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Thomas Matthew Crooks. Thomas Matthew Crooks (September 20, 2003 – July 13, 2024) was an American man who attempted to assassinate former U.S. president Donald Trump, who at the time was the presumptive Republican Party nominee for the 2024 presidential election. [2][3] On July 13, 2024, at a rally near Butler, Pennsylvania, Crooks shot at ...
Since the office was established in 1789, 45 men have served in 46 presidencies. The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [4] Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, giving rise to the discrepancy between the ...
SMS Helgoland was a dreadnought battleship of the Imperial German Navy. Her design improved from the Nassau class, including an increase in the bore diameter of the main guns. Her keel was laid down at the Howaldtswerke shipyards in Kiel; she was launched on 25 September 1909, and commissioned on 23 August 1911.
Gerry Adams. Gerard Adams (Irish: Gearóid Mac Ádhaimh; [1] born 6 October 1948) is an Irish republican politician who was the president of Sinn Féin between 13 November 1983 and 10 February 2018, and served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Louth from 2011 to 2020. [2][3] From 1983 to 1992 and from 1997 to 2011, he followed the policy of ...
goomar or goomah: Americanized form of comare, a Mafia mistress. goombah: an associate, especially a senior member of a criminal gang. heavy: packed, carrying a weapon. hit: to murder; also see whack. initiation or induction: becoming a made man. juice: the interest paid to a loan shark for the loan; also see vig.
Dot Records, Double A Records. Maxfield Doyle Crook (November 2, 1936 – July 1, 2020) [1] was an American musician, a pioneer of electronic music in pop. He was the featured soloist on Del Shannon 's 1961 hit "Runaway", which he co-wrote and on which he played his own invention, the Musitron. He also recorded as Maximilian.
Horsemeat March. The Horsemeat March of 1876, also known as the Mud March and the Starvation March, was a military expedition led by General George Crook in pursuit of a band of Sioux fleeing from anticipated retaliation for their overwhelming victory over George Armstrong Custer 's 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Fredericka " Marm " Mandelbaum (March 25, 1825 – February 26, 1894) [1][2][3] operated as a criminal fence to many of the street gangs and criminals of New York 's underworld, handling between $1–5 million in stolen goods between 1862 and 1884. Like her principal rival John D. Grady and the Grady Gang, she also became a matriarch to the ...