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King Tubby
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on the streets of Kingston and playing dance music for the people. As a radio repairman, Tubby soon became quite helpful at most of the sound systems around. Tubby began working with Duke Reid in 1968. At Treasure Isle, a studio, Tubby began making remixes of hit songs, usually by simply removing the vocals. In time, Tubby (and others) began shifting the emphasis in the instrumentals, adding sounds and removing others and adding various special effects, like echoes. By 1971 (see 1971 in music), Tubby's soundsystem was one of the most popular in Kingston and he decided to open a studio of his own. His remixes soon proved enormously popular, and he became one of the biggest celebrities in Jamaica. During the 1970s, Tubby's work in the studio gave rise to
Kim Jong-il
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after, in 1950, the Korean War broke out and he was sent to Manchuria, returning three years later when it ended. Despite these hardships, Kim Jong-il was presumably surrounded by luxury and privilege throughout most of his childhood. Kim graduated from Namsan School in Pyongyang, a special school for the children of prominent communist revolutionaries and ranking communist party officials. He later attended Kim Il Sung University and majored in Political Economy, graduating in 1964. After graduating from Kim Il Sung University in 1964, Kim Jong Il began his ascension through the ranks of the ruling Korean Worker's Party, working first in the party's elite Organization Department before being named a member of the Party Politburo in 1968 and promoted to deputy director of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the
Kingston University, London
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the university is intending to raise its research profile, and at the present time it has about 17,000 students. The student profile is varied, and includes undergraduates who come soon after leaving school or college, mature students who may have been working for several years, and also postgraduate students studying full time, or part-time students who may be in employment, and wish to develop their careers. It operates on several sites: Penryhn Road Kingston Hill Knights Park Roehampton Vale The university also hosts Kingston Business School which is based on the Kingston Hill site.
Kilt
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linen or canvas, heavily pleated and sometimes quilted as protection. However it is really more like the Feileadh Beag, or little kilt, made with half the width of material of the 'great kilt', designed for military wear and so made of tartan or tweed cloth, box-pleated or knife-pleated (with pleats sewn in to speed the donning of the kilt) with the lower edges reaching not lower than the centre of the knee-cap. It dates from around the mid-18th Century, replacing the simpler belted plaid. The kilt is traditionally for men only, although in the modern era, long women's dresses patterned after kilts do exist, and women pipers frequently wear kilts. Kilten skirts for girls are also worn. Traditionally, what a Scotsman wears under his kilt is his own business and generally,
Kim Philby
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asked one of his tutors, Maurice Dobb, how he could serve the Communist movement. Dobb passed him on (possibly not knowing what it would lead to) to a Communist front organisation, which passed him on to the Comintern underground in Vienna. He was recruited by the Soviet intelligence service itself (at that time known as the OGPU) on the strength of his work for the Comintern. After working as a journalist Philby was recruited into the British Secret Intelligence Service (the so-called M.I.6) in 1940, later joining SOE and coming into contact with OSS agents. After the war Philby went first to Istanbul. He later became first secretary at the British embassy in Washington. He returned to Britain in 1950 and in 1951 managed to tip off Burgess and Maclean to
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