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A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire by Amy Butler Greenfield
epub, pdf |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Amy Butler Greenfield [Greenfield, Amy Butler]

FOURTEEN Anderson’s Incredible Folly WITH THIERY DE MENONVILLE’S demise, the French attempt to obtain cochineal collapsed. Yet Thiery’s quixotic quest was not entirely in vain. After his return from Mexico, ...
( Category: Graphic Design December 12,2018 )
30 Illegal Years To The Strip by Bill Friedman
epub |eng | 2018-06-23 | Author:Bill Friedman

CHAPTER 12 THE ACTION MOVED INTO CAJUN COUNTRY COSTELLO FROM YOUTH THROUGH PROHIBITION Frank Costello was born Francesco Castiglia on January 26, 1891 in Cosenza in southwestern Italy. His family ...
( Category: True Crime December 12,2018 )
Lord High Executioner by Howard Engel
epub |eng | | Author:Howard Engel

It was some time after the invention of firearms that they were first used to execute military prisoners such as spies, turncoats, hostages, and deserters. In parts of Asia, criminals ...
( Category: Mystery December 12,2018 )
Unnecessary Roughness by Jose Baez & George Willis
epub |eng | 2018-08-20 | Author:Jose Baez & George Willis

MANY PEOPLE ASK ME: “Do you believe Aaron Hernandez shot Odin Lloyd?” Well, I can tell you Aaron told me he did not. My honest answer, despite the fact that ...
( Category: Death & Grief December 12,2018 )
Unholy Business by Nina Burleigh
epub |eng | | Author:Nina Burleigh

Some non-Catholics were quick to tout the box as evidence against the perpetual virginity of Mary, however this does not follow. The ossuary…does not identify [James] as the son—much less ...
( Category: Middle East December 12,2018 )
The Irish Game by Matthew Hart
epub |eng | 2009-12-11 | Author:Matthew Hart

The Gardners had always intended to show their art to the public, and Isabella opened the doors of Fenway Court on February 23, 1903. Admission was one dollar. While she ...
( Category: Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions December 12,2018 )
The Phillip Island Murder by Vikki Petraitis & Paul Daley
epub |eng | 2018-04-04 | Author:Vikki Petraitis & Paul Daley [Petraitis, Vikki]

Chapter 13 The End of the Statement When Jack McFayden had finished his cup of tea, and given his writing hand a well-deserved rest, he turned his attention once more ...
( Category: Specific Groups December 12,2018 )
Pure Evil by Geoffrey Wansell
epub |eng | 2016-06-08 | Author:Geoffrey Wansell

11 What ‘Life Means Life’ Feels Like Robert Maudsley, Sidney Cooke and Charles Bronson One man who knows exactly what it means to be sentenced to spend the rest of ...
( Category: True Crime December 11,2018 )
The Insanity Defense and the Mad Murderess of Shaker Heights by William L. Tabac
epub |eng | | Author:William L. Tabac

Colby trial judges John Angelotta, Donald Lybarger, and John Manos (Courtesy of the Plain Dealer and Cleveland Public Library) Colby confronts the media (Courtesy of the Plain Dealer and Cleveland ...
( Category: Criminal Law December 11,2018 )
Forgery and Impersonation in Imperial China by Mark McNicholas
epub |eng | 2016-12-10 | Author:Mark McNicholas

SCAMMING THE SYSTEM As the contributions system collected huge amounts of silver, it comes as no surprise that it was subject to various forms of abuse. In the realm of ...
( Category: Legal History December 11,2018 )
A Scandal in Bohemia by Gideon Haigh
epub |eng | | Author:Gideon Haigh

10 BLOOD IN THE LANEWAY ‘They say all the world loves a lover – apply that saying to murder and you have an even more infallible truth.’ – Agatha Christie, ...
( Category: True Crime December 10,2018 )
Kompromat by Jeff Pegues
epub |eng | | Author:Jeff Pegues

Russia, like its Soviet predecessor, has a history of conducting covert influence campaigns focused on US presidential elections that have used intelligence officers, agents, and press placements to disparage candidates ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 10,2018 )
The Rockwell Heist by Bruce Rubenstein
epub |eng | 2013-12-09 | Author:Bruce Rubenstein

12 The tipster who had fingered an underworld figure for the Minneapolis police and the FBI three weeks following the theft practically made a pest of himself thereafter. He contacted ...
( Category: Americas December 10,2018 )
Crimes That Changed Our World by Paul H. Robinson & Sarah M. Robinson
epub |eng | 2018-03-25 | Author:Paul H. Robinson & Sarah M. Robinson [Robinson, Paul H. & Robinson, Sarah M.]

Chapter Fourteen 1981 Reagan Assassination Attempt Insanity Defense The Tragedy At 2:25 p.m. on March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan has just finished speaking to a group of labor leaders ...
( Category: Legal History December 10,2018 )
Evidence of Love by John Bloom
epub |eng | 2016-10-24 | Author:John Bloom

15 Interrogation “I did have an affair,” Allan Gore told Royce Abbott. “Oh?” “With Candy Montgomery.” Chief Abbott was startled, especially since he was hearing such news at 6 A.M., ...
( Category: Specific Groups December 10,2018 )

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