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  Captain George Streeter -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
After one such raid resulted in an arrest for assault with a deadly weapon, Streeter was acquitted on the grounds that buckshot was not considered deadly.
In cases in which police were injured by axe and gunfire, Streeter and his men were invariably found not guilty due to acting in self-defense.
Streeter's fight for what he considered his land continued until his death on January 24, 1921, although he and his second wife left Streeterville to move to East Chicago, (A state in midwestern United States) Indiana in 1918.
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 Micronation - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Hutt River Province Principality was the first manifestation of the phenomenon; it was founded in 1970, when Prince Leonard (born Leonard George Casley) declared his farming property independent after a dispute over wheat quotas.
At around the same time an eccentric anti-taxation campaigner named John Charlton Rudge founded the Duchy of Avram in western Tasmania; "His Grace the Duke of Avram" later went on to become an elected member of the Tasmanian Parliament.
In Victoria, a long-running dispute over flood damage to farm properties led to the creation of the Independent State of Rainbow Creek in the state's northeast by Tom Barnes in 1979, and mortgage foreclosure dispute led George and Stephanie Muirhead of Rockhampton, Queensland, to secede as the Principality of Marlborough in 1993.
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 Articles - January 22   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
1957 - The New York City "Mad Bomber," George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
1973 - George Foreman breaks Joe Frazier's professional career undefeated heavyweight world boxing champion status.
1921 - Captain George Streeter, American riverboat captain and circus owner (b.
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