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LOCAL LITERARY EVENT:

Tuesday, January 4, 2022

The 100-Year-Old-Man - Helpful Timeline

1905         Allan was born in Yxhult near Flen in Sweden

1915         Allan worked in NITROGLYCERINE LTD.

1918         Allan started Karlsson Dynamite Co. and was locked up in jail 4 years

1925-29   Blew up house in Yxjult; worked as an ignitions specialist

                Went to Spain with Esteban, met Franco

1939-45   Went to NY, then Los Alamos; Met Vice President Truman

1945-47   Job with Soong Mei-ling; meets Jiang Qing and Mao Tse-Tung 

1947-48   Met pastor in Tehran jail

                Met Winston Churchill en route  to Sweden

1948-53  Went to Leningrad with Popov

                Dinner with Stalin

                Gulag with Herbert Einstein

                Vladivostok destroyed

                Goes to North Korea and meets Kim il-sung and Kim Jong-il

1953-68  Goes to Bali

               Meets Nixon

               Volcano eruption

1968       Moves to Paris with Ambassador Einstein

               Meets LBJ and DeGaulle

1968-82  Meets Yury Popov at Bolshoi theater opera, job as spy

               Social Services puts Allan in Old Folks' Home

2005       Climbs out the window

               Meets Bolt, Julius, Benny, Beauty, Sonya, Bucket, Boss Pike,

                Bosse (Benny's brother), and Chief Inspector Aronsson, and 

                Pike's mother

              Meets an old Indonesian friend

Who said it?

" If you smoke, you won't be much good at soccer."

"Things are what they are and whatever will be, will be."

"Don't forget, John 8:7"

"Teetotalers in general were a threat to world peace."

Thanks to Cindy T. for this timeline!


                  

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