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Benny and Estelle Dickson had a seven-month crime career that took them to multiple states throughout the Midwest. The FBI entered the case after they robbed a couple of federally insured banks in S……続きを見る

Salvatore Sollazzo was a Sicilian jeweler who gained great notoriety as a gambler who fixed NCAA basketball games. Many of the games were played at New York's famed sports venue Madison Square Garde……続きを見る

In October 1935 Martin Krompier was Arthur Flegenheimer aka Dutch Schultz's man Friday on Broadway. On the evening of October 24th boxing promoter Krompier had left a boxing match early to return to……続きを見る

Victor Riesel was a racketeering labor columnist whose syndicated column appeared in U.S. newspapers nationwide. His expose of garment industry racketeering brought him unwanted attention from under……続きを見る

Charles "Charlie Bear" Calise was from a Westchester County, New York mob family. His father was the late Anthony "Teddy Bear" Calise. The Calises ran a policy racket in Yonkers which, in 1965, earn……続きを見る

Jack Rybakoff, a former boxing promoter, was murdered in Manhattan's Lower East Side on July 19, 1947. An ex-convict who'd served time in Sing Sing for kidnapping, he became the third gangland murde……続きを見る

The April 21, 1948 attempted murder of CIO/UAW President Walter Reuther brought about a massive manhunt in the Detroit, Michigan area. The city council and police force worked in tandem with Mayor T……続きを見る

The reasons for the shooting of Jack Giordano have never been fully explained. However, its thought that he withheld money owed for loan sharking or either pressed a usury associate too hard to pay ……続きを見る

Carmine Locascio was in trouble with authorities by December 1940. He was charged with his brother Peter for illegal liquor/bootlegging. Later in his life he was a lynchpin in an international dope ……続きを見る

"Playboy After Dark", which debuted in October 1968, was a revamped edition of a show featuring Hugh Hefner and friends. The earlier show aired in 1959-1960. It lasted a single year on CBS-TV. "Play……続きを見る

Superheroes and Masculinity: Unmasking the Gender Performance of Heroism explores how heteropatriarchal representations of gender are portrayed within superhero comics, film, and television. The con……続きを見る

William "Dummy" Taylor was a career criminal who specialized in theft of furs and jewels. The culmination of his larceny was an attempt to rob the Jeweler's Exchange in Manhattan's Bowery. My e-book……続きを見る

Livro que procura transmitir mais alguns detalhes sobre a bipolaridade , Saúde Mental e Luta Antimanicomial. Roque JR tem sete livros publicados no assunto, dá palestras e é mentaleiro do FGSM - Fór……続きを見る

The burgeoning terrain of Martin Luther King Jr. studies is leading to a new appreciation of his thought and its meaningfulness for the emergence and shaping of the twenty-first-century world. This ……続きを見る

It spells out the discription on the steps to follow in making marriage happy for every one that comes across the book. the book also elaborate in educating marriage as an habit for happiness not sa……続きを見る

William P. Buckner was an affluent New York City businessman who dated movie actress Loretta Young. In 1938 he was indicted for falsely inflating the price of Philippine Railway bonds. The illegal m……続きを見る

Frank Erickson lived in Forest Hills, Queens. In 1950 Erickson, Frank "the Prime Minister" Costello and Joe Adonis were the biggest names in betting in New York City. Mayor Fiorella La Guardia consi……続きを見る

Salvatore Montella was a Colombo family associate who was the right-hand man of underboss John "Sonny" Franzese. Montella's name surfaces in June 1962 when he was arraigned for burglary in Kew Garde……続きを見る

In August 1974 a New York Giants team physician and two bookies were indicted by a Federal Court in New York. The doctor, Anthony Pisani, had been the Giants' team physician for a decade. One of the……続きを見る

Willie Bioff was head of the Theatrical Workers Union which had a membership of 40,000-46,000 in 1941. My e-book looks at his negotiations with film industry titans like Walt and Roy Disney and Nich……続きを見る

In Theology and the Marvel Universe, fourteen contributors examine theological themes and ideas in the comic books, television shows, and films that make up the grand narrative of the Marvel Univers……続きを見る

“A long-lasting marriage is built by two people who believe in -and live by- the solemn promise they made.” - Darlene Schacht The crazy thing about marriage is that most of us enter into this union ……続きを見る

Penge og kærlighed, knægt. Det er de to ting, der virkelig betyder noget. For det er de eneste to ting, der får os til at glemme døden. I nogle minutter, i det mindste. 1910-20’ernes USA: Willie Sut……続きを見る

Nicholas Circella aka Nick Dean was a Chicago hoodlum who is often associated with an extortion of the motion picture industry. Active from 1934-1941 Circella, Willie Bioff and George E. Browne were……続きを見る

In 1959 the Nypenns nudist camp in Pennsylvania was a popular resort for sunbathers and people seeking nude recreation. There was a proposed nudist site in Groton, New York that was blocked by a law……続きを見る

Specialists from Europe and the US investigate the current and changing role of religion in post-communist Russia. Drawing upon Eastern Orthodox, Protestant and Roman Catholic points of view, they e……続きを見る

Trapped in his living room between his gun-toting father and his butcher-knife-wielding mother, eight year-old Howard Lovely stood in horror as his father pulled the trigger. Amazingly, no one died.……続きを見る

In November 1962 Anthony Ficarotta was arrested in a multi-state theft ring for stealing clothes out of cars along the New Jersey Turnpike. On one occasion he and his friends stole a mink coat value……続きを見る

Vito Gurino was a hit man for Murder Inc., the first murder for hire organization to operate nationwide in the United States. Headed by Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, the gang was based in the Brownsville……続きを見る

The Profaci-Gallo mob war of 1961-1962 arose when the Gallo brothers attempted to encroach on lucrative Profaci family rackets. Among the most coveted of these was the policy-numbers racket. Joey Ga……続きを見る