It is a matter of debate among Tintin fans whether Tintin's arch-enemy Rastapopoulos makes his first appearance in this book ( albeit simply in a one-off cameo ).

Next to him is a young blonde-haired woman: in the 1932 black-and-white edition of the book this woman is referred to as " Mary Pikefort ", a thin disguise for the actress Mary Pickford ; this is significant because Rastapopoulos is a movie mogul when he appears in Cigars of the Pharaoh.

In the unfinished Tintin and Alph-Art, a character often thought to be Rastapopoulos in disguise — under the name of Endaddine Akass — appears.

Rastapopoulos also appears in Tintin and the Lake of Sharks, an animated feature which was adapted into a similarly titled book in which Hergé had no creative input.

* Rastapopoulos ( Cigars of the Pharaoh and The Blue Lotus );

Di Gorgonzola ( who is actually Rastapopoulos, the leader of the international opium smugglers from Cigars of the Pharaoh and The Blue Lotus ) finds out from the Arab that Haddock has taken control of the ship, and sends a Type VII U-Boat to attack them.

However, it is not until the dénouement of The Blue Lotus, the follow-up to Cigars of the Pharaoh, that Rastapopoulos is revealed to be the head of the sinister opium cartel against which Tintin has been pitting his wits during the course of two books.

However, it has been argued that anti-Semitic themes continued, especially in the depiction of Tintin's enemy Rastapopoulos in the post-war Flight 714, though other writers argue against this, pointing out the way that Rastapopoulos surrounds himself with explicitly German-looking characters: Kurt, the submarine ( or u-boat ) commander of The Red Sea Sharks ; Doctor Krollspell, whom Hergé himself referred to as a former concentration camp official, and Hans Boehm, the sinister-looking navigator and co-pilot, both from Flight 714.

Tintin's old nemesis and the mastermind of the plot in the book is the evil Rastapopoulos, who Frey argues is an example of anti-Semitic caricature, though other writers argue against this, pointing out that Rastapopoulos is not Jewish ( his drugged ramblings about the past of his family mentioning Erzurum and his surname make him likely a Turk of Greek ethnicity ), and surrounds himself with explicitly German-looking characters: Kurt, the submarine commander of The Red Sea Sharks, Doctor Krollspell, whom Hergé himself referred to as a former concentration camp official and Hans Boehm, the sinister-looking navigator and co-pilot, both from Flight 714.

Rastapopoulos, freed from his bonds, sends Allan and his Sondonesian henchmen to either kill or capture the fugitives.

Meanwhile, Rastapopoulos and his henchmen flee the eruption by running down the outside of the volcano and launch a rubber dinghy from Carreidas ' plane.

* Writer Hugo Frey argues that Rastapopoulos ' appearance was an example of post-war anti-Semitism on Hergé's part, though other writers argue against this, pointing out that Rastapopoulos is not Jewish and surrounds himself with explicitly German-looking characters: Kurt, the submarine commander of The Red Sea Sharks ; Doctor Krollspell, whom Hergé himself referred to as a former concentration camp official ; and Hans Boehm, the sinister-looking navigator and co-pilot, both from Flight 714.

Rastapopoulos promises to set Niko and Nushka free for the device, but, unaware of Tintin's arrival, the children escape from their cell and hijack an underwater tank.

In this story, Rastapopoulos is depicted as a villain directing operations from a secret underwater base.

He planned to cast Rastapopoulos as the villain, but according to Harry Thompson, dropped the idea in 1980 when he introduced the alphabet art element.

* Endaddine Akass is revealed as Rastapopoulos.

* An alternative page featuring Rastapopoulos — this would have taken the place of pages 39 – 40.

Big business was also shown as a cover for illegal activities: Rastapopoulos for example is a respected businessman who mixes with people in high places, but is also the leader of major smuggling operations: opium in The Blue Lotus and slaves in The Red Sea Sharks.

Rastapopoulos and Mitsuhirato have an Arabic counterpart in Omar Ben Salaad of The Crab with the Golden Claws.

In this story Rastapopoulos becomes the Marquis di Gorgonzola, a media baron, airline owner, and arms dealer, who entertains influential people on board his luxury yacht.

When Emir Ben Kalish Ezab threatens to expose this for personal reasons, Rastapopoulos engineers his overthrow in favour of the Emir's enemy, Sheikh Bab El Ehr.

Rastapopoulos and Mitsuhirato are two such examples ; but there is also Laszlo Carreidas of Flight 714.

The mastermind of the plot then reveals himself as the evil Rastapopoulos, intent on taking Carreidas ' fortune.

Rastapopoulos takes Carreidas to another bunker where his accomplice, Dr. Krollspell, injects the millionaire with a truth serum to enable Rastapopulos to learn Carreidas's Swiss bank account number, Rastapopulos already knowing the Bank, Carreidas ' false name, and having examples of the false signature.

Unfortunately for Rastapopoulos, Carreidas becomes all too eager to tell the truth about his life of greed, perfidy and corruption – everything except the Swiss bank account.

He too recounts hideous deeds in a boasting manner, and as he and Carreidas begin to quarrel over which is the more evil Rastapopoulos reveals that nearly all of the men he recruited, including Spalding, the aircraft pilots, and ( the increasingly unnerved ) Krollspell, are already marked to be killed.

However, Krollspell, in fear of Rastapopoulos, throws in his lot with Tintin and Haddock ; he is subsequently released and continues to accompany Tintin and Haddock, watching the still irritable Carreidas.

An earthquake and the explosion set off by Rastapopoulos and his men triggers a volcanic eruption.

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The character of Jane Marple in the first Miss Marple book, The Murder at the Vicarage, is markedly different from how she appears in later books.

The term Animism appears to have been first developed as animismus by German scientist Georg Ernst Stahl, circa 1720, to refer to the " doctrine that animal life is produced by an immaterial soul.

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Early evidence of such practices appears as markings on bones and cave walls, which show that lunar cycles were being noted as early as 25, 000 years ago ; the first step towards recording the Moon ’ s influence upon tides and rivers, and towards organizing a communal calendar.

Although anthems were written in the Elizabethan period by Tallis ( 1505 – 1585 ), Byrd ( 1539 – 1623 ), and others, they are not mentioned in the Book of Common Prayer until 1662, when the famous rubric " In quires and places where they sing here followeth the Anthem " first appears.

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There were a number of " commentaries " on the Sentences, but Alexander appears to have been the first magisterial commentary.

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Rabbi Steinsaltz's classic work of Kabbalah, The Thirteen Petalled Rose, was first published in 1980 and now appears in eight languages.

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