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  Black Hand (blackmail) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Black Hand, or La Mano Nera in Italian, was a type of extortion racket.
The earliest Black Hand activities began in Sicily and throughout the Italian peninsula as early as the 1750s.
By 1900, Black Hand operations were firmly established in the Italian-American communities of major cities including New York, New Orleans, Chicago, and San Francisco.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black_Hand_(blackmail)   (446 words)

  
 Black Hand (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Black Hand (Palestine), a terrorist network created by Syrian-born Sheikh Izz Ad-Din El-Kassam (after whom the "military wing" of Hamas is named) in the British Mandate of Palestine.
Black Hand (comics), a fictional DC Comics supervillain.
Black Hand (Inheritance Trilogy), a fictional network of assassins loyal to King Galbatorix based in Surda who are responsible for many deaths in Surda and the Varden.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black_Hand_(disambiguation)   (283 words)

  
 ZNet Commentary: Why Black History Month?
On the other hand, fl social mobility, (or lack thereof) cannot be understood without understanding the devastating impact of not only two centuries of slavery but a hundred years of organized, state-supported attacks on “free” fl communities after slavery.
According to Tuskegee records, 41 percent of fl lynchings were for alleged feloni-ous assault; 19.2 percent for alleged rape; 6.1 percent for alleged attempted rape; 4.9 per-cent for alleged theft; 1.8 percent for alleged insults to white people; 22.7 percent for mis-cellaneous offenses; and 1.5 percent for no offense at all.
Black History Month is needed, not only as a foundation for the rootless, but as a serum for the historical amnesia that inflicts us all from time to time.
www.zmag.org /Sustainers/content/2002-02/17gonsalves.cfm   (1491 words)

  
 Other Race Relations Issues
Black rednecks and white liberals: Teachers are not supposed to correct fl youngsters who speak "fl English" and no one is supposed to be judgmental about the whole lifestyle of fl rednecks.
The gangsters themselves are largely fl, and Minneapolis's political culture is absorbed in a crusade against the reality that fls are arrested and incarcerated in numbers that substantially exceed their proportion in the general population.
Black journalists jeer peer: A conservative activist says that he was booed, jeered and called "the white man's boy" by a crowd of nearly 300 fl reporters and media figures for speaking against reparations at last week's annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists.
www.akdart.com /aff4.html   (7569 words)

  
 markgribben.com » Yes, We Have No Bananas
I call the Black Hand fictitious because while “it” did exist, of course, there was no organizational structure and most Black Handers operated on their own or in very loose groups of friends or families.
The Black Hand of Turn-of-the-Century America has nothing to do with the Black Hand, a Slav terrorist group active around World War I. That group was much more organized, but was political, not criminal, in nature.
Black Handers were extortionists, who using the threat of retaliation by the “group,” demanded payoffs from unsuspecting victims who believed that there was some sort of insidious secret faction that would violently react against those who refused to pay.
markgribben.com /?p=132   (1777 words)

  
 WHERE FREEDOM IS TREASON
The Sharpeville massacre of 1960, followed by a nation-wide upsurge of the fl people and massive repression by the regime - including the outlawing of African liberation movements, the declaration of a state of emergency, and the detention of thousands of people - aroused world opinion and heralded a new stage in the UN deliberations.
On the other hand, the liberation movements of South Africa were granted Observer status by UN organs in 1974 and recognised by the General Assembly in 1975 as the authentic representatives of the overwhelming majority of the people of the country.
The South African regime proceeded to flmail neighbouring African states with impunity in an effort to establish its hegemony in the whole region and undermine the liberation movements.
www.anc.org.za /un/reddy/struggle1.html   (3978 words)

  
 The Shadow The Black Hush by Maxwell Grant : Arthur's Classic Novels
INTENSE flness was suddenly ended by a bluish light that appeared in the corner of a fl-walled apartment.
A gloved hand drew the end of the wire to the bell box of a telephone that was set against the wall.
By hand, The Shadow had thwarted crime; by brain, he was seeking an explanation of the protection which had so effectively aided the burglars up to the time of his arrival.
arthursclassicnovels.com /arthurs/shadow/blakhs10.html   (19310 words)

