And in several stories there is a secret agent, Sir James le Lein ( le lien is French for " bond "; a clear James Bond reference ).

He visited the ruins of Babylon and the subterranean secret of Memphis and spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of Arabia — the Roba El Khaliyeh or " Empty Space " of the ancients — and " Dahna " or " Crimson " desert of the modern Arabs, which is held to be inhabited by protective evil spirits and monsters of death.

The classic example, considered by their American counterparts quite curious, was the maintenance of the internal comma in a British organisation of secret agents called the " Special Operations, Executive " — " S. O., E " — which is not found in histories written after about 1960.

An argot (; French, Spanish, and Catalan for " slang ") is a secret language used by various groups — including, but not limited to, thieves and other criminals — to prevent outsiders from understanding their conversations.

This is a reasonable assumption in practice — throughout history, there are countless examples of secret algorithms falling into wider knowledge, variously through espionage, betrayal and reverse engineering.

The fictional secret agent is more often a loner, sometimes amoral — an existential hero operating outside the everyday constraints of society.

Pinafore relied on stock character types, many of which were familiar from European opera ( and some of which grew out of Gilbert's earlier association with the German Reeds ): the heroic protagonist ( tenor ) and his love-interest ( soprano ); the older woman with a secret or a sharp tongue ( contralto ); the baffled lyric baritone — the girl's father ; and a classic villain ( bass-baritone ).

On 4 October 1943, during a secret meeting with top SS officials in the city of Poznań ( Posen ), and on 6 October 1943, in a speech to the party elite — the Gau and Reich leaders — Himmler referred explicitly to the " extermination " ( German: Ausrottung ) of the Jewish people.

Against the Gnostics, who said that they possessed a secret oral tradition from Jesus himself, Irenaeus maintained that the bishops in different cities are known as far back as the Apostles — and none of them was a Gnostic — and that the bishops provided the only safe guide to the interpretation of Scripture.

In his writing against the Gnostics, who claimed to possess a secret oral tradition from Jesus himself, Irenaeus maintained that the bishops in different cities are known as far back as the Apostles — and none were Gnostic — and that the bishops provided the only safe guide to the interpretation of Scripture.

Hoover kept the intercepts — America's greatest counterintelligence secret — in a locked safe in his office, choosing not to inform President Truman, Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, or two Secretaries of State — Dean Acheson and General George Marshall — while they held office.

The corresponding noun is amor ( the significance of this term for the Romans is well illustrated in the fact, that the name of the City, Rome — in Latin: Roma — can be viewed as an anagram for amor, which was used as the secret name of the City in wide circles in ancient times ), which is also used in the plural form to indicate love affairs or sexual adventures.

When Prometheus decides to steal the secret of fire from the gods, Zeus becomes infuriated and decides to punish humankind with an " evil thing for their delight " — Pandora, the first woman, who carried a jar ( usually described — incorrectly — as a box ) she was told to never open.

Musashi applied to become a swordmaster to the Shogun, but as he already had two swordmasters ( Ono Jiroemon Tadaaki and Yagyū Munenori — the latter also a political advisor, in addition to his position as the head of the Shogunate's secret police ), Musashi's application was denied.

Holmes would also pose in various underground porn magazines as well as appearing in additional 8mm loops or stag films, while keeping his profession a secret from his wife until 1968.

While initially appearing to be quite a simple game, Rainbow Islands in fact has a vast number of secrets for the player to discover, including secret levels, secret power-ups and riddles.

The wedding was at Oheka Castle, his family's estate on Long Island, and was kept secret from the public for two weeks, until the Broadway show Williams was appearing in, Sweet and Low, had had its final performances.

Chris disappears after only appearing in one episode ( his absence is never explained ) while telepathic secret agent, Tricia Conway appears in 2 stories before fully breaking out in the season climax which saw the young heroes menaced by old rival, Jedikiah.

However, O ' Ree managed to keep it secret, and made his NHL debut with the Bruins on January 18, 1958, against the Montreal Canadiens, becoming the first black player in league history, appearing in two games that year, and came back in 1961 to play 43 games, playing with smooth Boston centre Don McKenney and winger Jerry Toppazzini.

The history of can be traced back to the early Edo Period, when establishments appearing to be inns or teahouses with particular procedures for a discreet entry or even with secret tunnels for a discreet exit were built in Edo and in Kyoto.

Though Mould's sexual orientation had previously been something of an open secret, he was outed in the early 1990s in an interview in the music magazine Spin ; he came to terms with being openly gay, even appearing in the movie Bear Nation, self-identifying as a bear.

Earth-19 ( the Gotham by Gaslight universe ), set in a Victorian-like era, has its own version of Dan Garrett who in his secret identity is the leading Egyptologist at the Gotham Museum of Natural History and wears a monocle, appearing in The Search for Ray Palmer: Gotham by Gaslight.

( as Nick, for which he was nominated for an Oscar ), later appearing as a British secret service agent in The Quiller Memorandum, a Cagneyesque gangster in The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, perplexed police detective Mo Brummel in No Way to Treat a Lady, a bookworm in The Owl and the Pussycat, a war-weary platoon commander in The Bridge at Remagen, a man laying waste to his marriage in Loving, and a hairdresser turned junkie in Born to Win.

Franklin even kept his membership of Power Pack a secret from his own parents: when he appeared before them in image form ( see above ) he would stick to ordinary clothes, only appearing in his Power Pack outfit before other heroes such as Kitty Pryde.

