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Hiroshige

The album cover of the alternative rock band Weezer's 1996 album Pinkertons features Kambara Yoru no Yuki ("Night Snow at Kambara"), print number 15 * in Hiroshige's popular 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō series.


Abendland

Pinkerton compared Abendland to the works of other Austrian directors Ulrich Seidl and Michael Glawogger in how they show "under-the-hood images of the global economy’s workings".

Anaconda Road Massacre

Dashiell Hammett, once a Pinkerton agent stationed in Butte, Montana -- where he (allegedly) turned down an offer to assassinate Little -- used some historical background on union troubles and corporate corruption in his novel Red Harvest.

Colorado Labor Wars

After former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg was murdered and evidence pointed at Orchard, Pinkerton Detective James McParland obtained Orchard's confession by threatening him with immediate hanging, and said that he could avoid that fate only if he testified against leaders of the WFM.

After James McParland's testimony resulted in the execution of nineteen union men in the subsequent trials, he moved to Denver to run the regional Pinkerton office.

David Habbin

Habbin then went on to consolidate his operatic training for two years at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, and has since performed with various UK opera companies in several roles, including Alfredo in La Traviata, Lt. Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly, Ernesto in Don Pasquale, Almaviva in The Barber of Seville, Alfred in Die Fledermaus and Fenton in Falstaff.

De Situ Britanniae

William Forbes Skene, in his introduction to Celtic Scotland, written after De Situ Britanniae was debunked, disparaged several once-influential histories that relied on it, including Pinkerton's Enquiry, George Chalmers's Caledonia, Roy's Military Antiquities, and Robert Stuart's Caledonia Romana.

Éva Marton

She made her professional debut as Kate Pinkerton in Puccini's Madama Butterfly at Hungary's Margaret Island summer festival.

Fantasy Sports Writers Association

The current FSWA Board of Directors consists of: Pierre Becquey (ESPN, Ryan Bonini (KFFL), Scott Engel (RotoExperts), Michael Fabiano (NFL.com), Paul Forrester (Sprts Illustrated), Brandon Funston (Yahoo!), John T. Georgopoulos (Sports Grumblings), Kelly Grogan, Mike Harmon (FOX), Peter Madden (CBS), Lenny Pappano (Draft Sharks), Brad Pinkerton (The Sporting News), Peter Schoenke (RotoWire), Ron Shandler (Baseball HQ) and Brett Vandermark (RotoWorld).

Francesco Anile

In the last few years, Francesco Anile's repertory has gradually grown enriched by major roles, such as: Cavaradossi (Tosca), Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly), Luigi (Tabarro), Ishmael (Nabucco), Manrico (Il trovatore), Duke of Mantua (Rigoletto), and Radamès (Aida).

George Riddell

George W. Riddell, Pinkerton labor spy who infiltrated the Western Federation of Miners in Telluride

Hattie Lawton

She was part of the team that participated in the detection of the alleged 1861 Baltimore assassination plot against President-elect Abraham Lincoln and, according to Pinkerton's account, in the early part of 1861 Hattie was stationed in Perrymansville, Maryland with Timothy Webster, another Pinkerton agent.

Jay Pinkerton

In addition to Cracked, Pinkerton’s work has also appeared on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Modern Humorist, CollegeHumor.com and numerous other sites.

John Pinkerton

Pinkerton, along with John Thomson & Co. and John Cary, redefined cartography by exchanging the elaborate cartouches and fantastical beasts used in the 18th century for more accurate detail.

Madame's Place

Madame lived in a plush mansion with her butler, ex-boxer Pinkerton (Johnny Haymer); they interacted with nerdy day planner Bernadette (Susan Tolsky), Madame's beautiful, IQ-challenged, southern-belle niece Sara Joy (Judy Landers), and nosy kid neighbor Buzzy (Corey Feldman).

Morgan Kane: The Legend Begins

Louis Masterson have on several occasions said that his main inspiration for the Morgan Kane character came from Ian Fleming’s James Bond, with Morgan Kane moving through his own time as a rouge gunslinger backed by the law, as a Texas Ranger, a U.S. Marshal and later a Pinkerton and bodyguard to Theodore Roosevelt.

Nancy Pinkerton

After One Life to Live, Pinkerton portrayed Viveca Strand on The Doctors from 1979 to 1981, Dorothy Connors on As the World Turns from 1983 to 1984, and Helen Kennedy on The Guiding Light in 1985.

Pinkerton is perhaps best known as the original actress to play Dr. Dorian Lord on the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live from 1973 to 1977, a period which would establish the character as the prime nemesis to the series' longrunning heroine, Victoria Lord (portrayed since 1971 by multiple Daytime Emmy-winner Erika Slezak).

Pinkerton had previously appeared on The Edge of Night as Beth Moon Anderson Barnes from 1963 to 1967 and as Karen MacMillan on Somerset from 1970 to 1972.

Orrin N. Hilton

Judge Hilton successfully defended George Pettibone of the Western Federation of Miners when Pinkerton detective James McParland accused him of conspiracy to murder former Idaho governor Frank Steunenberg.

Paul Althouse

He appeared annually at Met for the next six years, singing such roles as Aegisth in Elektra, Loge in Das Rheingold, Pinkerton, Tristan, Walther von Stolzing, and the title role in Lohengrin.

Pinkerton Government Services

Harry Orchard was arrested by the Idaho police and confessed to Pinkerton agent James McParland that he assassinated former Governor Frank Steunenberg of Idaho in 1905.

Railroad police

Railroad contracts were subsequently a mainstay of Pinkerton's until railroad companies gradually developed their own police departments in the years following the Civil War.

Renato Cioni

Earlier that same year he had appeared as Pinkerton, in a television production of Madama Butterfly, opposite another debutante, Anna Moffo.

Richard Verreau

He made his debut at the Royal Opera House in London, as the Duke in Rigoletto, in 1957, other roles there included: Alfredo in La traviata, Rodolfo in La bohème, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly.

Sandy Johnstone

On 24 November 1939 George Pinkerton was promoted to Squadron Leader and given Command of No. 65 Squadron RAF, with Johnstone taking over command of ‘B’ Flight from Pinkerton.

Score: A Hockey Musical

#"Kraft Dinner" Written by DiFelice, Pinkerton, and McGowan


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