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(GURREN LAGANN) 2007

One of my favorite top 10 mecha anime series despite it's short run compared to other series like Gundam and it's decades long pedigree. This series caught me by surprise and never disappointed when it released in america.

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Iron Horse Gunsmoke, paperback cover by Victor Prezio, 1965

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Dallol, 2018

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"The district recreation club was the social center for the slum boys what the Y. M. C. A. was to their fellows at a slightly higher level of the social structure. At the age of fourteen, Williams was as tall and strong as most boys of sixteen or eighteen; and because of his fistic powers and general toughness was soon on terms of intimacy with members of the notorious Tanner Smith mob, which was then staging its last fight for control of the district (they lost out to the equally notorious Madden mob, which still controls that and other districts of the city). With other members of the mob, Williams took part in the various gangster activities; robbing freight cars, wharves, warehouses; exacting financial tributes from local store owners whom they terrorized with threats of bombing and other atrocities; but mainly in voting illegally and terrorizing non-Tammany voters on election day; and at other times terrorizing strikers or their employers (whichever side paid the most), and fighting with and raiding the headquarters of the Madden mob. Williams proved a valuable recruit and was soon as dangerous and skillful with a knife, club, or gun as he was with his clever fists.

Gradually he began going in with other gangsters for the more remunerative crimes (pay-roll robberies, safe-cracking, hold-ups, and the like); and before he was eighteen Williams was "keeping" a girl in a Broadway apartment and getting initiated into the night life of the city. His mother and sisters remained at the old home on West 49th Street, but Williams did not neglect them. He had long ago dropped even the pretence of legitimate work; but he contributed regularly and generously to the support of his mother and sisters and visited them almost daily.

Before he was twenty, Williams had been arrested a dozen times as a suspect in the various gangster killings and other activities of the city; but never did he serve a day in prison after appearing in court. The usual procedure (which the gangsters themselves preferred to formal arraignment and trial) was as follows: after a killing or robbery, the detectives would arrest and bring to headquarters any gangsters whom they could find, subject them to an intensive third degree (often beating them unmercifully), and then turn them loose when the beatings had failed to elicit evidence connecting them with the crime in question.

This was all a part of the regular routine of Williams's life; and while he took it as a matter of course, he had seen so much of corruption among detectives, district attorneys, and even judges that he came to have a strong hatred for representatives of law and order. Wise to the ways of the under-world, a shrewd and clever criminal who never worked except after laying carefully-thought-out plans, it was not until Williams tried to operate in a strange city, with gangsters he did not know, that he got into serious trouble.

In 1918, at the age of twenty, he was asked to come to Boston with three other gangsters to steal the pay roll of a large corporation. It was to be the Christmas pay roll, estimated at $60,000. Through some carelessness of the local tipsters, the information was inaccurate; so that Williams got only a comparatively small pay roll of $15,000, in the seizing of which he shot an armed guard who attempted to draw his gun. Because of the shooting (although the guard did not die for two years) and because of the prestige of the corporation, there was a great hue and cry about the crime. One of the Boston gangsters was arrested on suspicion.

Fearing a long prison term for himself, he implicated Williams and three other men. In spite of this, it is doubtful that Williams could have been convicted. The books of a New York firm of longshoremen showed that Williams and his pals had been working in New York on the day of the robbery! Thus did Williams plan his crimes before he went to work. But the man who had implicated him was persuaded to turn state's evidence; so, in spite of the efforts of a former district attorney, who had been paid a retainer of $3,000 to "fix" the case, Williams and his pals were given ten to fifteen-year terms in the state prison (the crooked ex-district attorney, by the way, was later disbarred and sent to prison at the time when two other district attorneys were disbarred and removed from office). The informer, as it happens, was killed within a few months.

Williams, as I came to know him in the prison, was in many ways a fine character. He was entirely reliable and honest with his friends, deceitful and treacherous with his enemies, and utterly without fear. He would never steal or harm poor people; he would select his victims solely from among the moneyed classes. From one point of view I have always found certain gangsters to be, on the whole, the very highest type of criminal. Although there are many hangers-on of a much lower grade in gang circles, the real gangster is in many ways a fellow who lives strictly up to a stern though predatory code of his own. I liked Williams, personally, better than any other criminal I have ever known.

But he was definitely antisocial in his attitude toward law and order and reformation. While he would admit the theoretical necessity of laws and policemen, he had seen so much of corruption in the ranks of law-enforcement officials that he knew himself to be no worse than many of these, and far better than some. He took the cynical attitude. "What the hell," he would say. "Everybody's out for the money. Get it, long as you don't have to take it from some poor bastard that can't afford to lose it. But get it. Once you've got it, nobody cares ---- where you got it."

When he left prison, after serving a little more than nine years, he merely became more cautious, going in for the bootleg and night-club racketeering which had developed during his years in prison. I met him in New York in the autumn of 1931. We were discussing the state of affairs in regard to unemployment and the slackness in racketeering profits. "It's pretty tough," said Williams. "I've got my apartment and my mother's home to keep up. My two sisters are married and their husbands haven't had work for months. There's not much money in the rackets, the way things are nowadays." I asked him, in view of this, how he was able to keep up his own establishment and his mother's and also help his sisters keep alive during the current depression.

