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Two IRA members were also killed. In some cases the warning gave the wrong location, or did not give enough time to evacuate the area. Hoax calls, intended to cause disruption, were often made. The Bomb Squad was established at Scotland Yard in January to target the Angry Brigade, and following raids on the homes of suspects, they were arrested in August Excluding post- Belfast Agreement Irish republican attacks in and see above.
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Madame Tussaud started the phenomenon in , opening her first wax museum on Baker Street in London. A main attraction of the museum is, to this day, the Chamber of Horrors -- an exhibition that included victims of the French Revolution, murderers, and various other criminals today it has live actors that pretend to be "unhinged" inmates. All taken between and , the photos below are disturbing not only because of the type of people they depict, but because the figures in them have yet to be completed -- figures are headless, owner-less hands lie on top of one another, the head of Stalin glares at its creator -- and everything is, of course, spine-chillingly realistic.
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A technician works on broken hands from the waxworks. John Tussaud working on the 'big five', the leading statesmen of the Socialist Government.
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A cameraman films a couple of women as they craft waxwork heads for a new exhibition. Anti Hitler incidents -- a wax model of the German dictator painted in red. Learn more about Amazon Prime. Please try your request again later. Paul Tumilty was born in Leek, Staffordshire, in November Having taken early retirement from his career in , he started writing and completed his first novel, The Tussaud Incident, later that year.
A second novel, The Akula Incident followed in quick succession. However, his main love of the theatre guided him to concentrate on writing comedy plays for the theatre and television. Having lived on the Caribbean island of Roatan for four years, Paul and his wife Barbara have returned to England to Dorset where they live with their adopted Honduran cat, Callie.
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