#walther

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hitler's golden gun

the only picture of the actual gun i could find

"hitlers golden gun", a 7.65mm walther semi-automatic pistol was gifted to him by the man himself, carl walther on hitlers 50th birthday, 20th of april 1939.

the gun was likely first manufactured in '35 and engraved much later. the engraving reads "ehrengabe der familien walther" which roughly translates to "honorarium from the walther family".

this was not the gun hitler shot himself with.

the pistol was supposedly discovered in a safe in hitler's old munich appartment in late 1945 and brought to america, where it was auctioned off in 1987 for $114 000. there was very little publicity about the auction, to the point where avid collectors at the time had no idea about it. the buyer was private firearms collector who to this day remains anonymous and isn't allowing pictures to be taken of the gun.

a replica made by the american historical foundation

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No Time To Die (2021)

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Casino Royale (2006)

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Roaming the Mineral-Rich Southern Lunar Terrain // Alien_Enthusiast

Read below the cut for some info about which craters are featured and a map to help identify them!

In birth order of their eponyms:

Purbach crater is named after Austrian astronomer Georg von Peuerbach (1423-1461) who aimed at making astronomy accessible for the average European during the Renaissance with his textbook, Theoricae Novae Planetarum.

Walther crater is named after the German merchant Bernhard Walther (1430-1504) who was a noted observer of the motions of the planets.

Regiomontanus crater is named after German mathematician Johannes Müller von Königsberg (1436-1476) who helped develop the heliocentric theory of the solar system with trigonometry.

Orontius crater is named after the French mathematician Oronce Finé (1494-1555) who published an astronomy textbook De mundi sphaera which guided readers on the use of equipment and proper astronomy methods.

Nonius crater is named for Pedro Nunes (1502-1578), a Portuguese mathematician who used trigonometry to make improvements to the geocentric model of the solar system.

Hell crater is not named after the land of Satan, but instead is named after Hungarian astronomer Maximilian Hell (1720-1792) who was the director of the Vienna Observatory and observed the 1769 transit of Venus.

Lexell crater is named after the Finnish astronomer Andres Johan Lexell (1740-1784), a prolific member of the Russian Academy of Sciences who made important discoveries in celestial mechanics. He was the first to prove that Uranus was a planet rather than a comet.

Miller crater is named after William Allen Miller (1817-1870), a British chemist who aided William Huggins in studying the spectra of astronomical objects, primarily stars.

Huggins crater is named after the British astronomer William Huggins (1824-1910) who pioneered the realm of astronomical spectroscopy, becoming the first to take the spectrum of a planetary nebula.

Bell crater is named after none other than Canadian inventor Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) most famous for inventing the telephone, but who also had inventions in aeronautics.

Deslandres crater is named for Henri Alexandre Deslandres (1853-1948), a French astronomer who was the director of the Paris Observatories and carried out studies on the atmosphere of the Sun.

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German film actor Walther Rilla on a vintage postcard

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Roger Moore twirling his Walther PPK on location in Egypt for The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). The PPK Roger uses in this film is the same one he had in his two preceding Bond movies and it bore the serial number 285XXX. This particular pistol takes a break for a few movies (although it may have been used in some scenes in A View to a Kill) and returns in The Living Daylights (1987) in the hands of Timothy Dalton.

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Image from a Time Bokan laser disc release, drawn by Takehiko Itō.

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strapped in C. Walther

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Swiss architect Werner Walther, 1969.

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