| Wampanoag The Wampanoag (; Wôpanâak in the Wampanoag language; alternate spellings Wompanoag or Wampanig) are a Native American nation which currently consists of five tribes. Wampanoag
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| Louis Buchalter Louis "Lepke" Buchalter (6 February 1897 Jewish-American mobster of the 1930s in the USA. He is the only major mob boss to have been executed by state or federal authorities. Louis_Buchalter
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| Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS Church) is one of the largest Mormon fundamentalist denominations and one of United States' largest practitioners of plural marriage. The FLDS Church emerged in the early twentieth century when its founding members left The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The split occurred largely because of the LDS Church's renunciation of polygamy and its decision to excommunicate practitioners of plural marriage. Fundamentalist_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter_Day_Saints
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| Bernard Ebbers Bernard John "Bernie" Ebbers (born August 27, 1941 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian-born businessman. He co-founded the telecommunications company WorldCom and is a former chief executive officer of that company. In 2005, he was convicted of fraud and conspiracy in the largest (to date) accounting scandal in United States history, as a result of WorldCom's false financial reporting, and subsequent US$11-billion loss to investors. Bernard_Ebbers
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| Abe Reles Abe "Kid Twist" Reles (1906 hit man for Murder, Inc., the enforcement contractor for the National Crime Syndicate. Reles later turned government witness and sent several members of Murder, Inc. to the electric chair. He was believed to have been a party to thirty murders, and was convicted of none of them. Abe_Reles
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| 2000 millennium attack plots Year 2000 attack plots were terrorist attacks planned to occur on or near January 1, 2000Jordan, the bombing of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), and the bombing of the USS The Sullivans. The first two plots were foiled by law enforcement agencies; the third was aborted after a mistake occurred. While the various attacks were planned to occur around the same date, there is no evidence that the three plots were coordinated in any way. 2000_millennium_attack_plots
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| Islam in the United States Islam in the United States started in the early 16th century, with Estevánico of Azamor being the first Muslim to enter the historical record in North America.Once very small, the Muslim population of the US increased greatly in the twentieth century, with much of the growth driven by rising immigration and widespread conversion. In 2005, more people from Islamic countries became legal permanent United States residents — nearly 96,000 — than in any year in the previous two decades. Islam_in_the_United_States
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| Fugitive fugitive is a person who is fleeing from custody, whether it be from private slavery, a government arrest, government or non-government questioning, vigilante violence, or outraged private individuals. As a verbal metaphor and psychological concept, one might also be described as a "fugitive from oneself". Finally, the literary sense of "fugitive" includes the meaning of simply "fleeing". Fugitive
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| Southern California Talk:Southern_California
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| Arm User_talk:Arm
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| Russian Mafia The Russian Mafia (, Russkaya mafiya), Red Mob (Красная мафия, Krasnaya mafiya) or Bratva na peeski (Братва; slang for "brotherhood", which applies to all gangs, including rivals) — often transliterated as Mafya or Mafiya — are names designating a diverse group of organized crime syndicates originating in the former Soviet Union (Russia and the CIS). Since the 1991 fall of the USSR, these groups have amassed considerable worldwide power and influence. Russian_Mafia
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| William J. Jefferson William Jennings "Dollar Bill" Jefferson (born March 14, 1947) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Louisiana. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for nine terms from 1991 to 2009. He represented William_J._Jefferson
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| Imad Mughniyah Imad_Mughniyah
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| Albert Gore, Sr. Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Sr. (December 26, 1907 – December 5, 1998) was an American politician, serving as a U.S. Representative and a U.S. Senator for the Democratic Party from Tennessee.Gore had two children, Nancy LaFon Gore, born in 1938, who died of lung cancer in 1984, and Albert Gore Jr., who served as Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Albert_Gore,_Sr.
