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  List of kidnappings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Industrialist Baron Édouard-Jean Empain was kidnapped for ransom.
Yuri - She was going to be kidnapped, but the plans folded when one of the would be kidnappers left the criminal band that would have committed the act, and told her cousin about the plans.
Eric Peugeot, son of Raymond Peugeot, an automobile industry millionaire, was kidnapped at the age of four in 1960 in Paris.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_famous_kidnappings   (1746 words)

  
 Kidnapping - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kidnapping for ransom is almost nonexistent in the USA today, due in great part to the FBI's aggressive stance toward kidnapping.
Kidnapping can also take place in the case of deprogramming, a now rare practice to convince someone to give up his commitment to a new religious movement (called a cult or sect by critics) that the deprogrammer considers harmful.
Bride kidnapping is a term often applied more loosely, to include any bride physically 'abducted' against the will of her parents, even if she is willing to marry the 'abductor'.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kidnapping   (845 words)

  
 Kidnapping biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In criminal law, kidnapping is the taking away of a person against the person's will, usually to hold the person in false imprisonment (confinement without legal authority) for ransom or in furtherance of another crime.
In modern usage, kidnapping or abduction of a child is often called child stealing (the word "kidnapping" was originally "kid nabbing", in other words slang for "child stealing").
Kidnapping can also take place in the case of deprogramming, a now rare practice to convince someone to give up his commitment to a new religious movement (called a cult by critics) that the deprogrammer considers harmful.
kidnapping.biography.ms   (471 words)

  
 Talk:List of kidnappings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of modern kidnappings of celebrities' relatives, not a list of famous kidnappings.
He was kidnapped in 1858 at the age of 6.
Maybe now the redirect page list of famous kidnappings can be converted into an actual list of famous kidnappings.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:List_of_famous_kidnappings   (370 words)

  
 Famous Adoptees: Introduction
WHAT THIS LIST IS This is a biographical directory of famous and influential people who were either adopted or fostered, or raised at least for a while in institutions or by people other than their birth parents.
This list includes people who were formally adopted or fostered, and also people who as children were separated from their birth parents for significant periods of time.
The list tries to include people from all cultures and times, and I have been at pains to consider a person's influence on his or her own culture and time, rather than use the measure of whether I have heard of him or her.
www.dil.aber.ac.uk /dils/Research/RFocus9/staf_rrf.htm   (1287 words)

  
 special:allpaglist of coll   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
List of countries that have not abolished death penalty
List of famous gay, lesbian, or bisexual philosophers
List of famous gay, lesbian or bisexual composers
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 List of kidnappings
Vicente Fernandez - The famous Mexican singer's son, Vicente Fernandez Jr, was kidnapped and later released alive.
Thalia - The Mexican Diva's sister, the also famous actress Laura Zapata and another unidentified sister, were kidnapped.
Frank Sinatra's son was kidnapped, released after ransom was paid.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/list_of_kidnappings   (1127 words)

  
 List of modern kidnappings of celebrities' relatives - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Among the most famous of recent kidnappings of celebrities' relatives was that of Charles Lindbergh's son in the 1930s; he was later found dead.
His granddaughter Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the SLA in 1974.
Yuri (singer) She was going to be kidnapped, but the plans folded when one of the would be kidnappers left the criminal band that would have committed the act, and told her cousin about the plans.
www.infosearchpoint.com /display/List_of_famous_kidnappings   (758 words)

  
 List of kidnappings -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This is a list of ((law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment) kidnappings.
Beatriz Adriana - The Mexican actress's son was kidnapped and found dead in (A Mexican city just south of San Diego on the Lower California peninsula; popular among American tourists for racetracks and bullfights) Tijuana.
Vicente Fernandez - The famous (A native of inhabitant of Mexico) Mexican singer's son, Vicente Fernandez Jr., was kidnapped and later released alive.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/li/list_of_kidnappings.htm   (2282 words)

