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Smugglers' Songs

Following the death of the notorious smuggler Louis Mandrin his old friends walk in his footsteps and make him popular by composing and singing songs about him.


Anata no Sedai e Kuchizuke o

A second take of "Anata no Sedai e Kuchizuke o", sung on a higher key, was recorded for Mizuki's compilation album Arisa's Favorite: T.K. Songs.

Battle of Mudeford

The Battle of Mudeford was a skirmish fought between smugglers and Customs and Excise officers which occurred in 1784 on what is now a car park at Mudeford Quay, Mudeford, Christchurch, England near the entrance of Christchurch Harbour.

Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West

Buffalo Bill is sent west by President Grant to settle an Indian uprising started by Yellow Hand and supported by gun smugglers.

Buick Invicta

According to Robin Moore in his 1969 book The French Connection, "the 1960 Buick Invicta had a peculiarity in body construction conducive to the installations of . . . extraordinary, virtually detection-proof traps concealed within the fenders and undercarriage" that made it a popular model for international heroin smugglers.

Collieston

The numerous sea caves in the nearby cliffs, and small coves with shingle beaches provided ideal terrain for smugglers.

Edgar Percival E.P.9

It was once owned in the late 1960s by a gang of international smugglers who found it the ideal way to smuggle stolen furs and counterfeit Swiss francs between England and Belgium.

Epic Horse

At the time Holmes "had just been on vacation in the English county of Dorset where my imagination had latched on to tales of smugglers and wreckers and beautiful hills overlooking long stretches of stony beach".

Further Adventures of Doctor Syn

It is a highly episodic series of adventures as Syn, in his guise as the Scarecrow outwits the king's agents and keeps his band of Dymchurch smugglers out of prison.

History of Pensacola, Florida

Conflict with French and British interests was common, although Spain's informal alliance with France meant that the greatest threat was from English pirates, smugglers and especially merchants, whose ability to sell goods more cheaply than Spanish companies diminished local support for the Bourbon monarchy in Madrid.

Internet censorship in Morocco

An anonymous person calling himself the "Targuist Sniper" from Targuist, a small Berber town in northern Morocco, posted several videos of good quality on Youtube showing Moroccan police officers, one after another, accepting cash bribes from truck drivers and potential smugglers.

Ken Burnstine

Kenneth G. "Ken" Burnstine (d. 16 June 1976) was an American drug smuggler and pilot who was described by the Associated Press in 1981 as "one of America's most daring drug smugglers".

Koda Kumi Driving Hit's 5

It is set to release on March 20, 2013, on the same day as live DVD/Blu-ray Premium Night: Love & Songs and 6 rental live albums.

Krondor: The Betrayal

Tsurani gem smugglers led by The Crawler and traitors to the crown are all plotting the fall of the Kingdom of the Isles.

Moonfleet

Among other major changes, its young hero was given the newly invented rogue gentleman Jeremy Fox for a mentor (played by Stewart Granger), while the role of the working class Elzevir Block was reduced to leading a group of the smugglers seeking to kill John.

Morris-Taney-class cutter

Samuel Humphreys designed these cutters for roles as diverse as fighting pirates, privateers, combating smugglers and operating with naval forces.

My Queen

It contains seventeen songs, and a DVD version which contains Fish Leong's Fall in Love & Songs album's music video and karaoke.

P. S. Pasricha

In 1974, he served as additional Superintendent of Police (crime) in Thane, where took stringent action against smugglers and feared criminals.

Promise to Promise

It was released on July 24, 1996 as the first and only single from Mizuki's second compilation album Arisa's Favorite: T.K. Songs, which features the "Urban Street Mix" version.

Ravan Raaj: A True Story

Ravan Raaj: A True Story is a 1995 Hindi-language Indian feature film directed by T.Rama Rao, starring Mithun Chakraborty, Madhoo, and Aditya Pancholi and is centred around kidney smugglers and a serial killer.

Riding officer

When Daniel Defoe rode through Hythe towards Rye in the 1720s he saw riding officers and dragoons searching the marshes for wool smugglers '... as if they were huntsmen beating up their game ...'

Sivi kamion crvene boje

On their road through Yugoslavian countryside, they enter numerous, sometimes funny sometimes life-threatening, situations and encounter numerous people of virtually all ethnicities, soldiers of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), smugglers, gunrunners, foreign mercenaries, petty thieves, members of illegal local militias, all of them just waiting for the war to break out.

Star Rovers

In the New 52, a relaunch of DC's properties, the Star Rovers are introduced as smugglers, first appearing in Green Lantern: New Guardians Annual #1 (March 2013).

The Man Within

In 1947, a film version The Man Within was made of the novel (called The Smugglers in the United States) starring Ronald Shiner, Michael Redgrave as Carlyon and Richard Attenborough as Andrews.

The Red Beggar of Abbeyleix

He lost a leg in a fight with smugglers off the French coast, but although fitted with a wooden leg was of no use aboard the ship and was cast ashore.

Varpas

Because its publication was illegal in Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire, it was printed in Tilsit (current Sovetsk) and Ragnit (current Neman) in German East Prussia and smuggled into Lithuania by the knygnešiai (book smugglers).

Večeras vas zabavljaju muzičari koji piju

Because of the lyrics "Grčki sverceri, arapski studenti, negativni elementi, maloletni delikventi i besni psi" ("Greek smugglers, Arabian students, negative elements, juvenile hooligans and mad dogs"), the embassies of three Arabian countries and Zaire protested, complaining that songwriter Bora Đorđević had equated foreign students and mad dogs.

William Proby, Lord Proby

The summer was spent combatting smugglers between Berry Head and Mount's Bay, and by the end of August, Amelia had sailed for Den Helder with Dutch troops discharged from the British service.


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