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Indiana
Jones' Adolescent years |
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February
1916:
We next see Indy in one of his first jobs (a soda
jerk in Princeton, New Jersey). However, even far
from any of the traditional adventure sites, Indy
still manages to find trouble. This time it isn't
over an ancient artifact, but rather over the plans
for a new battery for electric cars and a conspiracy
to protect oil company profits.
(Chapter
6: Spring Break Adventure - tv-series) |
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March
1916:
The fire-eyed Jackal (lost in May 1908) is finally
found during an adventure in which Indy works for
(actually, gets captured by) Pancho Villa. A
short while later, Indy hears from T.E. Lawrence
again and is convinced to return to Europe to join
in World War 1.
(Chapter
6: Spring Break Adventure - tv-series) |
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April
1916:
Indy and new friend, Remy, head to London from Mexico.
Unfortunately, during a stopover in Dublin, they
run out of funds and are forced to get jobs in a
local pub. While there, the Easter Rebellion occurs,
during which religious beliefs differ from his own.
(Chapter 7: Love's Sweet
Song - tv-series) |
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While Indy heads
to Europe, the family dog (Indiana) dies. |
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May
1916:
The duo (Indy and Remy) finally arrive in London
and end up joining the Belgian Army. Before departing
for war, Indy gets caught up in a romance with a
suffragette named Vicky. They attend a suffragette
meeting together and even go a dinner party at which
Winston Churchill is a guest. Indiana eventually
proposes to Vicky, but she declines and he heads
to Europe.
(Chapter
7: Love's Sweet Song - tv-series) |
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August
1916:
The Battle of the Somme, at the time, was the one
of the deadliest battles ever fought. Over one million
soldiers (British, French and German) lost their
lives. The British lost nearly 60.000 in one day,
despite the fact that they outnumbered German opposition
six to one. It is during this battle that the British
first put the tank into use. Indy takes
part in this battle within a French-led Belgian
unit. He has some initial problems at first
having to work with others, which results in mistrust
and tension with a fellow soldier. Others in the
unit also experience similar tensions, but they
pull together during an attack on the Germans. Indy's
life is even saved by the officer he mistrusted.
Soon after their attack, the Germans launch a counterattack.
No reinforcements arrive to save the Belgian unit
and Indy is taken prisoner.
He makes several escape attempts but is caught each
time and eventually gets sent to a maximum security
prison. There, he meets Charles DeGaulle (a future
French general), who is impressed with Indy's courage.
Together, they plan another escape, utilizing the
coffins of dead prisoners. DeGaulle is ultimately
captured, but Indy finally escapes.
But Indy's luck doesn't hold out for long. After
escaping, he joins what he thinks is a German road-mending
group. It instead turns out to be a work force of
British POWs that are being taken to Berlin. Indy
is caught during a roll-call, but quick thinking
saves him again. He tells the camp leaders
that he is a double agent for the Germans and is
sent ahead to Berlin. Once there, Indy is able to
contact the American Embassy.
(Chapter
8: The Trenches of Hell - tv-series) |
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September
1916:
Broadened by his experiences on the front, Indy
decides to stay in Europe, despite being given the
opportunity to return home. He joins with the French
as a courier in the trenches and is able to learn
about the politics behind war. Indy hears from Lawrence
again and attempts to halt a battle by delaying
a message.
(Chapter
9: Demons of Deception - tv-series) |
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October
1916:
Indy gets a break from his courier duties and heads
to Paris on leave. He and Remy plan to look
for girls and Indy is immediately successful.
He meets Mata Hari at a party and begins an affair
with her. However, the affair is short-lived when
he learns that she is seeing several other men as
well, most notably the French Minister of War. He
soon discovers that in addition to being unfaithful,
she is a spy. She denies his charges, but eventually
Indy washes his hands of her and returns to his
unit.
(Chapter 9: Demons
of Deception - tv-series) |
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November
1916:
Once there, Indy requests and receives a transfer
to Africa. Remy joins him, but the two get lost
in transit. They come across a troop of very unorthodox
and elderly men. Despite their age, they teach Indy
a lesson or two about the capabilities of the elderly
as the "25th Royal Fusiliers" complete
a mission to capture a store of German guns.
