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  The Great Train Robbery (1903)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The clerk at the train station is assaulted and left tied by four men, then they rob the train threatening the operator...
'The Great Train Robbery' is a simple enough story - a train is robbed, there is a shoot-out.
The interesting scenes for me were the ones where the passengers are held at gunpoint while their valuables are collected, the shoot-out with its hand-coloured bursts of gunfire, and the famous final shot where a gun is fired directly at the audience.
us.imdb.com /title/tt0000439   (313 words)

  
  1994 Patterns of Global Terrorism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Training in these camps focuses on tactics and techniques for conducting terrorist and insurgent operations, such as instruction on the use of sophisticated weapons, improvised explosives, boobytraps, and timing devices for bombs.
Although only a few thousand veterans of the Afghan Jihad, along with a few hundred newly trained militants, are actively engaged in insurgent or terrorist activity worldwide, they are often responsible for raising the level of sophistication and destructiveness of extremist operations.
The terrorist group PKK continues to train in the Bekaa Valley, and its leader, Abdullah Ocalan, resides at least part-time in Syria.
dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/arms/PGT_report/1994PGT.html   (20469 words)

  
 manyhighways.com: Riding Around America Archives
The train is relatively quiet today apart from the kids in front of me who are getting a little antsy to reach their destination: Meridian, MS.
They go to great pains to conceal any sort of human intervention which contributes to the feeling that these animals are in their natural environment.
The Amtrak trains of today are nice, but I would have loved to be able to ride the one on display at the museum when it was in operation.
www.manyhighways.com /riding_around_america/index.php   (18879 words)

  
 Carrots in the Movies and TV
Captain Carrot is a superhero who lives on the otherdimensional world of Earth-C, an alternate Earth populated by sentient animals.
At the beginning of the Captain Carrot series, he was referred to as "Roger Rabbit"; later in the series, "Rodney Rabbit" was usually used, to avoid legal issues involving the literary (and later film) character Roger Rabbit.
The absolute worst sub-titles notwithstanding, this is a great film because visually the story is clearly told (it is a remake of a silent picture by the same director).
www.carrotmuseum.co.uk /trivia4.html   (533 words)

  
 Direct Action # 36 · Spring/Summer 2006 · Solidarity Federation · IWA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
So the role of state education was to legitimisein the minds of the ‘slaves’ the legalised robbery by the ruling class, and to develop ‘skills’ for wage slavery and the temperament to work to instructions and to the clock.
This was dubbed by Hodgskin as ‘the training of cattle that are broken to the yoke’.
Great importance was attached by anarcho-syndicalism to culture and knowledge both as liberating forces and as instruments of struggle.
www.libcom.org.uk /hosted/sf/da/html/36.htm   (11305 words)

  
 Thoughts on National Strategy and Responsibility: July 2004 Archive
This should be combined with a carrot of normalizing relations with the West.
So if that is in the pacified area, great, but if it remains out in the cold as Allawi and others say now (and as I would guess from the news), then it is hard to see how a “national election” could be out.
When it collapsed in battle, we were told that these forces had not been sufficiently trained and that they had not been provided with enough weapons or body protection.
www.siteideas.net /Archive_04thr10.html   (19484 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The current Afghan regimewdeeply embroiled in its own struggle for survivalwhas been unable to control or eliminate the training of extremists on its territory or terrorist use of the camps as safehavens.
He still faces trial in two other caseswweapons and narcotics chargeswbut was released in September on "humanitarian" grounds after a reported hunger strike.
The HUA is based in Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, and is actively involved in supporting Muslims in Indian-controlled Kashmir with humanitarian and military assistance.
www.hri.org /docs/statedep/1995/95-04-30.std   (20549 words)