  
 Rodney Article, Part Two   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
You know Aunt Jane died from Black lung(pneumoconiosis caused by long term inhalation of coal dust) or was it fl water fever (a severe, often fatal malaria with symptomatic excretion of blood in the urine) or was it fl vomit (vomit composed of bloody matter).
The Black Hand (a secret society engaged in acts of terrorism and flmail in early 20th century America) drove a Black Maria (a patrol wagon) collected fl money (income from illegal activities) while using a fl jack (a leather covered bludgeon).
I would prefer to tell a white lie than a fl one, be a white witch than a fl one, practice white magic rather than fl magic, be washed as white as snow than be as fl as sin, and live in a white house with a white picket fence.
www.wpunj.edu /cohss/sociology/soc399/rodney2.htm   (1215 words)

  
 [Bonobos] Why Black History Month?
A year later he was named editor of the association=92s scholarly quarterly, "The Journal of Negro History." Woodson believed the study of fl history, using the tools of scholarly research and writing, could serve a dual purpose.
It wasn=92t until after the civil rights movement of the 1960s that Black History Week was taken seriously outside of the educated fl community and expanded into Black History Month.
Besides, some fls were sold into slavery by fl Africans -- it=92s clear to anyone familiar with the history of white-skin privilege in America that Black History Month has not outlived its usefulness.
monkeyfist.com /pipermail/bonobos/Week-of-Mon-20020218/000710.html   (1351 words)

  
 Alloy films
Blackmail is the director's last and greatest silent film.
Blackmail is Hitchcock at his best, and with the help of Alloy Orchestra, a powerful evening of entertainment.
Faribanks is the Black Pirate who sets out to revenge the death of his father.
www.alloyorchestra.com /films.html   (1117 words)

  
 Brewster Lecture, 1988
The third took place in southern Africa a decade later, where fl and white freedom fighters were still struggling to decide the frontier between the European and the fl nationalist versions of African history.
What is certain is that all the various external backers of the white and fl freedom fighters in Rhodesia were finally prodding their clients into gambling their future on the election result.
The ending of Apartheid in Zimbabwe suggests that neither fl nor white can afford to pursue their racial ethics to the point of wrecking the South African economy, or there will be nothing but poverty and anarchy for anyone to inherit.
www.ecu.edu /history/brewster/bl88.htm   (8882 words)

  
 www.markdanner.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
If France had recognized fl rule in Saint Domingue, Napoleon wrote Talleyrand, then "the sceptre of the New World would sooner or later have fall into the hands of the fls." It was to be a war of counter-revolution.
The fl elite (with a few important exceptions) had largely collaborated, and in so doing had shown themselves to be traitors to their true allies; the fl masses -- the peasantry, who embodied in their daily lives the culture and religion of Africa.
They were illiterate fls, poor and wholly unsentimental; Duvalier, in raising them up to be Macoutes, had given them overwhelming power, for the first time in their lives, and they wielded it without pity, especially when it came to those elites who had theretofore despised them.
www.markdanner.com /newyorker/112789_Beyond_2_print.htm   (13119 words)

  
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The fumes of ammonia have formed the precipitate of fl, mercurous nitrate, a very distinct fl writing which is almost indelible.
Holding a thirty-two-calibre pistol in his right hand and aiming it at the target, Kennedy picked up a large piece of coarse homespun from the table and held it loosely over the muzzle of the gun.
So very little of the radiation escaped from the bowl that it was negligible--except at one point where there was an opening in the bottom of the bowl to allow the rays to pass freely through exactly on the spot on the patient where they were to be used.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/1/9/4/11949/11949.txt   (23274 words)

