John wilkes booth
John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American stage actor who, as part of a conspiracy plot, assassinated Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. Lincoln died the next day from the single gunshot wound to the back of the head, becoming the first American president to be assassinated.
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Kidd Chris
CBS Radio drops morning host Kidd Chris over racist song
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - CBS Corp. fired a radio host and a radio station’s program director over a racist song that was performed on the air in March.
The song played on WYSP-FM during host Kidd Chris’ morning show was “highly offensive and completely inappropriate for broadcast on our airwaves,” CBS Radio spokeswoman Karen Mateo said in a statement Friday. “When senior management of the station learned that it had been played, they took immediate steps to prevent it from ever appearing on the station again.”
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Victor Nightingale
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Misogynist
Misogyny (pronounced /mɪˈsɒʤɪni/) is hatred or strong prejudice against women; an antonym of philogyny. Those holding misogynistic beliefs can be of either sex. Although misogyny is sometimes confused with misanthropy, the terms are not interchangeable, for the latter refers more generally to the hatred of humanity. A concept related to misogyny is gynophobia, the fear of women, but not necessarily hatred of them. The obsolete Latin language term horror feminae (literally “fear of women) may be seen used as a synonym both for misogyny and gynophobia.
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Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757 - July 12, 1804) was the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, lawyer, Founding Father, American politician, leading statesman, financier, and political theorist. One of America’s first constitutional lawyers, he was a leader in calling the Philadelphia Convention in 1787. He was one of the two chief authors of the anonymous Federalist Papers, the most cited contemporary interpretation of intent for the United States Constitution.
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Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus (bt. August and October 1451 – May 20, 1506) was a navigator, colonizer, and explorer who was instrumental in Spanish colonization of the Americas. Though not the first to reach the Americas from Europe (the Vikings had reached Canada many years earlier, led by Leif Ericsson), Columbus’ voyages led to general European awareness of the hemisphere and the successful establishment of European cultures in the New World. Historical consensus claims that he was born in Genoa, although other minor theories exist. The name Christopher Columbus is the Anglicization of the Latin Christophorus Columbus. Also well known are his name’s rendering in modern Italian as Cristoforo Colombo, in Portuguese as Cristóvão Colombo (formerly Christovam Colom), and in Spanish as Cristóbal Colón.
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New England Historic Genealogical Society
The New England Historic Genealogical Society, also known as NEHGS, is the oldest and largest genealogical society in the United States, founded in 1845. Today it has over 20,000 members worldwide. The Society’s headquarters and library are located in Boston, Massachusetts at 101 Newbury Street.
The Society publishes the New England Ancestors magazine and a weekly e-newsletter as well as its flagship journal, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. The Society’s library catalog, which is available online, lists more than 200,000 genealogy books and other resources. The R. Stanton Avery Special Collections feature over two million manuscript items ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, covering New England and other regions. The Society maintains a very large web site with more than 100 million names in its databases, the largest such online genealogy database of any genealogy society.
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corned beef
The History and Irish Tradition of Corned Beef
There are few things better than simmering corned beef with carrots, onions, potatoes and spices.
According to the US department of Agriculture Originally “Corned Beef and Cabbage” was a traditional dish served for Easter Sunday dinner in rural Ireland. The beef, because there was no refrigeration at that time was salted or brined during the winter to preserve it, It was then eaten after the long, meatless Lenten fast.
However other Irish people feel that Corned Beef and cabbage is about as Irish as Spaghetti and meatballs. That beef was a real delicacy usually served only to the kings.
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Maniac Latin Disciples
In 1998, federal authorities arrested several top-ranking members of the Maniac Latin Disciples on drug charges. The assumed leader of the drug ring, Thomas “Outlaw” Ross, was among this group. The drug ring conspired and spanned throughout the entire Bucktown community on Chicago’s Northwest side. These arrest also played a significant role in the crippling of the organizations leadership throughout other communities. After the Maniac Latin Disciples were able to rebuild a familar leadership structure, the F.B.I. conducted an investigation and arrested another slew of top-ranking Maniac Latin Disciples on drug conspiracy charges in 2004. Among the top MLD’s arrested were Fidel “Fiddle” Hernandez and Antonio “Bird” Perez. The two men were acting as the street leaders for the organization at the time of their arrest. Although even today the Maniac Latin Disciples are one of the largest and dominant street gangs in Chicago, the organization has experienced several internal feuds and leadership problems over the years. Many branches of the MLD’s have broken away from Fernie’s control and some sections refuse to settle their conflicts peacefully with eachother. Today is suspected that the Maniac Latin Disciples street gang is divided into three large factions. The Maniac Latin Disciples have been an extremely violent street gang and continue to exercise a presence in the Humboldt Park, Hermosa, Logan Square, Avondale, West Town, and Gage Park communities along with several Chicagoland suburbs including Cicero. The Maniac Latin Disciples have virtually no allies on the streets outside of those allied to the Maniac Family. The Maniac Latin Disciples principle rivals have consisted of the Latin Kings, Spanish Cobras, Simon City Royals, Insane Popes, Orchestra Albany, Latin Lovers, Spanish Lords, Latin Jivers, Insane Dragons, Insane Deuces, Four Corner Hustlers, Latin Pachucos, Insane Unknowns, Latin Eagles, Ashland Vikings, Harrison Gents, Satan Disciples, Two-Two Boys, and Milwaukee Kings street gang’s including on-and-off again feuds with the Imperial Gangsters street gang. The gangs primary criminal involvement has consisted of graffiti, drug trafficking, assault, armed robbery, auto theft, kidnapping, extortion, shootings, and murder.
via chicagomobs.org
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