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unusual facts about smuggler



A. Wesley Stuart

Time magazine reported that he declared he had "been a smuggler all his life—and intended to keep on being one," adding that he "never came through the border in my lifetime that I did not smuggle something."

Abdullah al-Ahdal

In 2008, the Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws reported that Abdelkader Belliraj, a Moroccan-Belgian arms smuggler, had murdered Al-Ahdal, el-Beher and Jah al-Rasul, a driver for the Saudi embassy in Brussels.

Agostino Carlini

Also in 1775, Carlini was commissioned by Dr William Hunter, first Professor of Anatomy at the Royal Academy schools, to make a cast of the flayed corpse of a recently executed smuggler.

Atlántida, Uruguay

In the nearby resort Villa Argentina, "El Águila" is an enigmatic and attractive stone building that gave rise to several legends, from a smuggler's haven, a Nazi observatory and a "cosmic energy centre".

Aurora, Missouri

Raelynn Hillhouse, national security and intelligence community analyst, former smuggler during the Cold War, and a spy novelist.

Bada Kabutar

He reluctantly joins hands with Mama who recruits club dancer Rita (Rehana Sultan) alongside his trustworthy gang members Abdul Keshto Mukherjee and others to plan the heist of kidnapping the only son of millionaire businessman cum antisocial smuggler Seth Dharamdas (Pinchoo Kapoor).

Benya Krik

Krik, who is also known as The King, is the leader of a group of thugs and smugglers, that operate in the Jewish ghetto Moldavanka in Odessa.

Bertram Wallis

Between the wars, Wallis also made a number of films, including The Cost of a Kiss (1917), as Lord Darlington; Victory and Peace (1918), as Bob Brierley; The Wandering Jew (1933), as Prince Bohemund; A Dream of Love (1938), as Liszt 'old'; Chips (1938), as Smuggler; A People Eternal (1939), as The English Prince; and Shipbuilders (1944), as Caven Watson.

Ching Shih

A semi-fictionalized account of Ching Shih's life appeared in Jorge Luis Borges's short story "The Widow Ching, Lady Pirate" (part of A Universal History of Infamy, first edited in 1954), where she is described as "a lady pirate who operated in Asian waters, all the way from the Yellow Sea to the rivers of the Annam coast", and who, after surrendering to the imperial forces, is pardoned and allowed to live the rest of her life as an opium smuggler.

Cuddy

Edward Aburrow senior or Cuddy, English cricketer and reported smuggler

Desamuduru

During one of these incidents, he saves a person (Raja Ravindra) from goons while severely thrashing Murugan (Subbaraju), son of the notorious smuggler Tambi Durai (Pradeep Rawat).

Erik Josten

Atlas (Erik Stephan Josten), formerly Power Man, Smuggler and Goliath, is a fictional character, a supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe and a former member of the Thunderbolts.

Ernest Torrence

Filming for I Cover the Waterfront (1933), in which he starred as a smuggler opposite Claudette Colbert in New York, had just been completed when he died suddenly on May 15, 1933, at the relatively young age of 54.

Francis Heydt

In 1983, Heydt received further public attention when former CIA agent and explosives smuggler Edwin P. Wilson was charged with smuggling guns and 21 tons of C-4 plastic explosives to Libya.

Gary Krist

Gary Stephen Krist (born 1945), American kidnapper and drug smuggler

Giovanni Falcone

The Mafia was present in the area but quiescent; Tommaso Spadaro, a boy with whom he played ping-pong in the neighborhood Catholic Action recreation center, would later become a notorious Mafia smuggler and killer, but mafiosi were not a major presence in his childhood.

HIV/AIDS in Yunnan

--"the survival of the HIV/AIDS epidemic" doesn't make sense in English.--> One of the film’s protagonists, a pregnant black-market operative played by Lucy Liu, makes her living as a blood smuggler.

Kemerton

Significant buildings include the Church of St Nicholas, Kemerton Court, and Bell’s Castle, which was remodelled in the 19th-century for Edmund Bell, a reputed ex-smuggler.

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".

Laya Raki

In it Laya Raki starred as Halima, a Moroccan dancer and bartender, who is the partner of the title character, the bar owner and smuggler Richard Crane, played by Patrick Allen.

Leonid Minin

Nicolas Cage's character in the film Lord of War is a composite of Minin and suspected arms smuggler Viktor Bout.

Mark Twain Riverboat

Since the storyline takes place in the fictional town of Thunder Mesa, most of the spiel deals with the sights of Big Thunder Mountain, Phantom Manor, Wilderness Island, Smuggler's Cove, an old snoring fisherman, Yosemite National Park geysers, dinosaur remains ...

Matthew Duke

Matthew Edward Duke (d. 1960) an American pilot and smuggler who was gunned down in Cuba.

Moonfleet

In 1964, the BBC filmed a 6-episode TV adaptation under the title Smuggler's Bay, starring future Doctor Who stars Frazer Hines and Patrick Troughton as John Trenchard and Ratsey, respectively.

Mullion Cove

In 1801, the King's Pardon was offered to any smuggler giving information on the Mullion musket-men involved in a gunfight with the crew of HM Gun Vessel Hecate.

Nowhere on the Border

She pays a coyote (a people smuggler) named Don Rey to take her across the Sonoran Desert to join her husband.

Power Man

Erik Josten, a Marvel supervillain later known as Smuggler, Goliath and Atlas

R. Gopal

He has been jailed for withholding information about sandal wood smuggler Veerappan during Jayalalitha's chief ministership.

Sarkari Mehmaan

He single handedly captures and arrests notorious smuggler and criminal Jack Ranjit, who is sentenced to several years of jail.

Shing Mun Tunnels

The westerly pair passes through Ma Tsz Keng (Smuggler's Ridge) near Shing Mun Reservoir, where it gets its name from; the easterly pair passes through Cham Shan (Needle Hill) and is linked to the westerly pair by two viaducts over Lower Shing Mun Reservoir.

Sin Dejar Huella

In the film, Ana, a fake Mayan art smuggler, and Aurelia, a maquiladora worker, flee from Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua in Northern Mexico and those who pursue them to Cancún in the Yucatán peninsula province of Quintana Roo.

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.

Stanisław Radziwon

There he met smuggler who had been recommended to him and was led by him through the mountains to the outskirts of San Sebastian in Spain.

Tony Burke

Whilst in opposition, Burke led an unsuccessful bipartisan appeal for clemency to the Singapore High Commissioner to stop the execution of convicted Australian drug smuggler, Van Tuong Nguyen.

Umberto Ammaturo

He was related to Felice Malvento (his brother Antonio was married to Luisa Malvento), a cigarette smuggler with contacts to Sicilian mafiosi such as Tommaso Buscetta.

United States v. Fuentes

The case involved a Terry stop at an airport of a suspected drug smuggler, and his subsequent flight attempt from Drug Enforcement Administration agents that, along with other suspicious factors, did give the officers probable cause to arrest him.

Vinko Brešan

Reminiscent of Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, it explores the human complexities and moral murkiness of war through multiple perspectives and flashbacks surrounding the unintended murder of an alleged Serb smuggler by three Croatian soldiers returning from the front in Karlovac.

Voice in the Wind

Living under a new identity on the island of French-governed Guadalupe, Jan tries to recall his past life while working for crooked refugee-smuggler Angelo (Alexander Granach).

Z Picture Company

The company is based in Mumbai, India (Bombay) and its next upcoming venture is a film based on the notorious and famous smuggler "Veerappan" under Mr. Varma's guidance and will be directed by the writer of Sarkar Raj, Mr. Prashant Pandey


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