  
 MiSTed: "White Noise" and "The Sprite in Black"
You know, dressing all in fl, pretending to be vampires, writing bad poetry how crappy their life is between cashing checks from their parents.
Her fl hair was a little disheveled and > seemed to be cut short, but he didn't couldn't be sure.
She was with the > hands in the pockets of the overcoat.
www.c4vct.com /kym/slachash/funstuff/joshmist.htm   (9093 words)

  
 Vives
All attempts at stopping the Hand have ended in failure….with the help of numerous allies and Port Royals loose laws as cover, the Hand has been able to avoid all that seek to end their reign of terror.
The Hand is in the process of gaining more knowledge of this unknown force....they must be dealt with soon.
The Hand had grown much in the past weeks...with the raiding of the Fire Knives Guildhouse there were many cut throats and scoundrels looking for work.
vives.dyndns.org /vives/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=32049   (7471 words)

  
 A Long Hard Look at Psycho
The stripes were rods painted the 'colour' required, and pushed across by hand; however, they're so featureless, so flat-on, that they register as pure 'pattern', as non-representational forms, as abstractions.
Hands, eyes, embracings are all questing for the mind within the other, not focusing on their own sensations.
An unsympathetic spectator might suppose that s/he's being made a voyeur, but if you're half-identifying with either of the lovers, and half-sympathetic towards the other, the scene is about tactility, about palpability not just as 'sexual stimulus' (though a streak of that is there), but as communication.
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/02/20/durgnat_psycho.html   (6931 words)

  
 Abrreviated View of Movie Page
Lieutenant Joseph Petrosino, an Italian-American police detective, is assigned to a murder case involving the Black Hand Society.
Later, two Black Hand members flee the country, pursued to Sicily by Lieutenant Petrosino, who impresses the local police with his heroic methods of pursuit.
Eventually, however, Petrosino is killed by Black Hand assassins in Palermo.
www.afi.com /members/catalog/AbbrView.aspx?s=1&Movie=1785   (108 words)

  
 Magical Hack: Ninth Edition and Standard, by Sean McKeown - a Magic: the Gathering Standard / Type II article
Black loses Mind Sludge, but by all appearances the only person who bothered to play it was me, and “having” to choose Persecute or Cranial Extraction over it shouldn’t stifle anyone’s creativity or force a deck out of existence.
Sleight of Hand is kind of sad when it’s being touted as the best and most efficient Blue card drawing in the format, but at least for the moment it’s a lie.
Black offers us some interesting choices, with Blackmail coming back (and ready to sit next to Distress, giving us eight good and cheap discard spells) and the unexpected return of Hypnotic Specter, the man who was once too good for Extended...
www.starcitygames.com /php/news/article/10217.html   (5314 words)

  
 The Ultimate Black Hand (disambiguation) - American History Information Guide and Reference
The Ultimate Black Hand (disambiguation) - American History Information Guide and Reference
Black Hand, flmail practiced by gangsters of Camorra and Mafia.
Black Hand was the name of terrorist network created by Syrian-born Sheikh Izz Ad-Din El-Kassam (after whom the "military wing" of HAMAS is named) in the British Mandate of Palestine.
www.historymania.com /american_history/Black_Hand_(disambiguation)   (84 words)

  
 Cyberwar is Hell but never too hellish . . .   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Black Hands claimed they would attack secret military servers and also alleged that the same had already been withdrawn from the Net as a precaution against their attacks.
The second part of the Black Hand info-war plan is to carry lap-tops on the roads to Macedonia and Albania and, presumably, to offer their services as computer technicians ready for employment in NATO command centers, or to launch attacks from other countries:
As for attacking secret military computers, the Black Hand plan apparently disintegrated early (hackers have notoriously poor operational discipline), and the Serbian info-warriors chose to focus on spamming, to little effect, a public site at NATO in Brussells.
sun.soci.niu.edu /~crypt/other/deedle.htm   (491 words)

