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Robber's Bridge

R.D. Blackmore drew on the history and legends of this area to create his world-famous novel Lorna Doone.


'Imran ibn Shahin

War between the two sides resumed in the summer 971, when 'Izz al-Daula's vizier Abu'l-Fadl suggested carrying out an attack against the Batihah in an effort to plunder the robber-state and relieve the Buyids' financial troubles.

A Touch of Cloth

Both threaten each other to drop the gun when Todd recognises the robber to be known as "Twitch" (Ben Bishop) and works for "Macratty".

Adventure in Manhattan

George Melville (Joel McCrea) is a know-it-all crime reporter who tracks down a robber.

Arnold Schuster

A longtime Brooklyn resident, 24-year-old Schuster recognized wanted bank robber Willie Sutton while riding on the New York City Subway in February 1952.

Bait 3D

After this, Jessup is held at gun point by a robber, Doyle (Julian McMahon).

Citibank

Political cartoonist Michel Kichka satirized Citibank in his 1982 poster "And I Love New York." The lettering above the entrance to a New York City branch read "Citibang." Meanwhile, a stocking-wearing bank robber exits and fires shots at NYPD officers responding to the robbery.

Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless

Bank robber John Dillinger was carrying this model of pistol when he was shot by FBI agents outside the Biograph theater on July 22, 1934, and another famous bank robber, Willie Sutton kept one when was captured by police in Brooklyn on February 18, 1952.

Conway's Bridge

Conway's Bridge is an ornamental rustic arched stone structure close to the River Thames on the estate of Park Place, Berkshire, England.

Deer Park, Toronto

After a stakeout, Canada's most notorious bank robber of the day, Edwin Boyd, leader of the Boyd Gang, was captured in this house at 6:00AM on March 15, 1952.

Devil's Bridge, Ceredigion

The celebrated English author George Borrow wrote Wild Wales (1854), which includes a lively, humorous account of his visit to Pontarfynach.

Effects of Hurricane Isabel in Delaware

The Christina River at Cooch's Bridge crested at 2.38 feet (0.725 m) above flood stage, and the Red Clay Creek at Wooddale crested at roughly 4 inches (100 mm) above flood stage.

Every Little Part of Me

The video was produced by Flynn (Ryan Lough for Dirty Robber, Jacob Swan Hyam - produced the video for company, Flynn).

Fools' Parade

Murderer Mattie Appleyard, bank robber Lee Cottrill and young Johnny Jesus are released from the West Virginia State Penitentiary, located in the fictional town of Glory, in 1935.

Francis Sacheverel Darwin

Travelling was not then what it is now, and they came in contact with war, robbers, privateers and the plague in the diary of this two years' tour in the East.

Golden's Bridge, New York

At one time, Golden's Bridge was home to Wildoak Kennels, considered America's leading breeder of Wire Fox Terriers.

Governor's Bridge, Toronto

The west part of the neighbourhood was quickly built up during the Roaring Twenties boom period, and most of the houses date from this era.

Hanna Zetterberg Struwe

Before politics, she was a child actor, remembered for having played Ronia the Robber's Daughter in the 1984 film based on Astrid Lindgren's famous book.

Jacob Eugene Duryée

At the Battle of Antietam, Duryée stalwartly led his regiment from the front as the men tried to take the infamous Burnside's Bridge over Antietam Creek in the face of withering fire from Georgia regiments on the hills on the opposite bank.

Jardine Matheson

The name of Yee Wo Street in Hong Kong's East Point and Causeway Bay Districts comes from Jardine's Chinese name "Ewo" whilst other locations associated with the company include Jardine's Bazaar, Jardine's Crescent, Jardine's Bridge, Jardine's Lookout, Yee Wo Street, Matheson Street, Jardine House and the Noon-day Gun.

Jeff Maysh

Jeff Maysh’s first book was published in November, 2007, ‘Brown Bread Fred’ is a ghost-written autobiography of London bank robber Freddie Foreman.

Joe's Bridge

This silenced the guns, and the road was cleared of wreckage by armoured bulldozers, while infantry mopped up, thus setting a pattern for the rest of the advance towards Valkenswaard and Eindhoven.

Once the bridge was secure, men of the 615th Field Squadron, Royal Engineers, set about repairing it, while the Irish Guards secured a bridgehead along the N69 main road towards Valkenswaard.

Johann Kastenberger

In 2009, director Benjamin Heisenberg dramatized Kastenberger's career as a runner and bank robber in his film The Robber, with Andreas Lust in the title role, based on Martin Prinz's 2002 novel of the same name.

John Kendrick

John Allen Kendrick (1901–1960), American criminal and bank robber

Julian Rubinstein

His book Ballad of the Whiskey Robber, published in 2004, is about the Hungarian bank robber and folk hero Attila Ambrus.