Realizing that their brief vacation with the old
guard could be considered being AWOL, Indy and Remy
begin to worry about joining their unit. The
leader of the Fusiliers, Fred Selous, aids them
by taking them behind German Lines. Several of the
others also join in, disguising themselves as Boers
and traveling across the country in covered wagons.
They are captured by the Germans, but even more
of the cunning of the aged unit shows as Indy discovers
that this was actually part of their plan: they
were hoping to be taken to German General Von Lettow-Vorbeck.
Indy, Remy and the general are then thrust into
a series of misadventures that begins with them
being cast adrift in an observation balloon.
(Chapter 10: Phantom Train
of Doom - tv-series) |
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December
1916:
Indy finally makes it to his Belgian unit near Lake
Tanganyika. Unfortunately, as he leads his troops
across the Belgian Congo, many of the men (including
Indy himself) become extremely sick.
(Chapter 11: Oganga, The
Giver and Taker of Life - tv-series) |
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January
1917:
Indy reaches a jungle hospital run by Albert Schweitzer.
The troops are cured of their illness and Indy and
Schweitzer discuss philosophy and the ethics
of civilization. Seeing Schweitzer working alone
to cure the ills of the locals inspires Indiana
and he vows to do whatever he can to help end the
war.
(Chapter 11: Oganga,
The Giver and Taker of Life - tv-series) |
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February/March/April
1917:
Working with the French Secret Service, Indy joins
the legendary Lafayette Escadrille flying unit and
embarks on dangerous airborne reconnaissance missions
behind enemy lines. A run-in with German Ace Manfred
von Richthofen leads to a death-defying dogfight
that leaves Indy grounded and hot-in-pursuit of
German aircraft designer Anthony Fokker. Undercover
in hostile enemy territory, Indy discovers that
the Germans possess a remarkable secret weapon that
could change the course of the war and he resolves
to bring news of it back to the Allies... if he
doesn't destroy it first.
(Chapter
12: Attack of the Hawkmen - tv-series) |
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Late
April 1917:
Switzerland and Austria are the sites of Indiana's
next escapade. Disguised as a spy and traveling
with royalty, Indy meets with the Austrian Emperor
to discuss the matter of separate peace between
Austria and the Allies.
(Chapter
13: Adventures in the Secret Service - tv-series) |
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May 1917:
Having graduated from courier duty to military intelligence,
Indy visits Barcelona. While there, he adopts the
cover of a member of the Ballet Rousse. His mission
is to encourage the Spanish to turn against the
Germans.
(Chapter 14: Espionage Escapades
- tv-series) |
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July 1917:
Intelligence sends Indy to the French Embassy in
Russia. He befriends several local students who
are very passionate about their political beliefs.
He tries to gain information about the Bolshevik
uprising and is caught up in the riots during a
failed attempt to overthrow the provisional government.
He learns that friendship and trust only go so far
during a revolution.
(Chapter 13: Adventures
in the Secret Service - tv-series) |
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August 1917:
After the revolution, Indy is pulled back from Russia
and sent on assignment to Prague. He encounters
all kinds of bureaucratic nightmares in trying to
set up residence so that he can receive information
from a double agent.
(Chapter 14: Espionage Escapades
- tv-series) |
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October 1917:
Indy is ordered to aid the British against the Turks
in freeing Jerusalem. False documents are
planted and a sting operation is set up, with Indy
being sent to Beersheba with another agent to obtain
defense information. The Turks become convinced
that the Gaza is the objective rather than Beersheba,
and in their absence the Australian Light Horse
Brigade makes the mission a success.
(Chapter 15: Daredevils
of the Desert - tv-series) |
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January
1918:
After an Austrian POW camp is attacked, Indy is
sent to Romania to find a separatist general believed
to be responsible. His group discovers a castle
and locates the missing soldiers along with several
others of various nationalities. While trying to
leave, they meet the master of the castle, and Indy
experiences another brush with the supernatural
-- the master is revealed to be a vampire (Vlad
the Impaler), which frees the soldiers from Vlad's
influence and allows them to finally rest in peace.
