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John "Sonny" Franzese was a rising star in the Profaci-Magliocco/Colombo family crime organization. Born in Naples, Sonny was raised by his bakery owner father in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn. By 1965 he was the fastest ascending Cosa Nostra leader in the underworld. A Newsday article...

Angelo Amico was a significant organized crime boss in Rochester and western New York during the mid 20th century and after. One newspaper article described him as part of the "new leadership" among mobsters. In one of his trials he was indicted for extorting gambling revenue from sixteen...

John "Poppa John" Priziola was a lynchpin Mafioso in the annals of Detroit, Michigan crime. He was notorious as a receiver of narcotics for a heroin smuggling syndicate that thrived in the mid twentieth century. His crimes and illicit activities were a focus of the McClellan U.S. Senate...

Deux stars que tout opposait et qui s'engagèrent, corps et âme, dans la passion comme dans le conflit. Certaines histoires dépassent de loin la fiction et semblent plus grandes que la vie même. Il en va ainsi de celle que vécurent Jean Gabin et Marlene Dietrich, ce couple mythique du septième...

Andy Warhol was shot by a radical feminist at the studio he regularly called The Factory. Near Union Square the date was June 3, 1968. Warhol was busy opening his mail when the woman walked in dressed in a trench coat. She had a loaded weapon in one of its pockets. As usual the place was bustling...

The Gambino and Bonanno crime families struggled over the mozzarella cheese business in Pennsylvania, South New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania. An FBI sting operation in Buffalo, New York began the unraveling of a Gambino family operation that smuggled heroin into the United States from Milan,...

We’re looking in all the wrong ways for intelligent life in space, but, what if we found it? Would they be friendly? Would they give us all the magic they have learned to perform? Would they enrich our lives? Even if they just said hello and let’s be friends, what would be the natural outcome...

An American Airlines transcontinental flight crashed into the Mississippi River near midnight on February 10, 1944. The cause of the crash has never been entirely explained. The Civil Aeronautics Board promised additional investigation into the tragedy but never went through with it. The plane had...

Proverbs teaching on avoiding temptation, listening to and heeding wisdom or death will prevail.Solomon's teaching on maintaining a pure marriage, and saving your soul from eternal damnation.

The setting is in the mid 1950s where a successful business man fell on hard times due to his wife not managing their finances with wisdom. Upon her death, the children insisted on an expensive funeral which took Old Man’s retirement funds leaving him penniless. The greedy children became alienated...

A series of stories and practical info on becoming a railfan. Useful information, tips, and other useful tricks

Omphaloskepsis - a homework assignment by Liliya, Age 12 is a short story about what a young girl, Liliya, does over her summer, and the thoughts that the assignment given to her by her teacher has called up. Please be advised that this story includes scenes of domestic violence and abortion.

Nancy Evans married Lewis Titterton in Manhattan in 1929. An aspiring author she met the Englishman, who soon became an executive with NBC, in one of New York's literary circles. They lived for a time in a West Side neighborhood that was a part of Hell's Kitchen. Nancy disliked the noisy area and...

This read will take you on a real life journey as peace officers are getting shot and desperately fight for their lives. These are not made up stories, but you will live the events as they actually happened. These stories are told by those officers who were shot, in a millisecond by millisecond, and...