170 Franciscans were arrested in Koblenz and tried for “ corrupting youth ” in a secret trial, with numerous allegations of priestly debauchery appearing in the Nazi-controlled press, while a film produced for the Hitler Youth showed men dressed as priests dancing in a brothel.

He also appeared on episodes of Airwolf ( he played Maxwell in " And A Child Shall Lead ") and Mission: Impossible ( he usually played a vicious, unfunny Frank Burns-type Gestapo secret policeman ), Murder She Wrote ( in which he plays a policeman who thinks Jessica Fletcher is a CIA agent ), Adam 12 ( in which he plays a policeman ); The Rockford Files ( playing a petulant, Frank Burns-type psychologist ), and before appearing on M * A * S * H, Linville played a doctor on the TV Movie The Night Stalker, a predecessor of the Kolchak television series-in an episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, in which he played the youngest police captain on the force.

It describes Jesus Christ appearing and giving secret knowledge ( gnosis ) to the apostle John.

In 2011, Yoba began appearing as former FBI Special Agent Bill Harken on Alphas, a science fiction drama series about a team of people with special abilities who belong to a secret department attached to the DOD.

First appearing in Young All-Stars # 1 ( June 1987 ), these super-villains were Adolf Hitler's secret weapon against the All-Star Squadron.

The producers of the film stated it was never a secret that they had used a stunt double, and that Jahan's name not appearing in the film was due to Paramount Pictures shortening the closing credits.

While appearing as a guest star on Hollywood Squares ( another popular NBC game show in the 1960s and 1970s ), Fleming was once selected as the " secret square.

The hoax has been attributed to the creation of both Akuma and Gouken as characters in the Street Fighter series, with the former appearing in Super Street Fighter II Turbo as a secret boss.

It was entitled, Take your Choice, a second edition appearing under the new title of The Legislative Rights of the Commonalty Vindicated, and advocated annual parliaments, the secret ballot and manhood suffrage.

Ronald Leigh-Hunt as the British secret service agent Colonel Buchan was the most regular cast member, appearing in series 1-4 and series 6.

Patton instructed physicist Robert Millikan, then the chairman of the board of trustees of the Huntington Library, to make no official record of the transaction, and to keep their possession of the materials secret during Patton's lifetime.

At the time DisplayPort was announced, VESA was criticized for developing the specification in secret and having a track record of developing unsuccessful digital interface standards, including Plug & Display and Digital Flat Panel.

Regarded by Gene Gotti as an unnecessary vanity-inspired risk, and by FBI Gambino squad leader Bruce Mouw as antithematic to the " secret society ", this move allowed FBI surveillance to record and identify much of the Gambino hierarchy.

Zhu used the term " patriotic organizations " to describe the triads on the record for their past history as secret societies in resisting foreign invaders and playing a key role in Chinese history.

The flight was made after a drop launch from a carrier plane to conserve fuel, a record that was kept secret until the war's end.

For many years the operations of the OSS remained secret, but in the 1970s and 1980s, significant parts of the OSS history were declassified and became public record.

A secret trial was conducted against him of which no official record is available to date.

McNamara claimed that he wanted to leave a written record for historians, but kept the study secret from the rest of the Johnson administration.

However, since its existence is a matter of Gallifreyan public record and its influence is well-known, it appears to be less of a secret agency than an agency whose operations are sometimes secret, much like the actual CIA.

All minutes are a matter of public record except when they need to remain secret long enough to protect the legal purposes of the session.

In the RSA SecurID authentication scheme, the seed record is the secret key used to generate one-time passwords.

The Czech Presidential election of 2008 differed from past ones in that the voting was on the record, rather than by secret ballot.

Songs are performed preferably in a diphthong, the first and second voice which is a special secret performance of this music and some performers sing in troglasu as they do Kalesijski triple that in 1968 and recorded the first written record of the tone on the album, along with Higurashi no naku.

This fact was kept secret for many years as the FAI rules at the time required that a pilot must land with the spacecraft for the purposes of FAI record books.

These aspects would include: the use of roving wiretaps, secret record searches, detention and deportation of noncitizens, monitoring of religious institutions and the requirement that airport baggage screeners be U. S. citizens.

Provisions are made at the polling place for the voters to record their preferences in secret.

Although it was a widely known " open secret " that Hatfield was gay, he never publicly came out as such during his lifetime, and his sexual orientation only began to be acknowledged on the record in media and biographical sources after his death.

The record is unofficial because the flight ( and the Me 163 programme ) is kept secret.

It became a worst-kept secret that Jackie Wilson's 1967 hit "( Your Love Keeps Lifting Me ) Higher & Higher " didn't have a Motown influence quite by accident — the Funk Brothers migrated to do the Wilson session, in an interesting reference to Motown's early history: Berry Gordy, Jr. got his first music break by getting Wilson to record some of his songs ( most famously " Reet Petite ") in the 1950s.

They record that fangshi " masters of esoterica ; alchemists ; magicians ", supposedly followers of Zou Yan ( 305 – 240 BCE ), claimed to know secret locations like Mount Penglai where the magic zhi mushroom grew.

Just weeks after Watts joined, the band played secret warm up gigs in Buckley, Greenock and Lancaster, before heading to North Hollywood to record with David Bowie and T. Rex producer Tony Visconti.

Finally, in mid-October, Bishop Silva sent her a letter containing a direct order to record the secret, and Lúcia obeyed.

One of these efforts included the band contributing four tracks for the double album ' Secrets ', a record organised by the Danish Rock Council to create interest in four talented but ' secret ' new bands.