  
 The Lebanon War, Lebanese Civil War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
On the eve of the war in 1975 the military balance in the country was largely in favour of the PLO.
To add to the theatricality of the scene, convoys of cars with guns protruding from the windows, armoured vehicles and motorcycles would scream through the streets accompanying Arafat or Abu Iyad on their visits to politicians, foreign envoys, allied commanders of the revolution-ary forces.
With great urgency, a substantial number Lebanese Front troops were rushed by night from the Tal al Zaatar front to reinforce towns and villages in northern Lebanon in hopes of preventing a large-scale massacre of Christians by the leftists and PLO.
www.cedarland.org /war.html   (21117 words)

  
 rec.puzzles Archive (logic), part 25 of 35
He's spent all his money on the operation, so when the train (which has no internal lighting) goes through a tunnel he at first thinks he's gone blind again and almost decides to kill himself.
There are a carrot, a pile of pebbles, and a pipe lying together in the middle of a field.
A train pulls into a station, but none of the waiting passengers move.
www.faqs.org /faqs/puzzles/archive/logic/part4   (10068 words)

  
 NCW--Quotations for Writers
I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a claim that one is in control of what one recounts; I think someone who claims to understand but is obviously calk, someone who claims to write with emotion recollected in tranquility, is a fool and a liar.
The tragic wonder will then be great than if they happened of themselves or by accident; for even coincidences are most striking when they have an air of design.
However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
mockingbird.creighton.edu /NCW/quotes.htm   (17414 words)

  
 Situation Reports: Great Lakes, Humanitarian Update - Uganda, Volume III, Issue 5, Situation Reports: Sudan, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The programme further organised training on drought mitigation for 32 people including 20 women and KADP staff from the Matheniko and Tepeth office.
The training used both practical work and film shows as part of the training methodology.
Further, KADP conducted three social trainings for CAHWs and two technical training for 124 persons of whom 41 were women.
www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/628e22cf3b588256c1256a5e0052e67e   (5623 words)

  
 Farm & Country News
Once, nearly every farm property had a family living and working on it during daylight hours; long-time neighbours with their familiar vehicles, even their driving habits, were well known.
In a series of robberies in Perth, Huron and Middlesex counties, groups of three or four thieves entered as many houses as they could in one area over a couple of days, and also blitzed another area in one night before moving on, Alexander says.
The robbery at her house this fall turned her family's life upside down.
www.agpub.on.ca /text/div3_m12.htm   (4245 words)

  
 The Becker-Posner Blog: Crime Epidemics-BECKER
On first arriving I was told that since robbery and kidnapping are so rampant, it is not safe to go for walks, even in the best neighborhoods.
However, a much larger fraction of Mexicans do not bother to report burglaries, assaults, and most other crimes to the police (they do report car thefts since they want to collect the insurance on their cars) because they do not expect the police to do anything about it.
Their pay is now abysmally low in Mexico and many other countries, so that men and women attracted to becoming policemen expect to supplement their incomes by bribes and other corrupt acts.
www.becker-posner-blog.com /archives/2006/11/crime_epidemics.html   (4250 words)

  
 2004 Readers and Writers on the Air Summer Reading List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Great for cooks when it’s too hot to use the oven and you just want to sit on the porch and read about baking.
I like it, not only because it is well-told or because those were great events, but because of the way the values of civilization itself are implicit throughout the work.
A young clutzy boy with a quirky inventor father and a tomboy girl from the wrong side of the tracks travel with their friend who thinks he’s a robot to alternate realities next door to play baseball with fairies and giants and wolves and demons and save the universe.
www.northcountrypublicradio.org /programs/local/sumread04.html   (5408 words)

  
 Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc. (VCDL)
When asked if the robberies are related, Lt. Kurt Boshart, the department=EDs spokesman said: "We're not saying it is, and we're not saying it's not." By investigating each crime individually, police avoid jumping to conclusions and possibly missing leads, Boshart has said.
The great irony of the assault-weapon hysteria was that weapons that shoot fully automatic had been regulated since the 1930s.
The couple was arguing when Roderick Vecsey tossed the carrot, Damiani said=.." It is a scandal that thanks to the powerful Carrot Lobby (http://www.konky2000.com/Collections/Pen/100289/), Americans--even the mentally ill, convicted criminals and stalkers--are able to buy these dangerous weapons without so much as a license or background check.
www2.vcdl.org /cgi-bin/wspd_cgi.sh/vcdl/vadetail.html?RECID=958752&FILTER=   (4292 words)

