Robert Grey Reynolds
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource
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English
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Joseph Barboza was a hitman and associate for New England Mafia don Raymond Patriarcha and also Henry Tameleo. Barboza was in trouble with the law starting in 1945. In my research I found an article about him breaking out of Concord Reformatory in 1953. He escaped along with several other inmates and headed to Boston with a captive service station attendant. Barboza was privy to information about fixed horse races, NBA basketball games and other illegal...
22) Carmine Galante
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource
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English
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Carmine Galante died a violent death while enjoying a meal at a favorite Italian Restaurant in Brooklyn, New York. My e-book describes the murder of Galante and two others on July 12, 1979. I also look extensively at Galante's criminal career beginning with the murder of anti-Fascist editor, publisher and labor organizer Carlo Tresca, in January 1943. Tresca was shot dead outside his office near 5th Avenue in Manhattan. Hours earlier Carmine Galante...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Walter Gottlieb Groebli was a drifter who was originally from Atlanta, Georgia. His grandparents settled there after immigrating from Switzerland. The 18-year-old Walter was taken in by wealthy Percival Wilcox Whittlesey, who had a luxurious home in Nyack, NY. A disagreement occurred when the youth began to play a pro-Nazi anthem on Whittlesey's phonograph. Whittlesey was pro-British and was the founder of an organization that promoted American aid...
24) Don Carlos Buell
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Don Carlos Buell was a maligned figure in the United States Civil War. He was removed from his command following the Battle of Perryville in October 1862. A Buell Commission lingered for more than a year debating the merits of the general's removal. Even now Civil War buffs debate the issue. Buell maintained that his slowness of action in moving his troops was based on a lack of supplies. Like General Mc Clellan, who commanded the Army of the Potomac...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Grace Roberts was a model and woman of important social circles in Philadelphia almost 100 years ago. Her image was frequently seen on hosiery products throughout America. Her horribly disfigured body was found by police on December 30th clad in her pajamas. She had been murdered inside her lavish apartment. Rather than attempt to solve the crime quickly, authorities and pressmen of Philadelphia were urged by prominent men of the city to delay their...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Joan of Arc came to prominence in the decade after France suffered a crucial defeat to the English at the Battle of Agincourt on October 25, 1415. Her rise coincided with the deep misfortunes the French people were suffering at the hands of the English invading armies. My e-book covers the period from 1424-1429. It is for young readers and gives them a chance to understand that warfare is something that has occurred throughout human history. There...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2012.
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1 online resource
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English
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"Northern Pacific Railway Employees in Fargo North Dakota contains lots of information for genealogical/ancestral researchers. It profiles individual employees, i.e. where they lived in Fargo/Moorhead, MN, their job titles, where they came to Fargo from, i.e. Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Canada, Minnesota, or Europe. Most were of German, Swedish, Polish, Prussian, English, Norwegian, Irish, or Canadian ehtnicity. The eBook includes more than 100 names...
Author
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Juana Bormann was one of the most tormenting and evil of the women who worked guarding female prisoners at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. From camp survivors we know that Bormann used her Alsatian dog to rip the clothes and flesh from the unfortunate victims of her blind wrath. Age 53 when she went on trial at Leuneburg, Germany in September 1945, Juana or Johanna, had been a religious zealot in her former life before World War II...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource
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English
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Maspeth, Queens Crimes was researched from old news accounts of the Prohibition Era of the 1920s and 1930s. Included is the robbery of a candy store, the unsolved murder of a Maspeth bootlegger/housewife, the accidental murder of a contractor/builder by a Maspeth policeman and other somewhat obscure crimes that many local historians may have never read about. My e-book will be equally appealing to true crime fans as well as historians of the Queens...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource
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English
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Continental Airlines was in business for 28 years before it incurred its first airline fatalities. This happened near the border of Iowa and Missouri on the night of May 22, 1962. The plane was flying into a line of thunderstorms and received a warning as it neared its landing at Kansas City Municipal Airport. The airliner came down in bits and pieces before its fuselage crashed into a farm. The Boeing 707 which crashed was the same plane that was...
