I have returned from watching Captain America: Winter Soldier, which entirely lived up to my (high) expectations and was mega fun. It pitted Captain America against Hydra once more, an organisation with global reach and inexhaustible resources, with the exception of a replacement mask for the Winter Soldier if he happens to misplace his.
I have other thoughts about the movie, but first I wanted to share with you the story of Ned Kelly. Ned Kelly was the last and best-known of Australia's bushrangers. The son of an Irish convict, his family had a long history of run-ins with the law, and the Kelly gang became well-known for bank robberies in the area. His last stand was at the town of Glenrowan in 1880, where they had planned to derail a train of policemen coming to help hunt and capture them. The police were forewarned and instead it turned into a shootout. Ned Kelly was dressed in armour, capable of stopping bullets, as shown here: [link] Nonetheless, the police brought him down, by firing at his unprotected legs. The 19th century Victorian constabulary - smarter tacticians than modern-day Hydra's elite hit squads.
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