Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

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A classic Wild West confrontation between cowboys and sheriffs, subsequently made famous by books and movies and dubbed ‘Gunfight at the O. ...
Friday, May 15, 2020

Barricading the gaol

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’There is a great deal of excitement in the Town, and the Gaol Authorities fearing violence have barricaded and strengthened the Entrance, a...
Sunday, November 18, 2018

Life at Jonestown

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It was 40 years ago today that over 900 people died at Jonestown in Guyana, having been ordered by their cult leader Jim Jones to partake of...
Friday, January 27, 2017

You look like terrorists

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Forty years ago today, two Chilean friends, Christian and Nene, and myself were minding our own business in the Brazilian city of Curitiba w...
Friday, December 16, 2016

The general emptiness

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‘This life is nomadic, cold, transient, disordered. We are getting used to just hoping for the best. That wheezing accordion underscores the...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Virtuous William Lambarde

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Some 480 years ago today was born William Lambarde, a learned, virtuous, pious justice of the peace. He wrote several books, including one o...
Thursday, January 14, 2016

I’m looking at dying

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Harold Frederick Shipman, one of the most prolific serial killers in modern times, would have turned 70 today had he not committed suicide i...
Thursday, October 8, 2015

Breaking with Burr

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Harman Blennerhassett, an Anglo-Irish aristocrat who emigrated to the US and got caught up in a 19th century land-grabbing conspiracy led by...
Sunday, June 14, 2015

State-created crime

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One Rev. John William Horsley was born 170 years ago today. Although not much remembered, he was a social reformer of great character - as m...