Wendo Kolosoy called ""Windsor"" (a homage to the Duke of Windsor and a play on the British Royalty theme of his band "Victoria Kin") which evolved into ""Wendo Sor"" and simply ""Sor"". He is most widely known as Wendo or Papa Wendo. In the mid-1940s, he began playing guitar around the capital Kinshasa (then Leopoldville) with his Cuban style band Victoria Bakolo Miziki. He had met Nicolas Jéronimidis, a Greek businessman, on a steamer returning to Leopoldville from Dakar in 1946, and in 1947 Jéronimidis agreed to record Wendo's music for his new Leopoldville based record label Ngoma. Imitating the bandleader Paul
HMS Cheshire HMS Cheshire HMS "Cheshire" (F18), was a ship of the Royal Navy, named after the English county of Cheshire. Previously a cruise ship, she served as an armed merchant cruiser acting as convoy escort and troopship in World War II. "Cheshire" proved doughty in her military role: She was torpedoed twice by U-boats but survived each and returned to service after extensive repairs. She also survived a U-boat attack on a small convoy of troopships transiting the English Channel from Southampton, England to Cherbourg, France, containing just herself and , with over 800 lives lost when "Leopoldville" went down. During