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unusual facts about Thieves


Green Ronin Publishing

Other notable products include the Freeport, Thieves' World and The Black Company d20 settings, Mutants & Masterminds, Blue Rose, and True20.


American University in Bulgaria

Elizabeth Kostova, former AUBG Board Member, AUBG University Council member since 2011, author of the bestselling novels The Historian and The Swan Thieves

Anna Samokhina

She is best known as the leading actress in Yuri Kara's Barons of Crime (rus. Воры в законе, literally Thieves within the Law) - the most outgiving, brutal and controversial Soviet film, about mafia and corruption in the late USSR.

Benten Kozō

The play centers on a band of five thieves, based on real thieves and criminals of Edo period Osaka: Karigane Bunshichi, An no Heibei, Gokuin Sen'emon, Kaminari Shōkurō and Hotei Ichiemon.

Beyond the Dar Al-Harb

The title story is original to this collection, and features "Red Jamie", a character from the Thieves World series previously in Dickson's collaborative novel Jamie the Red (1984) (written with Roland Green).

Biometrics

For example, in 2005, Malaysian car thieves cut off the finger of a Mercedes-Benz S-Class owner when attempting to steal the car.

Dan Noble

It soon became a popular spot for thieves, burglars and other underworld figures, where Noble became closely associated with the "Long Doctor", "Big" Jack Connolly and Johnny Murphy under whose tutelage he was encouraged to enter the trade himself.

Derrick Goodwin

He directed and produced Thick as Thieves, written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and starring John Thaw and Bob Hoskins.

Dragons of Zynth

Following the recording and release of Coronation Thieves, the band has shared stages with Modest Mouse, Television, Grizzly Bear, Saul Williams and The Roots.

Edward Dolnick

Dolnick's book The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece (2005)—an account of the 1994 theft, and eventual recovery, of Edvard Munch's The Scream from Norway's National Gallery in Oslo—won the 2006 Edgar Award in the Best Crime Fact category.

Foot Clan

In the first and second movies, the Foot Clan is a group of ninja thieves and assassins founded by the Shredder in Japan, but later stationed in New York.

François de Sagon

He published in 1544 Apologye en défense pour le Roy, a text defending the actions of Francis I in the Franco-Ottoman alliance, by drawing parallels with the Parable of the Good Samaritan in the Bible, in which Francis is compared to the wounded man, the Emperor to the thieves, and Suleiman to the Good Samaritan providing help to Francis.

George W. Hayward

Sir Henry Newbolt wrote the poem "He Fell Among Thieves" about Hayward's death.

Great Lakes Avengers

Craig Hollis discovers he is immortal and decides to fight crime as Mr. Immortal, but after being shot in the head by a group of thieves realizes that operating alone may not be feasible.

Green Park

At the time, the park was on the outskirts of London and remained an isolated area well into the 18th century, when it was known as a haunt of highwaymen and thieves; Horace Walpole was one of many to be robbed there.

Henry Herman

Between 1887 and 1891 he wrote several novels in collaboration with David Christie Murray, such as: One Traveler Returns (1887); A Dangerous Catspaw (1889); The Bishop's Bible (1890); He Fell Among Thieves (1890); and Paul Jones's Alias (1891).

Henry Mayhew

The articles comprising London Labour and the London Poor were initially collected into three volumes in 1851; the 1861 edition included a fourth volume, co-written with Bracebridge Hemyng, John Binny and Andrew Halliday, on the lives of prostitutes, thieves and beggars.

Hunt to Kill

Banks and the other thieves—Jensen (Gary Daniels), Geary (Michael Eklund), Crab (Adrian Holmes), and Dominika (Emilie Ullerup)—vow to find Lawson and get the bonds back.

Jonathan Wild

Jonathan Wild is also the title character in the 2005–2006 Phantom stories "Jonathan Wild: King of Thieves" and "Jonathan Wild: Double Cross".

Kari Innerå

In the morning of May 2, 2011 thieves broke into Cru vine & kjøkken and stole 100 bottles of expensive wine and champagne worth 40.000-50.000 USD, including a Romanée-Conti, La Tâche Grand Cru 1972 and top wines from Château d'Yquem, Liger-Belair, Jacques Selosse and Dom Pérignon.

Ladri di Carrozzelle

Ladri di Carrozzelle ("Wheelchair Thieves" as the name is a play on the film Bicycle Thieves) is an Italian Pop rock group that formed due to a summer event in 1989 for the Union for the Fight Against Muscular Dystrophy.

LaHost

He had his own band The Fire Thieves, and worked with Tim Bowness and the band Henry Fool.

Larry Hibbitt

Hibbitt has written with Dinosaur Pile-Up, Katie Sutherland, Hill Valley High, Norma Jean Martine, Sophie Madeleine, Nothing But Thieves, Cortes, RosieMay and Alex Davies, and his production/mixing credits include Million Dead, The Computers, Hundred Reasons, Marmozets, Spirits, Scholars, My Awesome Compilation, Rumble In Rhodos, Capdown, Hill Valley High, Stapleton and Max Raptor.

Logierait

Nearby is an ancient ash tree, the Dule Tree of the district from which thieves and murderers were hanged.