(Chapter 17: Masks of Evil
- tv-series) |
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June
1918:
Indy is now a spy in Italy, infiltrating enemy lines
and trying to persuade Czech conscripts in the Austrian
army to desert. He is in love with an Italian girl,
and while courting her, discovers that he has competition.
He gets involved in a contest of one-upmanship with
his rival, only to learn that the girl is engaged
to yet another man. On the way back from dinner,
Indy is caught in a shelling attack and spends some
time in the hospital thinking over the merits of
love versus friendship.
(Chapter 16: Tales of Innocence
- tv-series) |
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September
1918:
While in Istanbul, Indy falls in love with an American
schoolteacher he meet at an orphanage school. Indy
hides his identity as a spy from Molly (the schoolteacher).
When she discovers the truth, she is infuriated
and leaves. She returns later when she realizes
that she still loves him despite his deception.
Unfortunately, she is mistakenly shot by a double
agent when she returns to Indy's apartment. Indy
kills the agent, but Molly dies in his arms.
(Chapter 17: Masks of Evil
- tv-series) |
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November 1918:
The war in Europe ends but a new adventure begins
for Indy when a mysterious man's dying words, "The
eye of the peacock!" send him and Remy on a
thrilling treasure hunt for one of Alexander the
Great's most treasured possessions. Pursued by a
dangerous one-eyed man, Indy follows the trail of
the diamond from London to Alexandria to the South
Seas where he has a run-in with a murderous band
of Chinese pirates. The shipboard battle that
ensues is a spectacular display of swords, guns
and flying fists. Marooned by the pirates on a remote
desert island, Indy is captured by savage headhunters,
but before they can turn him into a shrunken head
and cannibal stew, he is rescued by anthropologist
Bronislaw Malinowski and makes a life-altering decision.
(Chapter 18: Treasure of
the Peacock's Eye - tv-series) |
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May
1919:
Indy returns to France to be a translator at the
Paris Peace Conference. He gets a chance to meet
with T.E. Lawrence again and hear Prince Faisal
give a speech regarding a Vietnamese waiter (Ho
Chi Minh) gain an audience at the conference to
make a presentation on behalf of his country.
(Chapter 19: The Winds of
Change - tv-series) |
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With the horrors
of war behind him, Indy returns to the USA to continue
his studies, this time at the University of Chicago. |
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April
1920:
However, he finds that he is more interested in
jazz than his schoolwork. For a short while, he
takes up the soprano saxophone, learns the roots
of jazz and a few lessons about racial problems.
(Chapter
20: Mystery of the Blues - tv-series) |
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May
1920:
"Big Jim" Colosimo (Indy's
boss) is killed in his own restaurant and Indy,
his roommate (a young Elliot Ness) and Ernest Hemingway
work together to solve the case. They discover a
connection to Johnny Torrio (Colosimo's nephew),
Al Capone and organized crime, but are stonewalled
when they are confronted by the unbelievable corruption
in City Hall.
(Chapter
20: Mystery of the Blues - tv-series) |
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June/July
1920:
Indy leaves Chicago for a brief while during summer
break. He goes to New York and gets a job backstage
at a musical comedy. He meets George Gershwin and
travels in bohemian and social circles in New York.
(Chapter 21: Scandal of
the 1920's - tv-series) |
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August
1920:
While working for a Hollywood movie studio, Indy
finds that he is no match for the wily megalomaniac
director Erich von Stroheim when the two lock horns
over the ever increasing budget of Stroheim's film
"Foolish Wives." Though battered by the
film industry, Indy decides to give it one more
chance and goes on a location shoot with legendary
director John Ford. Ford and his cronies, including
aging gunman Wyatt Earp, help him to see the magic
of movies and movie making, and when an actor is
accidentally killed, Indy pitches in to save the
film.
(Chapter 22: Hollywood
Follies - tv-series) |
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