The Commission is the governing body of the American Mafia, formed in 1931 by Charles "Lucky" Luciano following the Castellammarese War.[1] The Commission replaced the title of capo di tutti i capi ("boss of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Commi…
all bosses"), held by Salvatore Maranzano before his murder, with a ruling committee that consists of the bosses of the Five Families of New York City, as well as the bosses of the Chicago Outfit and the Buffalo crime family. Throughout the history of the Commission, the body has
been involved in several incidents including the Apalachin meeting in 1957, a plot to kill several members of the Commission in 1963, and the Mafia Commission Trial in 1985. The Commission consisted of seven family bosses: the leaders of New York's Five Families: Charlie "Lucky"
Luciano, Vincent Mangano, Tommy Gagliano, Joseph Bonanno, and Joe Profaci; Chicago Outfit boss Al Capone; and Buffalo family boss Stefano Magaddino. Charlie Luciano was appointed chairman of the Commission. The Commission agreed to hold meetings every five years or when they
needed to discuss family problems.
The Bugs and Meyer Mob was the predecessor to Murder, Incorporated. The gang was founded by New York Jewish American mobsters Meyer Lansky and Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel in the early 1920s. After the Castellammarese War and the assassination of
U.S. Mafia boss Salvatore Maranzano, Sicilian mafioso Charles "Lucky" Luciano created the Commission. Soon after, Siegel and Lansky disbanded the Bugs and Meyer gang and formed Murder, Incorporated. Murder, Inc's name featured on the leather jacket of a crew member of a USAAF
B-17 that was shot down over Nazi Germany on 26 November 1943. The jacket artwork was photographed and circulated around the world by German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Hitler condemning the use of "gangster language" on the uniform of a soldier.
This is an article from the Nazi newspaper "Volks-Bote" (people's messenger) of 22nd december 1943 and tells the story of a 21 year old "American gangster" flyer Kenneth D. Williams who was shot down near Eggese Germany on a Bremen bomb run on 26th of November 1943. Inmagine
Goebels when he first saw this photograph. 351st Bomb Group
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The 351st Bomb Group flew strategic bombing missions from their base at Polebrook, Northamptonshire from April 1943 to June 1945. The Group's most famous member was Hollywood actor Clark Gable, who flew four/
five missions with them as an observer... base was used as a site for Thor missiles in the 1950s.[4]
For some time during the war Clark Gable was stationed at Polebrook and at RAF Marston Moor near Wetherby. He made morale-boosting visits locally during his time there, an example
being Marco in Grantham – a picture appears on the Manthorpe News website. The initial design studies were headed by Cmdr. Robert Truax (US Navy) and Dr. Adolph K. Thiel (Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation, formerly of Redstone Arsenal). They refined the specifications to an IRBM with:
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On September 14, 1867, a meeting of the Aztec Club was held at Astor House in New York City. Robert Patterson, original member and last president of the Montezuma Society was given the chair by motion, with Peter V. Hagner en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_Clu…
as treasurer and George Sykes to serve as acting secretary. In November, 1868, twenty-one years after the cessation of hostilities in Mexico City, Ulysses S. Grant, an original member of the Aztec Club, was elected President of the United States, the second member to do so.
The archives of the Aztec Club are maintained at the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, located at United States Army War College at Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The U.S. Army War College, located at the Carlisle Barracks, prepares high-level military personnel and civilians for
In 1993 after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, John Skilling said in an interview to the Seattle Times that according to their studies the World Trade Center was strong enough to withstand the impact of a Boeing 707. The en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Skil…
only thing they were worried about was, in case of an airplane crash, the dumping of all airfuel into the building which would cause a horrendous fire. The building structure would still be there. John Skilling (October 8, 1921 in Los Angeles, California – March 5, 1998 in
Seattle, Washington) was a civil engineer and architect, best known for being the chief structural engineer of the World Trade Center.
John Skilling graduated from the University of Washington in 1947 with a B.S. in civil engineering[2] and started working for an engineering
Francisco Mendes|Benveniste founded and directed the Mendes Bank, along with his brothers Diogo Mendes (Meir Benveniste) and Goncalo Mendes, from Lisbon and later from Antwerp,[15] a powerful trading company and a bank of world en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benveniste
repute with agents across Europe and around the Mediterranean. They became particularly important as one of the six families that controlled the spice trade in the Portuguese India Armadas (the kings of black pepper).
They financed the kings and queens of Portugal, Spain,
England, the Flanders and the popes in Rome through the Bank of Mendes, which became one of largest banks in the world of the 16th century along with the Fugger and Welser family[In 1911 Mendes Gans & Co. changed into a licensed bank (under supervision of, and licensed by, the
The company's beginnings date back to the British Mandate for Palestine when Consolidated Refineries Limited (CRL), a joint venture of Shell and the Anglo-American Oil Company (now Esso),[7] started constructing a sprawling en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAZAN_Gro…
refinery complex which sat at the end of the British-built Mosul-Haifa oil pipeline which stretched from the oil fields near Kirkuk in then British-controlled Iraq Construction of the first refinery unit started in 1938 and was carried out by the M. W. Kellogg Co. with assistance
from Solel Boneh, with an annual capacity of two million tons of crude oil. KBR, Inc. (formerly Kellogg Brown & Root) is a U.S. based company that delivers science, technology and engineering solutions.[2] KBR works in various markets including aerospace, defense, industrial
"So this is the end of the Romanov Dynasty, is it...", to which Mikhail Kudrin responded: "No, not yet; there is still much work to be done". According to Kudrin, when the body of the French Bulldog Ortino, "the last en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipp_Go…
pathetic remnant of the Imperial Family", was brought out on the end of a Red Guardsman's bayonet and unceremoniously hurled onto the fiat, Goloshchyokin sneered, "Dogs deserve a dogs death" as he glared at the dead tsar.
At a telegraph office in Ekaterinburg on 18 July, he caught Sir Thomas Preston, a diplomat at the British Consulate, attempting to cable Sir Arthur Balfour in London with the message, "The Tsar Nicholas the Second was shot last night."The Balfour Declaration was a public
The Center's initiatives include the following: working in conjunction with the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University to establish the Bipartisan Index,[114] partnering with the Arms Control Association to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_L…
establish the Bipartisan Nuclear and WMD Policy Dialogue Project, and compiling a comprehensive selection of bibliographical resources for researchers and policymakers interested in global food security. In addition, the Lugar Diplomacy Series brings together American policy- and
opinion-makers and the Washington diplomatic community. Guests have included Elena Kagan, David Petraeus, and Howard Buffett. In 1972, Lugar was the keynote speaker at the Republican National Convention. During this time he became known as "Richard Nixon's favorite mayor",