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  Frank Little - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Frank Little (1879-1917) joined the radical union the Industrial Workers of the World in 1906.
Little opposed World War I, and frequently spoke against it.
In 1917 Little was kidnapped from his hotel room, beaten, dragged behind a car, and lynched from a railroad trestle.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frank_Little   (98 words)

  
 The Great Shootoff...Frank Little vs Kay Ohye.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Little did anyone know that the shoot would really heat up on the nights of July 25th and 26th on the shootoff traps in front of the old clubhouse.
Frank Little was inducted into the ATA Hall of Fame in 1987.
Little died in 1993 at the age of 57.
www.traphof.org /ohye-vs-little-1987.htm   (998 words)

  
 Frank Little - A True American Hero | IWW Member Biographies: | Culture, History, and Library | Industrial Workers of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
On August 1, 1917, labor organizer Frank Little was taken forcibly from his boarding house in Butte, Montana, and was lynched from a railroad trestle.
Frank Little is an American hero, not for the great things he accomplished in his lifetime, but because he remained true to his revolutionary principles until the day he died.
Even though Frank Little was executed by six masked men in the wee hours of August 1, 1917, his ideas will live on as long as people remember him.
www.iww.org /culture/biography/FrankLittle1.shtml   (563 words)

  
 Frank Little   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Little first registered targets in 1958 and since 1963 has fired at a minimum of 4,500 of mixed ATA clays every year.
Frank is the only shooter to enter 15 yearly averages of 99% or more on a minimum of 2,500 singles targets.
Frank was also the doubles average leader in 1971 with.9666 on 1,350 clays.
www.traphof.org /featured-inductee/little-july-2003.htm   (304 words)

  
 Frank Little   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Frank Little, a Pennsylvania resident and former Chairman of the ATA Central Handicap Committee, has earned 31 ATA championships in three states, won 17 titles in two zones, captured 39 Grand American trophies, and been named to 23 ATA trap and three International All-America teams.
Frank broke 200 while winning the New York crowns in ‘68 and ‘70, the Indiana title in, 82, and the Pennsylvania championship in ‘86, making him one of eight shooters in ATA history to win four or more state titles with 200 straight.
Little was one of the group’s three to break 200 straight.
www.traphof.org /inductees/little_frank.htm   (884 words)

  
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Little argues that the evidence produced at trial was insufficient to support a conviction and violated his due process rights.}{\cs28\super \chftn {\footnote \pard\plain \s18\qj \fi720\li0\ri0\sa240\keep\widctlpar \tx1440\tqc\tx4320\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0 \fs22\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\cs28\super \chftn }{\~\~While Little appeals the judgment of conviction, he does not appeal the trial court\rquote s order denying dismissal of the criminal damage to property charge.
Little filed a post-trial motion to dismiss the criminal damage property count claiming there was insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the two televisions, the computer and the microwave oven belonged to another person and that Little had knowledge that t hese items belonged to another person.
Little contends there was no specific evidence of damage, just testimony that \'93stuff\'94 was broken which, in his view, is insufficient to sustain a conviction.
www.courts.state.wi.us /ca/opinions/04/04-0269.doc   (2502 words)

  
 Historic Montana Publishing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The body of Frank Little, a board member of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W., the “Wobblies”), is found hanging from a railroad trestle in Butte.
Frank Little poured gasoline on the fire with a speech on July 9, the Butte Miner reporting:
A frail man supporting the weight of his body with the aid of crutches [he was wearing a cast for a broken leg], his face contorted with physical pain and the passion which rocked his body, the speaker worked himself into a maniacal fury as he denounced the capitalists of every class and nationality.
historicmontana.com /HMPdayslittle.htm   (390 words)