  
 Kidnapping Article, Kidnapping Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In criminal law, kidnapping is the taking away of a personagainst the person's will, usually to hold the person in false imprisonment (confinement without legalauthority) for ransom or in furtherance of another crime.
In modern usage, kidnapping or abduction of a child is oftencalled child stealing.
Kidnapping in ancient times, was a common means used to obtain slaves ; in more recenttimes, kidnapping in the form of shanghaiing men was used tosupply American merchant ships in the 19th century with sailors, whom the lawconsidered unfree labor.
www.anoca.org /person/false/kidnapping.html   (307 words)

  
 Chechnya War, History - Johnson's Russia List 12-12-02
When a thief is caught, he is taken to the temple of that village, where the Kadi and the tribal elders punish the guilty by relieving him of his own possessions and holdings, and then they exile him from the tribe forever.
But to the extent that domestic kidnappings are despised and rare among them, these same acts, when turned against their non-ally neighbors and Russian borderlands, are considered an honor." ["Rossiia i kavkaz: skvoz' dva stoletiia" [SPB: Zvezda, 2001): 9-10].
And in 1859, after the famous Chechen imami Shamil was captured, the Caucasus was subdued and included in the Russian empire.
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 Germany Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This famous university town is the ideal location to immerse in German language and culture.
Famous architects include neoclassicist Schinkel and Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus.
Germany is also well known for its many opera houses, the most famous of which being located in Bayreuth.
www.variedtastes.com /encyclopedia/Germany   (5930 words)

  
 List of reference tables   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
List of abbeys and priories: Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland
List of monasteries dissolved by Henry VIII of England
List of Judicial Committees of the Privy Council & House of Lords cases
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 Germany
In Germany, the [[German Confederation]] was founded, a loose league of [[List of German Confederation member states39 sovereign states]].
It is further subdivided into 439 districts (''[[List of German districtsKreise]]'') and cities (''kreisfreie Städte'') ([[2004]]).
Famous architects include [[neoclassicismneoclassicist]] [[Karl Friedrich SchinkelSchinkel]] and [[Walter GropiusGropius]], the founder of the [[Bauhaus]].
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 WizbangTech   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In the interest of honesty, my blog is listed twice under blogspot defectors, once as "ham fisted theatrics" and again as DC Pierson's weblog.
Glenn makes an honorary appearance in the Running List Of Blogspot Defectors, since he was on Blogspot for one whole day.
That list may or may not put me in a large group of the citizenry, I don't know and I'm not really interested in finding out.
www.aylwardfamily.com /content/200305archive001.asp   (9672 words)

  
 CrimeLibrary.com/Notorious Murders/Most Famous
Profile of famous veteran chief and investigator examines his accomplishments, his theories, and his most famous cases, including a real story that inspired the Hannibal Lector escape scene in the Silence of the Lambs.
Was this very famous playwright murdered because he was a spy, didn't pay his bar bill, or because he called Jesus and his disciples a group of promiscuous homosexuals?
Here are the stories of the most famous prisoners and their grandfatherly executioner, Robert G. Elliot, who carried out the death sentence on 387 men and women.
www.crimelibrary.com /notorious_murders/famous   (1616 words)

  
 List of famous kidnappings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This is because the criminals believe that celebrities have a lot of money to spend in order to random their loved ones.
This isn't a new crime: The first celebrity to have a relative kidnapped was Charles Lindbergh, whose son was kidnapped and then found dead.
The famous Mexican singer's son, Vicente Fernandez Jr.[?], was kidnapped and later released alive.
www.explainthis.info /li/list-of-famous-kidnappings.html   (727 words)

  
 List of reference tables   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
List of mean centers of U.S. population during the 20th century
List of the core beliefs of the Conservative Party of 2004
List of songs in which the title pretty much sums up the entire point of the whole song
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 Mortara, Edgardo -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In June 1858, when he was six or seven years old Papal gendarmes forcibly removed him from his birth family and he was then brought up by Christians in a monastery (one source says Pope Pius IX himself came to consider him his father).
Such kidnappings of secretly baptized Jewish children had many precedents in Italy, but this became the most notorious.
Kertzer, David I. The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara.
famous.adoption.com /famous/mortara-edgardo.html   (391 words)