"There's only one thing to do," said Williams. "I'm doing it, and so is almost every one I know. Grab a gun and go out and steal!" In his various attitudes and general character, Williams was typical of his kind of criminal.

- Victor F. Nelson, Prison Days and Nights. Second edition. With an introduction by Abraham Myerson, M.D. Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co., 1936. p. 85-88.

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Beheaded gunmen and fishermen displayed in Hanoi, northern Vietnam

French vintage postcard

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'The Watchers'. Eric Bowman.

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Happy Birthday Patrick 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

July 13,1940

Buon Compleanno 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

13 Luglio 1940

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Gunmen kill one, abduct two in Nasarawa http://dlvr.it/TCRgKJ

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At least 22 people were slain after having their IDs examined in Pakistan

At least 22 people were slain after having their IDs examined in Pakistan #Balochistan #BLA #gunmen #highwayattack

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Gunmen Abduct Two Journalists, Family Members In Kaduna

Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted two journalists  in Danhonu community in Millennium City, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State.  The victims,  Abdulgafar Alabelewe of the Nation Newspaper and AbdulRaheem Aodu of Blueprint Newspaper, were abducted at their homes, along with their wives and children on Saturday night. Alabelewe is the current chairman of the Correspondents…

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Album Review: Orden Ogan - The Order Of Fear (Reigning Phoenix Music)

Needing no introduction, power metal leaders, Orden Ogan, are back with their 7th studio album, The Order of Fear, set for release on the 5th of July via Reigning Phoenix Music. Orden Ogan is a standout in the power metal genre and is a crucial part of the international metal scene. Since their debut album, Vale, was released in 2008, the band has risen to undisputed greatness. With their…

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29-5-2024: - "Get down! Come in, 2-9-4. We are being chased by gunmen in black sedan. I'm heading south for Highway 2. Arrange usual reception, please" Aki (Akiko Wakabayashi) in "You only live twice" (1967), a film by Lewis Gilbert 

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बलूचिस्तान के ग्वादर बंदरगाह में घुसे बंदूकधारियों ने की गोलीबारी, दो हमलावरों की मौत

बलूचिस्तान के ग्वादर बंदरगाह में घुसे बंदूकधारियों ने की गोलीबारी, दो हमलावरों की मौत

Pakistan News: बलूचिस्तान में ग्वादर बंदरगाह अज्ञात हमलावरों ने जबरदस्त गोलीबारी की है. पाकिस्तानी मीडिया रिपोर्ट्स के मुताबिक, बंदूकों और विस्फोटकों से लैस अज्ञात हमलावर अचानक से पाकिस्तान में ग्वादर पोर्ट अथॉरिटी (जीपीए) परिसर घुस गए और फिर अंधाधुंध फायरिंग शुरू कर दी है. कथित तौर पर हमलावर पोर्ट के अंदर स्थित इमारत में घुस गए हैं. स्थानीय सुरक्षाकर्मियों ने इलाके की घेराबंदी कर जवाबी…

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“WOMAN POINTS GUN AT HOLD-UP MEN,” Montreal Gazette. January 6, 1933. Page 9. ---- Seizes Rifle While Robbers Are Pushing Husband Into Rear ---- Faced with a woman who pointed a rifle at them while her husband in the rear lane shouted for the police, two gunmen who attempted to hold up the dry goods store of Michel Dasash, 278 Mount Royal avenue east, at 10.30 o'clock last night, were scared away,

The woman and her husband were in tho store when two young men entered. One of them produced a a revolver and ordered Mr. and Mrs. Dasash to hold up their hands. They obeyed and the gunmen forced Dasash to the rear room of the store, where a door leads to a lane. Dasash opened tho door and rushed out shouting for the police.

In the meantime the gunmen returned to the store and walked to tho cash wicket and ordered Mrs. Dasash to hand over the money in the till. Instead she presented a rifle and the surprised intruders turned and fled without gaining any booty. 

Later Mr. and Mrs. Dasash gave vague descriptions of the two men to Sergeant Detectives Coulombe and Bourdon, declaring they were young.

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Gunmen Abduct UNTH’s Senior Matron In Enugu

Gunmen have kidnapped a senior matron serving with the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH) in Ituku-Ozalla in Enugu on Tuesday. Augustine Duru, chairman of the Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria (MDCAN) UNTH chapter, confirmed the incident to journalists in Enugu. Mr Duru said the senior matron (name withheld due to security reasons) was kidnapped in the same spot a…

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Gunmen in military uniform kill woman, abduct seven travellers on Lagos-Ibadan highway

Gunmen dressed in military uniform allegedly killed one person and kidnapped seven travellers along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. It was gathered that the incident occurred on Monday, December 11, 2023, along the Fidiwo axis of the highway.  A source who does not want his name in print told Punch Online that the vehicle conveying the victims was accosted by the armed men who fired sporadically,…