  
 Little Obituaries
C E Little 64, Burns to Death at Tolosa Last Week Funeral rites were conducted at the Kings Cem in the Aley Community Thur afternoon for Cecil Everett Little, 64, who burned to death Wed morning at the home of his sister-in-law, Mrs Tom M Little.
Little was born June 10, 1867 near Ashville, TN, a son of Mr and Mrs John Little.
Mr Little was born in TN on 12/27/1873.
www.bjhughes.org /littleobit.html   (1643 words)

  
 8. WOBBLIES
gainst this troubled backdrop, Frank Little gave public speeches telling the miners that the war was a conflict that should be left to the capitalists who started it to finish.
Henry J. recounted the horrific tale to his son Malachy how Little was savagely beaten, dragged behind a car with a rope, and then hanged from a railroad trestle on city’s edge.
he lynching of Frank Little was in the context of extensive, protracted, and brutal repression levied against the “Wobblies” by Company gunmen, state and local vigilantes, and increasingly by the Federal Government.
www.fipacian.com /WOBBLIES.htm   (764 words)

  
 Frank Little - Bisbee Deportation 1917- UA Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
When the IWW called a strike at the Bisbee mines in June, 1917, Little counseled against it, finding it premature, but was overruled.
On August 1, Little was kidnapped and lynched in Butte, Montana by masked vigilantes; no one was ever arrested for the crime.
According to Big Bill Haywood, leader of the IWW, "Little was murdered because there is a strike in Butte, and he was helping to win it." Some sources alleged that documents found on his body showed him to be a detective, but that is generally thought to be unlikely.
digital.library.arizona.edu /bisbee/bios/little.html   (373 words)

  
 Gibraltar: Photos & Stories
Looks were deceiving, for Little was a fiery union organizer determined to infuse the faltering Butte strike with the passion of the Industrial Workers of the World.
Early in the morning of August 1st, less than two weeks after he arrived in Butte, Frank Little was dragged from his bed in a rooming house by six masked men.
The next morning, as workers crossed the trestle to begin their workday, the body of Frank Little was discovered with a sign around the neck.
www.kued.org /productions/fire/photos_stories/gibraltar.html   (1131 words)

  
 Frank Little   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Little was a strong opponent of the USA becoming involved in the First World War.
Little refused to back down on this issue and argued that: "the IWW is opposed to all wars, and we must use all our power to prevent the workers from joining the army."
Frank is one of the 94 I.W.W. men confined in a bull pen, 47 x 28 feet.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAlittleF.htm   (744 words)

  
 Bob Frank, A Little Gest of Robin Hood
Bob Frank is so invisible, when he looks in the mirror, he thinks they woke up the wrong guy." The visible tip of the iceberg of Frank's career was a eponymously titled, long out-of-print, Vanguard recording.
Frank eventually produced his own translation which remained filed away for nearly thirty years.
Frank sent his version in verse to Ohlgren who not only clarified certain nuances of the text, but also set him on the road to an academic conference on Robin Hood held in Canada in 2001.
www.greenmanreview.com /cd/cd_LittleGestofRobinHood.html   (643 words)

  
 June 8, 1992
Frank Little's friends and fellow workers remember him: "For his personal friends he had a strange and wonderful kindness and considerateness, and he was greatly beloved by them."  "Frank Little will become a tradition, one of the greatest traditions of the American movement."
The difference between Frank Little and his attackers is the difference between the baseness, cruelty, isolation, and mistrust that characterizes so much of our lives and the nobility, caring, and sacrifice that Frank Little epitomizes in his life and death.
Little also had article in the May 29, 1916, and June 3, 1916, issues of the Industrial Worker about organizing opportunities in general and in the lead and zinc mines of the Oklahoma, Kanasas, and Missouri Tri-State Region.
victorian.fortunecity.com /palace/400/little.htm   (4977 words)