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| Criminal record A criminal record is a record of a person's criminal history, generally used by potential employers, lenders etc. to assess his or her trustworthiness. The information included in a criminal record varies between countries and even between jurisdictions within a country. Criminal_record
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| Rod Blagojevich Rod_Blagojevich
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| Filiberto Ojeda Ríos Filiberto Ojeda Ríos (April 26, 1933 September 23, 2005) was the "commander in chief" ("Responsable General") of the Boricua Popular Army (Ejército Popular Boricua ), a clandestine paramilitary organization, described by United States law enforcement agencies as a terrorist organization, based on the island and commonwealth of Puerto Rico, with branches in the mainland United States and in other countries. Filiberto_Ojeda_Ríos
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| Art theft Art theft is the theft of art. This is usually done for the purpose of resale or ransom; occasionally thieves are also commissioned by dedicated private collectors. Stolen art is also often used between criminals in an underworld banking system as collateral for drug and weapons deals, or to barter for those items. Art_theft
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| Phishing phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Communications purporting to be from popular social web sites, auction sites, online payment processors or IT Administrators are commonly used to lure the unsuspecting public. Phishing is typically carried out Phishing
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| Emmett Till Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till (July 25, 1941 August 28, 1955) was an African American boy from Chicago, Illinois, who was murdered at the age of 14 in Money, Mississippi, a small town in the state's Delta region, for flirting with a white woman. The murder of Emmett Till was noted as one of the leading events that motivated the nascent American Civil Rights Movement. Emmett_Till
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| Ron Suskind Ron Suskind (born November 20, 1959 in Kingston, New York) is a Pulitzer Prize winning American journalist and best-selling author. He was the senior national affairs writer for The Wall Street Journal from 1993 to 2000 and has published four books, A Hope in the Unseen, The Price of Loyalty, The One Percent Doctrine and The Way of the World. Ron_Suskind
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| Northeast (United States) The Northeastern United States (sometimes called simply the Northeast) is a region of the United States. According to the definition used by the United States Census Bureau, the Northeast region consists of nine statesNew England states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut; and the Mid-Atlantic States of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Major cities in this area include New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, and Boston. Northeast_(United_States)
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| California Highway Patrol California_Highway_Patrol
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| September 11 attacks Talk:September_11_attacks
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| Victor Manuel Gerena Victor Manuel Gerena (born June 24, 1958) is an American linked by the Federal Bureau of Investigation with the armed robbery of a Wells Fargo armored car facility, in connection with the Los Macheteros group. On May 14, 1984, he became the 386th fugitive to be placed on the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. Victor_Manuel_Gerena
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| Saif al-Adel An Egyptian by birth, Saif_al-Adel
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| Hate group A hate group is an organized group or movement that advocates physical or verbal aggression toward or refusal to interact with persons on the basis of those persons' possession and/or exhibition of a certain characteristic. Many hate groups espouse or rhetorically appeal to the proposition that persons exhibiting the characteristic in question are members of a group of persons exhibiting that characteristic, regardless of whether that group's existence, boundaries, and set of members are self-proclaimed or are instead merely alleged by the hate group to possess an independent existence arising from conceptual distinctions that the hate group draws. Hate_group
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| Questioned document examination Questioned document examination (QDE) is the forensic science discipline pertaining to documents that are (or may be) in dispute in a court of law. The primary purpose of questioned/forensic document examination is to answer questions about a disputed document using a variety of scientific processes and methods. Questioned_document_examination
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| Black Dahlia Elizabeth Short (July 29, 1924 – ca. January 15, 1947) was an American woman who was the victim of a gruesome and much-publicized murder. Nicknamed the Black Dahlia, Short was found mutilated, with her body severed, on January 15, 1947 in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California. The murder, which remains unsolved, has been the source of widespread speculation as well as several books and film adaptations. Black_Dahlia
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| Timothy McVeigh/Archive 1 Talk:Timothy_McVeigh/Archive_1
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| Abdul Rahman Yasin Abdul Rahman Yasin () (born ) helped make the bombs used in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing attack. Yasin is of Iraqi heritage and grew up in Baghdad. He has been characterized in the American media as "the only participant in the first attempt to blow up the World Trade Center in 1993 who was never caught." Abdul_Rahman_Yasin
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| Explosive belt An explosive belt (also called suicide belt, Bomberpilot Jacket, suicide vest) is a vest packed with explosives and armed with a detonator, worn by suicide bombers. Explosive belts are usually packed with nails, screws, bolts, and other objects that serve as shrapnel to maximize the number of casualties in the explosion. Explosive_belt
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| Donald Segretti Donald Henry Segretti (born September 17, 1941 in San Marino, California) was a political operative for the Committee to Re-elect the President (Nixon) during the 1970s. Segretti was hired by friend Dwight L. Chapin to run a campaign of dirty tricks (which he dubbed "ratfucking") against the Democrats; his work was paid by Herb Kalmbach, Nixon's lawyer, from presidential campaign re-election funds gathered before an April 7, 1972, law required that contributors be identified. Donald_Segretti
