Steve Rogers aka Captain America is a fictional superhero who appears in comic books by timely comics and movies created by Marvel Worldwide.
Steve attempted to enlist in the U.S Army in the early 1940s but did not pass the physical requirements due to malnutrition and height.
A scientist called Abraham Erskine recreates the Super Soldier Serum for Operation: Rebirth for the U.S. Army. Steve soon became the professors test subject for the serum.
He has no superhuman powers but undergoing his Vita-Ray treatment he now has super strength, speed, durability and endurance.
Operation Rebirth is a US Government project managed by the US Army to create “Super-Soldiers” to fight in the 2nd world war. The project began as a collaboration between US, British and German eugenicists led by Dr Abraham Erskine. The serum was believed to only be successful in 1 of out 4 participants. The project had already failed on two subjects: Clinton McIntyre and the first mutant experiment.
Clinton aka Protocide was found in a S.H.I.E.L.D warehouse. When he was discovered, the agent soon found out that his body contained a prototype version of the Super Soldier Serum which is what killed him initially.
He was found be an agent who worked for “AIM”. AIM then decided to bring Clinton back to life and also changed his name due to the fact that he was a prototype.
A.I.M. was a group of international science-terrorists which first began during the 2nd World War. They were tasked to develop advanced weaponry for a secret subversive organisation called Hydra. Hydra’s intentions were kept secret but A.I.M. remained in the public eye as innocent and also gained great influence with the U.S. government as being the supplier of weaponry and hardware.
Nick Fury later then exposed A.I.M. as a subversive organisation.
Nick Fury was a veteran spy and soldier and also the director of SHIELD.
Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement and Logistics Division.
Fighting terrorism and menaces as an international intelligence agency.
Military Intelligence, Section 5. The U.K.’s domestic counter-intelligence and security agency focused on foreign threats.
MI5 is a government department under the authority of the Secretary of State - in practice the Home Secretary.
MI5 accordingly works outside the UK where this is necessary to protect the UK's national security. They will also do this to counter security threats to British interests.
Sir Vernon George Waldegrave Kell was the founder and first director of the British Security Service (MI5)
After graduating from the Royal Military College, Kell was commissioned into the South Staffordshire Regiment and fought in the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. He could speak German, Italian, French and Polish. He was also the foreign correspondent of The Daily Telegraph.
The daily telegraph is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper, published in London and distributed throughout the U.K. and internationally.
The newspaper was founded by Arthur B. Sleigh in June 1855 as The Daily Telegraph and Courier, and since 2004 has been owned by David and Frederick Barclay. Its sister paper is The Sunday Telegraph which started in 1961.
The first edition was published 29 June 1855, it was 4 pages long and cost 2d.
The pre-decimal penny (1d) was a coin worth one two-hundred-and-fortieth of a pound sterling.
Before Decimal Day in 1971 twelve pence made a shilling, and twenty shillings made a pound, hence 240 pence in one pound. Values of less than a shilling were written in terms of pence, e.g. seven pence would be 7d.
Its symbol was d, from the Roman denarius.
A denarius is an ancient Roman coin made of silver.
The word denarius is derived from the Latin word dēnī which means "containing ten“.
It was first minted about 211 BC during the Second Punic War.
The War Against Hannibal lasted from 218 to 201 BC.
This was the second major war between Carthage and the Roman Republic and its allied Italic socii.
They are called the "Punic Wars" because Rome's name for Carthaginians was Poeni.
Carthage is a city in Tunisia that was once the center of the ancient Carthaginian civilization.
The area of Carthage was inhabited by Berber people.
Native Berbers and settling Phoenicians in Carthage mixed in different ways including religion and language, creating the Punic language and culture.
Today, most Berber people live in Northern African countries, such as Algeria and Morocco; a small Berber population is also found in Niger, Mali, Libya, Tunisia, and Egypt.
Currently there are 25 million Berbers living in Morocco and in Algeria.
Predominantly Sunni Muslim, minority consists of Christian, Ibadi and Jewish.
Ororo Munroe was raised in Morocco and fled to the U.S. after both parents had died.
She learned English from watching U.S. TV.
Storm's mutant powers manifested during her youth, she was too frightened to experiment with them.
The X-Men arranged her release and recruited her hours later. Ororo, now called Storm, learned several new applications of her powers, including the ability to fly and controlling the weather. She then became attracted to fellow student Hank McCoy, a.k.a. the Beast.
Also referred to as Marvel Comics, an American publisher of comic books.
Martin Goodman founded the company later known as Marvel Comics under the name Timely Publications in 1939.
He first appeared in Captain America Comics #1 (cover dated March 1941) from Timely Comics.