  
 Prophecy In The News Articles List
Perhaps the most famous of these is manually-typed on paper that has apparently met the tests of historical experts.
It was being discovered for the first time that there were, in fact, "Close Encounters Of The Fourth Kind." These involved not only the sightings of lights in the sky, but close, personal encounters with the flying vehicles and their alien occupants.
Perhaps the most famous example of this phenomenon was the case of New Mexico highway patrolman Lonnie Zamora.
www.prophecyinthenews.com /articledetail.asp?Article_ID=11   (7901 words)

  
 Cops get serious on tourist kidnappings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
As a result, two detectives were dispatched from Windhoek on Tuesday to accompany Swiss tourists, Peter and Annelen Kress, back to the scene where they were threatened, kidnapped and robbed by an assailant at the Farm Otjihaenmaperero on Friday.
At the time when he kidnapped us, I felt he was a coward.
Even before the attacks on the tourists, the suspect had been on the Police's wanted list for theft and for terrorising people in the area.
www.namibian.com.na /2003/august/national/03EE92703B.html   (692 words)

  
 History of Roman Brady, Peeeepers Days of our Lives
One a drive to the country, the Famous wine goblets are purchased.
Roman is on this hunt, because unbeknownst to him, Ogden Vaughn, head of the ISA had kidnapped Marlena and forced him to find the bonds in exchange for Marlena.
Roman discovers the kidnapping to be fake, staged by Serena to gain Diana's inheritance through ransom.
www.geocities.com /TelevisionCity/Studio/3634/roman.html   (2640 words)

  
 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Encyclopedia : K : KI : KID : Kidnapping
In the past (and presently in some parts of the world), kidnapping was a common means used to obtain slaves; in more recent times, kidnapping in the form of shanghaiing men was used to supply American merchant ships in the 19th century with sailors, whom the law considered unfree labour.
Look up Kidnapping]] in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
www.hostingciamca.com /index.php?title=Kidnap   (523 words)

  
 UFO Folklore Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This list is a quick guide to the best of the wide range of UFO books.
A nice book by a famous Canadian compiler of Canadiana of short UFO accounts mostly in the words of the witnesses themselves.
Although I note you didnt compile the list of UFO literature, I wondered if you or Mr Rowell have heard of a brilliant New Zealand Author who is I believe still living in Auckland NZ.
www.qtm.net /~geibdan/newsb/books.html   (2481 words)

  
 Who's ho ?
José Happart (PS): became famous in the 80's as a Walloon leader in the Voeren-area, which is made up of six Flemish towns, which he believed, should be annexed to Wallonia.
Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the world famous Flemish baroque painter was the most renowned northern European artist of his day, and is now widely recognized as one of the foremost painters in Western art history.
Rik Van Looy, born in Grobbendonk, Belgium on 20 December 1932, is another one in the long list of famous Belgian cyclists.
www.fortunecity.com /meltingpot/malta/138/id24.htm   (8509 words)

  
 Poynter Online - Forums
You know your kidnapping is probably going to turn out alright when your abductors give you souvenir baseball caps to take home.
Adam Pletts, a British photographer, and myself were making one of our frequent trips to the Gaza Strip to see how the coastal Mediterranean region is faring now that the Israelis have officially ended their 38-years of military rule.
So before fading away into that long list of erstwhile Heraldites, there are a couple of things I would like to say.
www.poynter.org /forum?id=misc   (7423 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Among the kidnapped Battle Schoolers is Petra Arkanian, an Armenian tomboy who was the first older student that befriended Ender and recognized his innate skill for military tactics.
This is because the one responsible for the kidnappings is Achilles, Bean's nemesis from before he went to Battle School.
So enjoy the new "Lord of the Rings" movie: It is based on a much-loved novel by a famous Catholic writer, filmed by a now-famous New Zealand director, who was inspired by the screenplay of a less-famous LDS writer.
www.xmission.com /pub/lists/aml-list/archive/v01.n567   (6264 words)

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