Lon Oden

Assisted by Ranger and undercover agent Ernest St. Leon, the Rangers set up surveillance on a mine where the thieves were expected to strike, based on inside information gained by St. Leon.

Michel Rainville

The Somalia Affair saw Rainville issue an autonomous 1993 order re-labeling petty thieves at a Canadian military base in Belet Huen as "saboteurs" and authorizing deadly force which resulted in the shooting death of an unarmed Somali named Ahmed Arush.

Ngāti Mutunga

At the passing of the bill Hansard shows MPs spoke warmly of the Ngati Mutunga positive contribution to bringing to an end the grievances with the Crown, although Maori party MP Te Ururoa Flavell, speaking in Maori only, said that he believed Ngati Mutunga had been given a poor deal by the Crown who he called thieves.

Police and Thieves

A dub version, "Grumblin' Dub", was released on the B-side of the "Police and Thieves" single, credited to The Upsetters.

Pretty Good Dance Moves

Pretty Good Dance Moves has collaborated with Genevieve Schatz from Chicago band Company of Thieves, American comedienne Kristen Schaal famously known from HBO series Flight of the Conchords in the making of the music video for the song "Demons Dancing" and America's Next Top Model runner up Shandy Sullivan in the making of the music video for "In the Heat of the Night".

Robert Asprin

Janet Morris and Chris Morris went on to produce two more authorized Thieves' World "Beyond" novels and a series of related novels about their immortalized character, Tempus, and the Sacred Band of Stepsons.

S. Ve. Shekher

They have also worked together, with Crazy Mohan writing two plays for Shekher's troupe, Crazy Thieves in Palavakkam and Oru Sondha Veedu Vaadagai Veedagiradhu, and the cult comedy Kathanayagan starring Pandiarajan and Shekher.

See No Evil, Hear No Evil

It stars Richard Pryor as a blind man and Gene Wilder as a deaf man who work together to thwart a trio of murderous thieves.

Stampede of the Disco Elephants

On the 1st of November, the band released a new single "Thieves", a cover of the song by Ministry.

Steve Perrin

While at Chaosium he also created Stormbringer, Worlds of Wonder, Elfquest, and Superworld, and contributed to Thieves' World and Call of Cthulhu.

Tempestarii

Agobard of Lyons also referenced a related belief amongst his parishioners--a belief that tempestarii were in league with a mythical race of cloud-dwellers who came from a land named 'Magonia' ("Land of Magic", "Land of Thieves").

The American Astronaut

Space travel has become a dirty way of life dominated by derelicts, grease monkeys, thieves, and hard-boiled interplanetary traders such as Samuel Curtis (Cory McAbee), an astronaut from Earth who deals in rare goods, living or otherwise.

The Bluest Eye

Rapper Talib Kweli used the book as an inspiration for his song "Thieves in the Night" with Mos Def on the Blackstar album.

The Republic of Thieves

The Republic of Thieves is the third novel in Scott Lynch's Gentleman Bastard series.

The Rip Van Winkle Caper

To escape the law after stealing $1 million worth of gold bricks from a train on its way from Fort Knox to Los Angeles, a band of four gold thieves, led by foreign-accented scientist-mastermind Farwell (Oscar Beregi, Jr.), hide in a secret cave in Death Valley, California.

The Short-Wave Mystery

The Hardy boys are drawn into a mystery when a group of thieves steals a collection of stuffed animals from an Estate sale.

Thieves in Black

The Thieves in Black is a media-coined name given to a supposed anarchist group responsible for numerous bank robberies in Athens, Greece.

Thieves of Baghdad

Thieves of Baghdad is a non-fictional account written by Col. Matthew Bogdanos about the quest to recover over a thousand lost artifacts from the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad after the country's counter-invasion.

Thieves Quartet

Thieves Quartet is a 1994 film directed by Joe Chappelle.

Third Heaven

In contrast with the common concept of Paradise, the Second Book of Enoch also describes a Third Heaven, "a very terrible place" with "all manner of tortures" in which merciless angels torment "those who dishonour God, who on earth practice sin against nature," including sodomites, sorcerers, enchanters, witches, the proud, thieves, liars and those guilty of various other transgressions.

Tony Lundy

Throughout the 1970s, the supergrass was a feared tool that the police had begun using which is generally considered to have begun with Bertie Smalls, who, faced with a hefty prison sentence for his part in leading his gang of armed robbers, the 'Wembley Mob', decided to turn 'Queen's Evidence' against his fellow thieves which resulted in them receiving heavy prison sentences whilst Smalls was granted immunity from prosecution.

Wetbike

The Wetbike also appeared in the 1986 comedy Police Academy 3: Back in Training, in which a group of Wetbikes and Kawasaki JS550 stand up jet skis were used by the police to chase down thieves in speedboats during the movie's ending water chase scene.

Yuri Kara

Yuri Kara became known in Russia with his movies Thieves within the Law (1988) and The Feasts of Belshazzar, or a Night with Stalin (1990), and with his conflict with the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) which was caused by his film The Prize is a Trip into Space, based on the novel Cassandra's Brand written by the Russian author Chinghiz Aitmatov.


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