create these new stem cells. In another beneficial innovation, only three genes needed to be activated to trigger the process. The fourth, superfluous gene is the c-MYC gene, and that's a major bonus - the c-MYC gene is known to make the newly generated stem cells turn cancerous.
The cells generated from wisdom teeth were about 100 times more robust than those taken from skin cells. The researchers are still examining the full benefits of wisdom teeth based iPS cells, but they say there's no reason we can't start preparing now for their future medical use. After all, wisdom teeth removal is already a common procedure in many nations, and the teeth can simply be frozen and stored until they are needed someday down the line. Now I really wish I had asked to hang onto my wisdom teeth.
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Man Walks Into ER With Radioactive Rock
denverpost - The emergency room at Skyridge Medical Center was closed for more than an hour today after an emergency room patient arrived carrying a rock with low-level amounts of radioactivity, according to a hospital official.
The man arrived at the emergency room shortly after 10 a.m. for an undisclosed reason but while there he told emergency personnel he had a rock in his pocket with a low level of radiation, said Linda Watson, hospital spokeswoman.
She said the hospital's emergency preparedness response team went to the emergency room, tested the rock, found it was radioactive and called the South Metro Fire hazardous materials team.
During the incident, which lasted until about noon, the patient and a handful of emergency room personnel were isolated and the emergency room roped off, said Watson. During the time, Skyridge directed incoming emergency room patients to other hospitals.
The hazmat team determined the rock was not harmful and that neither the patient or hospital employees were affected. None had to be scrubbed down, said Watson.
Watson said the emergency room is now open and accepting patients. She said there is no danger to people arriving at the emergency room and that at no time were patients or staff in the hospital in danger.
Watson said that South Metro has taken the rock away for analysis.
Becky O'Guin, spokeswoman for South Metro Fire, said three hazardous material units were dispatched to the hospital at 10:15 a.m. After finding that the amount of radioactivity was "relatively low", the units were released, she said.
O'Guin said there was nothing unique about the rock - that it was a rock that would be found "naturally" in the out-of-doors.
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Romania Fortune Teller Tax Dropped...Politicians Fear Curse
sky - Politicians in Romania have dropped plans to tax fortune tellers and witches amid fears they will be cursed. Officials drafted a law demanding the tax as well as measures to ensure that psychics were held liable for faulty predictions. But the plans were rejected by Romania's senate.
Alin Popoviciu, of the ruling Democratic Liberal Party, who proposed the change, said politicians were frightened of being cursed. It was not immediately clear whether Mr Popoviciu would redraft the law, to take account of his colleagues' concerns.
Maria Campina, a well-known Romanian witch, said that it would be difficult to tax the thousands of fortune tellers and witches in the country. She said they made erratic sums of money, and receipts would be difficult to keep.
Romania is in a severe economic downturn and is trying to raise revenue from new taxes. The government hiked VAT from 19% to 24%, and slashed public sector wages by a quarter.
Fortean / Oddball News - 9/11/2010