Author
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Anthony Strollo, also known as Tony Bender and Tough Tony, was a Mafia powerhouse in the Genovese crime family for several decades. His brothers, Dominic and Emillio, were also members of the syndicate. Strollo's primary territory included the New Jersey docks and the Greenwich Village area of lower Manhattan, New York City. Strollo inherited a large amount of power after the careers of many of his mob associates were ended by Federal and U.S. Senate...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Scarlet fever has afflicted mankind since the 1500s. In the United States it appeared in epidemic proportion in New England in the early 18th century. In Boston and New Hampshire whole families became sickened, and sometimes most of their members died. Scarlet fever affects the kidneys and ear membranes particularly. Most often a rash of tiny, pin-sized red bumps forms by the third day on the chest and necks of those infected. It spreads over the...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Carol Doda electrified San Francisco, beginning in the summer of 1964, when she descended from the roof of the Condor Club doing her trademark Swim dance. She also knew the watusi and others so that her topless performances had variety. Doda was the first topless dancer to be publicized widely in the United States. She began a wave of topless and then bottomless performers that rapidly grew in numbers in America. The sensation was not without its...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource
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English
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Damiano Thomas Vonnie Licavoli was a powerful bootlegger in the Prohibition era. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he made his fortune in Detroit before a grand jury investigation forced him to move elsewhere. He relocated to Toledo where he dominated the beer and liquor racket until the end of Prohibition. During this time members of his gang harassed and assassinated their rivals to preserve their predominance. Licavoli ended up serving 37 years in prison...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource
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English
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Vasco De Núñez Balboa is credited with discovering the Pacific Ocean but he might have accomplished even more had not jealousy and treachery intervened. Balboa secretly hid himself in a cask on his voyage to Santa Maria del Darien in what is today the country of Panama. The captain of the ship, Enciso, eventually turned on Vasco De Núñez and related his vituperation to King Ferdinand of Spain. As a result Balboa was executed in 1517 after...
36) Gerhard Mitter Porsche and BMW Formula One, Sports Car Driver and European Hill Climbing Champion
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Gerhard Mitter is not among the most well-known European drivers of his era. However his impact had more to do with his versatility than longevity, which he lacked. The German completely dominated the sport of hill climbing, winning the world championship in three consecutive years from 1966-1968. A more prominent name among drivers, Ludovico Scarfiotti, was killed prior to the competition stage of the hill climbing near Berchtesgaden, West Germany...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource
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English
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Joe Adonis, aka Joe Doto, was involved with a number of hoodlums in the New York fur industry, men who were in trouble with the police and sought a means of alleviating this. On one occasion they shook down wealthy Meyer Shapiro a Manhattan Beach resident who was extorted in a confidence game at a hideout the Adonis' group maintained in Brooklyn. My e-book is a short profile of the Lucciano crime family as it operated in New York City in 1932. --Provided...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource
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English
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Johnny Torrio is sometimes seen as a footnote to Al Capone who is most often associated with the heyday of Chicago criminal activity. Yet it was Torrio who moved from Italy to New York to Chicago who established the first empire in Chicago. At the time there were two rival gangs in the windy city, They dealt in gambling, prostitution, extortion, liquor running, et cetera The O'Banion gang was a bitter rival of first Torrio and later Al Capone. --Provided...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource
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English
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The crash of a Lockheed Electra L-188C near Tell City, Indiana was the third major disaster involving the Electras to occur within a year's time. The Electra was a propeller plane that possessed the speed of a jet and had considerable power. The Tell City crash was pivotal for after this the FAA reduced its flying speed from 400 mph while investigations were carried out regarding the problems that caused the crashes. 63 persons died on the L-188C...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Nell Stewart was a farmer's daughter from Steele, Alabama. She left a job as a waitress and trained under wrestling veteran Gladys Kill-em Gillem. Nell entered professional wrestling in the late 1940s. The sport was dominated by all-time greats like Mildred Burke, Dot Dotson, Mae Young, and June Byers. Nell was a fresh face and she was a beauty also, with enticing blonde hair and a curvy shape. Her most productive and successful years were between...