Kirkby Lonsdale

In common with many bridges of the same name, legend holds that the Devil appeared to an old woman, promising to build a bridge in exchange for the first soul to cross over it.

Kobus van der Schlossen

With his robber band 'De Zwarte Bende' he made his home in the vast and impenetrable Slabroek forests near Uden.

L'Alpagueur

The main plot revolves around l'Alpagueur's pursuit of l'Épervier, (Sparrowhawk) a bank robber and an assassin, who kills whoever sees him commit a crime.

Liberian National Museum

In 1972, the museum was relocated to a new building on Providence Island but four years later this building was removed to facilitate the construction of the People's Bridge over the Mesurado River.

Lordship of Albarracín

In 1167, under the pressure from the ongoing wars between the Almoravid Dynasty and the new invasions of the Almohad Caliphate, the Moorish King Muhammad ibn Mardanis (nicknamed the Robber King), ceded the Taifa of Albarracín to a vassal of Sancho VI of Navarre, a noble from Estella-Lizarra named Pedro Ruiz de Azagra.

Mama Bhagne

When Rama decided to attack Ravana he found it necessary to throw a bridge across the straits for the conveyance of his troops, he drove in his aerial chariot to the Himalayas, picked up what stones he needed and drove back.

Munch Museum

The robbers forced the museum guards to lie down on the floor while they snapped the cable securing the paintings to the wall and escaped in a black Audi A6 station wagon, which police later found abandoned.

Nightingale the Robber

Nightingale the Robber or Solovei the Brigand (Russian: Солове́й-Разбо́йник, Solovey-Razboynik), also known as Solovey Odikhmantievich (Соловей Одихмантьевич), was an epic robber from bylinas poetry of Kievan Rus'.

One More Train to Rob

Set in the Old West, the story is about train-robber Harker Fleet (Peppard), who is sent to prison for assaulting a sheriff and his deputy while trying to escape a forced marriage, set up by his former partner, Timothy Xavier Nolan (John Vernon).

Pero's Bridge

The bridge is named after Pero, also known as Pero Jones, who lived from around 1753 to 1798, arriving in Bristol probably from the Caribbean Island of Nevis in 1783, as the slave of the merchant John Pinney (1740–1818) at 5 Great George Street.

Ram Karmabhoomi

Ram Karmabhoomi is the area consisting of Rameshwaram, Dhanushkodi, Adam's Bridge, also known as Rama's Bridge, where the Hindu deity Rama is believed to have conducted his fight against Ravana to rescue Sita.

Richard Brinsley Peake

Peake wrote the accompanying text for the picture-book French Characteristic Costumes (1816); a comedic book of Cockney sports entitled Snobson's 'Seasons (1838); Cartouche, the Celebrated French Robber (1844) in three-volumes; and a two-volume biography of a theatrical family, Memoirs of the Colman Family (1841).

Robert H. Paul

Bob was joined in 1879 by Al Sieber and Johnny Behan in a chase for the robber and murderer during the stage holdup near Gillette, Arizona (near present-day Tip Top, Arizona in Yavapai County).

S bridge

The next bridge, four and a half miles east from New Concord on US Route 40, is found at the intersection of US 40 and Peter's Creek Road.

The fourth bridge is located between Old Washington, Ohio and Middlebourne, Ohio along Blend Road, at the intersection of Bridgewater Road, and has been designated a National Historic Landmark.

Samuel James Arnold

Other foreign operas of note, the Tarare of Antonio Salieri, The Freebooters by Ferdinando Paer, The Robber's Bride by Ferdinand Ries, and Heinrich Marschner's Der Vampyr, were afterwards produced at the English Opera House for the first time in England.

Sheffield Tramway

Along with lines opening to Abbeydale, Walkley and Hunter's Bar, the missing link in the centre of the sprawling network between Moorhead and Lady's Bridge was finally laid.

Snell's Bridge

American troops lead by William H. Winder retreated across Snell's bridge on August 26, 1814.

St. James's Bridge

Four bronze relief plaques depicting scenes from The Water Man, a Ljubljana-related Romantic ballad of the poet France Prešeren, were intended to be put on the fence of the bridge.

Take the Money and Run

Written by Allen and Mickey Rose, the film chronicles the life of Virgil Starkwell (Woody Allen), an inept bank robber.

Tea cosy

In the 2000 film Snatch, a tea cosy is placed over Franky Four Fingers' (Benicio del Toro's) head in place of a blindfold, when he is held captive by pawnbrokers-turned-robber-abductors Vinnie (Robbie Gee) and Sol (Lennie James).

Tharandt Forest

In the early 18th century in the Tännichtgrund bottom near Naundorf in the Tharandt Forest was the hideaway of the notorious robber, Lips Tullian and his Black Guard (Schwarzen Garde).


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