  
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I'm going to save analysis of cards rumored to be in the upcoming Black Hand set (like the ani+obf/ANI+OBF vote-granting combo card) for when we have definitive card text.
In the meantime, one of the three confirmed Black Hand preview cards is a new vampire for our clan — plus we have one new one from each of the Anarch and Camarilla sets to look at.
And even if they can prevent it, after the first time you slap a vampire for 6 damage before he gets to respond, you'll find your opponents suddenly start getting very nervous about being rushed or letting their vampires get low on blood.
www.white-wolf.com /VTES/newsletter/nosA200310.txt   (1675 words)

  
 AFS Italian Section
"Black Hand Sway in Italian New York." Literary Digest 47 (August 20, 1913): 308-310.
"Black Hand in Control of Italian New York." Outlook 104 (August 16, 1913): 857-65.
"The Black Hand and the Immigrant." Outlook 92 (July 31, 1909): 794-797.
www-personal.umich.edu /~acicala/socio.html   (4649 words)

  
 The Silent Bullet - The Black Hand
He is the man who organised the White Hand--an organisation which is trying to rid the Italian population of the Black Hand.
Of course over here he is too high-born to work with his hands on a railroad or in a trench, and not educated enough to work at anything else.
A crash followed as the door yielded, and the famous Paoli gang was in the hands of the law.
www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/mystery/TheSilentBullet/chap10.html   (6681 words)

  
 blackmail
flmail, in law, exaction of money from another by
Statutes often treat flmail as a form of
Black Hand - Black Hand, symbol and name for a criminal and terroristic secret society, and especially...
www.factmonster.com /ce6/society/A0807788.html   (146 words)

  
 Classic Movies : presented by ClassicMovies.COM
Roland West's first sound motion picture uses several new techniques first attributed to Alfred Hitchcock in Blackmail (dubbing of live dialogue, building subjective suspense by accenting a key phrase, using a chirping bird to distract, using sound to create an abstract rhythm).
It's a gripping story about a young cop-killer who marries the police chief's daughter to alibi the warehouse robbery he commits.
The remarkably impressionistic bank robbery scene is pure Lang, as is the fl-gloved hand snuffing out the candle, a happy borrowing from Metropolis." -William K. Everson.
www.classicmovies.com /cm/film_detail.asp?film_id=170   (220 words)

  
 Al-Ahram Weekly | Right above might   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
It will happen if the British raise a hand against you.' At the thought of our unarmed sons doing battle against the weaponry of British troops, and of the Egyptian losses sure to occur, I came to my senses and stopped still.
At the former, groups were openly discussing all sorts of seditious schemes, and a café I entered in front of the mosque, was full of plotters, many of whose faces were familiar as Government officials, discharged political prisoners, etc.
In scattered smaller groups money was being handed over by the Central Revolutionary Committee to stir up risings in the Provinces and to cut railways and other communications.
weekly.ahram.org.eg /1999/423/fo1.htm   (4682 words)

  
 "BLACK" - Written by a talented brother... Do enjoy reading this poem… Send it to a friend… "Black Poets"
"Black Heart" is a disease bringing "Black Death" to a tree.
A "Black Pope" is so offensive, to the religious Klan.
It also stated, "Black Face", is to imitate a negroe.
www.ctadams.com /soul1.html   (350 words)

  
 Kyle Theodore Knight - www.ezboard.com
Young Kyle was kidnapped by the Black Hand, to use in a scheme to flmail the Mist.
The elder Mist replied with a kindly smile and told her that he was proud of what she had accomplished and was merely bluffing.
Relieved Nash handed over the gun, with which her father promptly shot her.
pub24.ezboard.com /fskindexfrm42.showMessage?topicID=294.topic   (544 words)

  
 portland imc - 2005.02.05 - ILLUMINATI: Interview of Ex-Programmer/Trainer; History, Techniques, & Public Interfaces
Svali: "The Freemasons and the Illuminati are hand in glove.
A: The Freemasons and the Illuminati are hand in glove.
It meets in the fl forest region, which is considered the center of the earth, and a vortex for psychical/spiritual energy.
portland.indymedia.org /en/2005/02/310049.shtml   (17607 words)

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