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- 2171: My Secret Confessions From The Grave: Al Capone
- ... marked man by this time, and after several attempts on my life from a rival gang, I struck back with the St. Valentines Day Massacre on February 14, 1929. It may be the greatest violence that ever occurred during the Chicago gang era. Seven members of Bugsy Morans mob were killed with machine-guns by my mob posing as police officers, smart idea huh. The massacre was credited to ...
- 2172: Hitler's Legacy Still Haunts The World
- ... secret police, the Gestapo. The Gestapos job was to seek out Jews or any opposition to Hitler and his views. Hitler took fascism to another level creating nazism, a government based on racism and violence. In 1939 Germany invaded Poland. This started a domino effect. Great Britain declared war when Germany decided to attack France after Poland. Gradually nearly every country in Europe was now involved in the war. Then ...
- 2173: The Autobiography of Malcom X
- ... aim. He worked all the time for his leader and hardly slept. Malcolm X made an astonishing change, he gave up all his vices and became an extremely virtuous man. But he did neither condemn violence, nor did he support integration. He even attacked the more liberal Afro-American leaders. El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz: Malcolm was deeply hurt when Elijah Muhammad dismissed him. But he did not give up, he ...
- 2174: Biography of Edgar Allen Poe
- ... life at the University of Virginia in 1826 was very chaotic. In one student riot the students threw bottles and bricks at the professors. In Poe's letters to John Allen he often talked of violence on campus. He once wrote of how a student was struck on the head with a stone and then pulled out a gun and killed his attacker(Moldavia). By the end of the year Poe ...
- 2175: Charles Manson: Orgins of a Madman
- ... scribbled on the walls and the refrigerator in the victims' blood. These brutal slayings demonstrate the evil in Manson's warped mind. He was able to convince normal human beings to commit unspeakable acts of violence the likes of which the world had never seen. In a sense, Manson molded his followers' beliefs and values to represent his own. He had once again ordered his "Family" members to slay innocent people ...
- 2176: Bill Clinton and His Many Problems
- ... policy has been sharpened during Clintons presidential period. This is especially a problem for the blacks that live in the high-unemployment-ghettos. This brings us to another big problem in the American society; the violence. In US the control with weapons is very loose, and everybody can walk into a gunshop and buy their own weapon. Because of that there are a lot of guns, and the criminals are defiantly ...
- 2177: Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar
- ... believed in astrology himself but probably feared a possible conspiracy inspired by horoscopes. Tiberius established a central camp for the Praetorian guard in Rome so the military could be quickly called to put down civilian violence. Civilian riots were common because of the large population of unemployed that were provided for by the public dole. Lucius Aelius Sejanus was in charge of these troops and that gave him an enormous amount ...
- 2178: The Political Career of Richard Nixon
- ... Vietnamese conflict. The policy was adopted to prevent interference with peace negotiations begun in May between government representatives from the United States and from North Vietnam in Paris, France. Nixon emphasized his determination to curb violence in the cities. At the same time he proposed a program of increased "black capitalism" and of tax incentives for private investors locating in the cities. On November 5, 1968, Nixon's long and loyal ...
- 2179: Important People in History
- ... known for his work on imprinting in birds. He discovered that a duckling would adopt as a parent, the first moving thing that they saw after hatching from the egg. He also studied aggression and violence. However, he believed that aggression could be channelled into more constructive behaviour. Malinowski, Bronislaw - Social Anthropologist (1884 - 1942) Malinowski worked with the people of New Guinea and the nearby Trobriand Islands in the South Pacific ...
- 2180: Biography of Edgar Allen Poe
- ... escape the Allen household if for no other reason. The student life of the University was more social than academic. The young men drank too much, gambled too much, fought for the sheer enjoyment of violence, and rampaged over the campus at all hours. This was the worst possible environment for young Poe with his emotionally unstable temperament. He was unusually susceptible to alcohol; one mild drink sent him into a ...
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