Ricin immunogenic in mice, rabbits, and humans. It has completed two successful clinical trials. Ricin has been involved in a number of incidents. In 1978, the Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov was assassinated by Bulgarian secret police who surreptitiously shot him on a London street with a modified umbrella using compressed gas to fire a tiny pellet contaminated with ricin into his leg. He died in a hospital a few days later and his body was passed to a special poison branch of the British Ministry of Defence (MOD) that discovered the pellet during an autopsy. The prime suspects were the Bulgarian
Waterloo Bridge (1931 film) Waterloo Bridge (1931 film) Waterloo Bridge is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by James Whale. The screenplay by Benn Levy and Tom Reed is based on the 1930 "Waterloo Bridge" by Robert E. Sherwood. The film was remade in 1940 as "Waterloo Bridge" and as "Gaby" in 1956. Both remakes were made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which bought the 1931 version from Universal. Today, the rights to all three films are held by Warner Bros. and their subsidiary Turner Entertainment. Unable to find work in London at the height of World War I, American chorus girl Myra Deauville resorts to