  
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Frank glances at Jack and realises he should have left him in the kitchen with Jenny and the soup bone.
FRANK “But gee that place is cheap When I get back to my chilly old room I’m much to tired to sleep...” Jack looks at Frank like he’s insane.
THEO (reading a note) Little Frank refuses to ride his new bike unless the training wheels are removed, he's locked himself in the bathroom, and he has Cindy with him.
fabulousbakers.tripod.com /ab/bakerboys/fbb.txt   (14608 words)

  
 Don't Miss Frank Little When Studying Labor's Heros
But Frank was raised in Oklahoma next door, and I can't resist sharing the photo of his grave.
Little was killed on the same day that the Green Corn Rebellion began in Oklahoma.
I knew that Frank Little wanted the IWW to oppose WWI openly and that he lost the argument at the Executive Board on his last trip to Chicago.
victorian.fortunecity.com /palace/400/hist1935.htm   (2196 words)

  
 Little, Ross, and related families: VA - NC - AR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
William Little was involved in the "blank patent" affair by which hundreds of thousands of acres of land were illegally engrossed [Dictionary of NC Biography].
William Alfred LITTLE was born on 9 Aug 1876 in Sardis, Henderson Co. TN.
In the 1840 census, Rachel Little was listed on pg 77, with two adult males age 20-30 and two minor males and with three minor females and 1 female age 30 to 40, as well as herself age 50 to 60.
www.hal-pc.org /~happy/surname/b45.htm   (3832 words)

  
 Labor Sites in Butte, Montana -- Frank Little's Grave   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Frank Little came to Butte to persuade miners to join the One Big Union, the Industrial Workers of the World.
Little gave public speeches telling the miners that the Great War in Europe was a conflict that should be left to the capitalists who started it to finish.
These were not tolerant times in Montana and Little had picked the wrong time and place to incite dissent and to encourage what the Company- backed newspapers called acts of sedition.
www.butteamerica.com /flit.htm   (212 words)

  
 TrouserPress.com :: Frank Sidebottom
At first glance, Frank Sidebottom is just an idiotic soccer fan from Timperley (a town just outside Manchester) who performs inanely nasal renditions of popular songs — accompanying himself in various musical modes, from rock to acoustic piano to a rinkydink synthesizer approximation of '20s ragtime — while wearing an enormous painted papier-mƒché head.
But what Chris Sievey (former leader of the equally prolific punk-era Freshies) has done as Frank Sidebottom is so completely over the top, so singlemindedly weird, funny and charming that one has to marvel at the wit and intensity with which he pursues his bewildering career.
The second half of Frank's week didn't go so well; his follow-up extravaganza ran into legal difficulties regarding a Little Frank Christmas parody of the Beastie Boys' "Fight for Your Right" and wasn't issued until the following April.
www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=frank_sidebottom   (528 words)

  
 Denison University Football Media Notes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Little, 34, has several years of football coaching experience at various levels of the game.
Before that, Little was both an offensive and defensive line coach at Big Walnut High School for four seasons, and coached football in Fairbanks Schools prior to moving to Big Walnut.
A native of Columbus, Little was a center for four years at Ashland University, earning the Eagles' top offensive line honors as a senior.
www.denison.edu /athletics/fomedia/assistants/fl.html   (146 words)

  
 Frank Little   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Besides encouraging the miners to defy their employers, Little lashed out against U.S. involvement in World War I, arguing that the bloody fray was a capitalist conflict.
Born thirty-eight years earlier in Indian Territory, Little was raised by a Quaker father and Cherokee mother.
One of his fellow unionists observed that Little was "half White, half Indian, and all IWW." A dynamic, fearless man who wore his Stetson at a "jaunty angle," he traversed the country organizing farm hands, oilfield workers, lumberjacks, and miners.
www.rtis.com /reg/bcs/pol/touchstone/feb01/12work.htm   (415 words)

