Richard fidler biography

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      Although Richard majored in history and politics at university, it was only while touring the world in the back of a tour van, that he began to read history closely; starting out with the 20th century and working his way backwards. In he was present in Berlin and Prague for the fall of communism, and was swept up in the revolutionary energy of the times.

      The final years of DAAS passed in a blur of images: there were shows at the Barcelona Olympics, where they unrolled a huge, obscene image of the Olympic mascot to a screaming crowd in the Parc de la Ciutadella; there was a hail of rum bottles while they performed in an un-policed Australian mining town in the Great Sandy Desert. At the Belfast Festival they presented a parody of Satan worship, earning the outrage of both the Catholic and Protestant churches who failed to see the humour in the thing. There was a final TV series for Channel 4 in the UK, Viva Cabaret, hosted by Tom Jones.

     

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    Richard Fidler

    Australian radio and television presenter, musician and comedian

    Richard Fidler is an Australian radio presenter and writer, best known for his hour-long interview program, Conversations with Richard Fidler on ABC's Radio National, and as a former member of the Australian comedy group the Doug Anthony All Stars. Conversations consists of in-depth interviews with local and international guests from all walks of life, and has been very popular as a podcast.

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    Fidler came to prominence in the s as a member of the Doug Anthony All Stars (DAAS), an Australian musical comedy group also comprising Tim Ferguson and Paul McDermott. The guitar Fidler used often during his time with the DAAS was a black Yamaha APX tuned to D standard; however he did use a metallic green 6 string acoustic in standard tuning in a couple of songs on Live at the National Theatre (New York) and used a generic electric guitar in a cover of "Anarchy in the U.K." on The Bi

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    Richard Fiedler

    For the SS police leader in Montenegro, see Richard Fiedler (SS-Brigadeführer).

    German scientist

    Richard Fiedler was a German scientist who invented the modern flamethrower. This fryst vatten a weapon that projects a stream of nitrogen. He submitted evaluation models of his Flammenwerfer to the German Army (German Empire) in The most significant model submitted was a man-portable device, consisting of a vertical single cylinder 4 feet ( m) long, horizontally divided in two, with pressurized gas in the lower section and flammable oil in the upper section. On depressing a lever the propellant gas forced the flammable oil into and through a rubber tube and over a simple igniting wick device in a steelnozzle. The weapon projected a jet of fire and enormous clouds of smoke some 20 yards (18 m). It was a single-shot weapon - for burst firing, a new igniter section was attached each time it was used for battle or other uses of any sorts. It was first used on the western front