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| Gun politics in the United Kingdom Gun politics in the United Kingdom generally places its main considerations on how best to ensure public safety and how deaths involving firearms can most effectively be prevented. Unlike in the United States, there is practically no modern organised "right to keep and bear arms" lobby in the United Kingdom, and little debate between pro-gun control and pro-gun ownership advocates. These two situations create what is believed to be some of the strictest gun legislation in the world. Gun_politics_in_the_United_Kingdom
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| Gun politics in the United States Gun politics in the United States, incorporating the political aspects of gun politics, and firearms rights, has long been among the most controversial and intractable issues in American politics. For the last several decades, this debate has been characterized by stalemate between debate on an individual's right to firearms under the Constitution and the duty of government to prevent crime and maintain order. Gun_politics_in_the_United_States
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| Gun politics in Canada Talk:Gun_politics_in_Canada
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| Pan Am Flight 73 Pan Am Flight 73, a Pan American World Airways Boeing 747-121, was hijacked on September 5, 1986, by four armed men of the Abu Nidal Organization. The aircraft, with 360 on board, had just arrived from Sahar International Airport in Bombay, India and was preparing to depart Quaid-e-Azam International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan for Frankfurt Airport in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany, ultimately continuing on to John F. Pan_Am_Flight_73
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| Electroshock weapon An electroshock weapon is an incapacitant weapon used for subduing a person by administering electric shock aimed at disrupting superficial muscle functions. One type is a conductive energy device (CED), an electroshock gun popularly known by the brand name "Taser", which fires projectiles that administer the shock through a thin, flexible wire. Other electroshock weapons such as stun guns, stun batons, and electroshock belts administer an electric shock by direct contact. Electroshock_weapon
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| Communist Party USA The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) is a Marxist-Leninist political party in the United States. communist party in the country, and played a prominent role in the U.S. labor movement from the 1920s through the 1940s, founding most of the country's major industrial unions (which would later implement the Smith Act) and pursuing intense anti-racist activity in workplaces and city communities throughout this first part of its existence. Communist_Party_USA
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| L. Patrick Gray Louis Patrick Gray III (July 18, 1916 – July 6, 2005) was acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from May 2, 1972 to April 27, 1973. During this time, the FBI was in charge of the initial investigation into the burglaries that sparked the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to the resignation of President Nixon. L._Patrick_Gray
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| Alas Chiricanas Flight 00901 Alas Chiricanas Flight 00901, registry HP-1202AC, was an Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante aircraft which exploded shortly after departing Colón, Panama for Panama City on July 19, 1994. All 21 on board, including 12 Jews, were killed in the bombing. Both Panamanian and American authorities consider the bombing an unsolved crime and an act of terrorism. Alas_Chiricanas_Flight_00901
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| Louis Buchalter Talk:Louis_Buchalter
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| Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher Vilyam (Willie) Genrikhovich (August) Fisher (Вильям Генрихович Фишер) (July 11, 1903–November 15, 1971) was a noted Soviet intelligence officer. He is generally better known by the alias Rudolf Abel, which he adopted on his arrest. Fischer; his patronymic is sometimes less exactly transliterated as Genrikovich. Vilyam_Genrikhovich_Fisher
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| Hate group Talk:Hate_group
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| Pine Ridge Indian Reservation The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (Oglala Oyanke in Lakota, also called Pine Ridge Agency) is an Oglala Sioux Native American reservation located in the U.S. state of South Dakota. Pine Ridge was established in the southwest corner of South Dakota on the Nebraska border and consists of 8,984.306 km² (3,468.86 sq mi) of land area, the eighth-largest reservation in the United States, larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined. Pine_Ridge_Indian_Reservation
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| Willie Sutton William "Willie" Sutton (June 30, 1901 - November 2, 1980) was a prolific U.S. bank robber. For his talent at executing robberies in disguises, he gained two nicknames, "Willie the Actor" and "Slick Willie." When not disguised, Sutton was an immaculate dresser. Willie_Sutton
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| Suicide by cop Suicide by cop is a suicide method in which a person deliberately acts in a threatening way, with the goal of provoking a lethal response from a law enforcement officer, such as being shot to death.While the phrase is colloquial ("cop" being slang for police officer) and primarily used in the United States media, it has become the most popular name for the phenomenon. Suicide_by_cop
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| Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah Saudi Arabia, Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah () (born August 4, 1975) is an alleged member of al-Qaeda, who grew up in the United States and worked as a school teacher. Adnan_Gulshair_el_Shukrijumah
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| Atlanta murders of 1979-1981 Atlanta child murders, known locally simply as the "missing and murdered children case", were a series of murders committed in Atlanta, Georgia, United States from the summer of 1979 until the spring of 1981. Over the two year period, a minimum of twenty-nine black children, adolescents and adults were killed. Atlanta_murders_of_1979-1981
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| TWA Flight 847 TWA_Flight_847
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