  
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Franks usual way of expressing himself is by making cover versions of famous songs replacing place names with Timperley and peoples names with his own or Little Frank.
Frank has had his own radio show, TV show and even had a column in Oink comic but lately things have been a bit quiet.
Tom At first glance, Frank Sidebottom is just an idiotic soccer fan from Timperley (a town just outside Manchester) who performs inanely nasal renditions of popular songs--accompanying himself in various musical modes, from rock to acoustic piano to a rinkydink synthesizer approximation of '20s ragtime--while wearing an enormous painted papier-mƒché head.
www.things.org /music/billy_bragg/digest_archives/v01.n1693   (1606 words)

  
 Frank Little -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Frank Little -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Frank Little (1879-1917) joined the radical union the (A former international labor union and radical labor movement in the United States; founded in Chicago in 1905 and dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism; its membership declined after World War I) Industrial Workers of the World in 1906.
Little opposed (A war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the central powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918) World War I, and frequently spoke against it.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fr/frank_little.htm   (135 words)

  
 Death comes to a walker: Shooting victim was a familiar sight on the streets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
When he wasn't biking around Pittsburgh, Frank Ogiri-Little could be found walking the city streets at all hours.
His father, Frank Little, is a former Pittsburgh attorney.
"Frank was the kind of person that total strangers would invite into their homes.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/04219/357491.stm   (715 words)

  
 FRANK ZAPPA Hot Rats reviews and MP3
Frank Zappa is the king of bluesy extended guitar solos.
Frank is one of the best musicians in this kind of field and this album really is a great jewel that he left us.
The other stand-out track on the album is the 17 minute Gumbo Variations, which starts with a sax solo (it grates a little but is still excellent), continues with a violin solo (sounding a bit like a guitar) and finishes with a guitar solo and a drum flurish at the end.
www.progarchives.com /Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=5330   (6026 words)

  
 AU Archives -- Guide to the Frank L. Little Reminiscences, RG 90
Biographical Sketch: Little, a native of Harris County, Georgia, graduated from Emory College in 1858 and was admitted to the bar in 1859.
Little's brother, Jacob Wilbur Fisk Little, was a student at East Alabama Male College (later Auburn University) from 1858 to 1861.
Volume I: Family record and notes made by Frank L. Little for his daughter, Mary Little, in 1908.
www.lib.auburn.edu /archive/find-aid/090.htm   (234 words)

  
 Frank Manning Little League   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Frank Manning Little League would like to extend a big THANK YOU to Jodie Hoover, Scot McGill and Galen Kaip for their efforts in improving the Cloudview fields prior to the District 36 Tournament.
If you are a long time supportor of Frank Manning and you have any information about the history of the league we would like to hear from you.
Frank Manning Little League will be holding its next Board Meeting on Wednesday, August 3rd at 5:30pm.
www.fmanningbaseball.com   (512 words)

  
 Frank Little: A True American Hero
Has an account of Frank Little in Duluth and a lot of praise of him.
Arnon Gutfeld, "The murder of Frank Little; Radical labor agitation in Butte, Montana, 1917.
Fred and Emma may have had two sons, and this is where the trail of Frank Little's writings and personal effects leaves off.
www.newhumanist.com /little.html   (1103 words)

  
 ORGANIZER 18
Tough and hard-fighting, Frank Little was a sworn foe of capitalism
Frank Little's murder was preceded, for example, by the "Loyalty League"
Frank Little's funeral at Butte was the largest ever held in Montana.
www.hunterbear.org /organizer_18.htm   (2276 words)

  
 CD Baby: BOB FRANK: A Little Gest of Robin Hood
What it is, is Bob Frank performing his version of the oldest and longest Robin Hood ballad in existence.
He translated it from Middle English into modern English, put his own tune to it (there wasn't any music for it that anybody knew of), memorized all 456 verses of it, and recorded it on digital equipment right there in the upstairs bedroom of his home, on Robin Hood Drive.
When it's finished, I'm a little startled to realized that I'm at home in my living room, not in medieval times listening to a ballad singer tell of Robin Hood's adventures.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/bobfrank2   (1822 words)

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