Archive for November 12th, 2022

MAN WHO INSPIRED MOVIE HAS DIED AT 77

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Mehran Karimi Nasseri  (1945 – 12 November 2022)

(USA TODAY) – The Iranian man who inspired the Steven Spielberg
film
"The Terminal” died in Paris’ Charles-de-Gaulle airport after
living there for almost two decades, French officials said today.

Mehran Karimi Nasseri, a political refugee, died after a heart attack
in the airport’s Terminal 2F, Paris airport authority officials reported.

Police and a medical team treated Nasseri but were not able to
save him, an airport spokesperson
told Agence France-Presse
news agency.

Nasseri, who the Guardian reported called himself "Sir Alfred,"
got caught in an immigration trap in the late 80s – unable to
enter France. Born in 1945, Nasseri, lived in the airport’s
Terminal 1 from 1988 until 2006, first in legal limbo because he
lacked residency papers then later by choice, USA TODAY
archives show.       

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Tom Hanks in the Steven Spielberg film, The Terminal ( 2004)


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DESTRUCTION OF ATLANTA BEGAN IN 1864

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On November 12, 1864, Union General William T. Sherman
ordered the business district of Atlanta,
Georgia, destroyed
before he
embarked on his famous
March to the Sea.

When Sherman captured Atlanta in early September 1864,
he knew that he could not remain there for long.

His tenuous supply line ran from Nashville, Tennessee,
through Chattanooga, Tennessee, then one hundred miles
through
mountainous northern Georgia.


The army he had just defeated, the Army of Tennessee, was
still in the area and its leader, John Bell Hood, swung around
Atlanta to try to damage Sherman’s lifeline. Of even greater
concern was the Confederate cavalry of General
Nathan
Bedford Forrest
, a brilliant commander who could strike
quickly against the railroads and river transports on which
Sherman relied.


Atlanta’s Union Station Destroyed by The Union Army.


A Bank Lay in Ruins After The Battle and Occupation of
Atlanta.


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