  
 PAW April 7, 2004: Letter to the Editor
Not bad, but hardly up there with the likes of the train robbery, the admission of (nonexistent) William Oznot into the Class of 1969, or the antics of those wacky early Princetonians, who once brought a cow to the pulpit of the Chapel just before morning services, to protest mandatory attendance.
In his Perspective essay, Edwards, the secretary of his class, describes the train robbery, on Houseparties weekend, as a spirited last hurrah to Princeton and youth, as one last tweak at tradition before graduation, when students would join that traditional, real world.
In recounting the great train robbery, Edwards recalls a time of personal transition – those expectant moments between youth and adulthood, before the bonds of reality took hold.
www.princeton.edu /~paw/archive_new/PAW03-04/12-0407/editor.html   (556 words)

  
 The Scotsman - Act on green taxes now or the world will pay terrible price
His warnings - endorsed by the government - are at odds with the refusal of George Bush to commit the United States to the emission-curbing treaty, but they are so strong, the UK could be forced to deal with the incumbent president rather than waiting for his successor in 2008.
He added that the "great tragedy" was that Africa had played virtually no role in global warming, a problem, he said, caused by economic activity of rich, industrial countries.
Great idea, now the way I would set it up might differ slightly from the government's plans: Everybody can have two short haul flights and one long haul flight per year, for any further flights, the cost will be 10 times the normal cost.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=1601842006   (14472 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Mystery Train: DVD: Jim Jarmusch,Masatoshi Nagase,Youki Kudoh,Screamin' Jay Hawkins,Cinqué Lee,Rufus ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The name comes from the great bluesy recording Elvis made for Sun Records in 1955, but the stories of wandering tourists and lost souls drifting through Memphis come from the mind of Jarmusch.
Mystery Train is a study of people in the same place at the same time.
Johnny brings his two friends on a hazardous journey with the gun, which ends at the shabby hotel where the foreigners are spending their night.
www.amazon.com /Mystery-Train-Jim-Jarmusch/dp/0792844033   (2091 words)

  
 Topic for Discussion | TPMCafe
Dtrader: Rick Perlstein has a great piece in the London Review of Books on the centrality of the Hanoi Jane Fonda myth to the worldview of 'Nam dead-enders.
The 'great experiment', democracy, required constant input from the people to their elected representatives to carry out the mandate of the people.
Well, maybe it is and maybe it isn't, but for us folks looking in from the outside it appears that the Democratic party does not seem to be willing to kick their opponents in the balls after those same opponents just tried to gouge out their eyeballs.
www.tpmcafe.com /story/2005/11/19/192645/95   (14013 words)

  
 Train's speeches in England, on slavery and emancipation. Delivered in London, on March 12th, and 19th, 1862. Also ...
Train says America's mission is for white people—England's for fls—hence recommends Lord Shaftesbury to give his attention to Africa—as a wider field for his well-known philanthropy.
His great point was, that slavery was based on piracy, robbery, debauchery, and murder—hence it could have nothing to do with Christianity.
Train acknowledges—fell from the height he had raised himself in New England, by selling himself to the slave owners, and he compliments me by galvanising me into so important a personage, that a storm of indignation would reach me from Boston, as greeted him there on his arrival from Washington.—Now, Mr.
memory.loc.gov /rbc/rbaapc/30600/30600.sgm   (9671 words)

  
 cbs5.com - Toddler Killed By Train In San Jose
(CBS 5) SAN JOSE A toddler was hit by a train and killed in San Jose Monday morning, after he climbed out of his stroller to follow his babysitter across the tracks.
A police spokeswoman said when the babysitter walked back across the tracks to retrieve the stroller, the toddler followed the woman, without her knowledge, and was struck by the train and killed.
It is not clear which train hit the toddler, but investigators are talking to both Southern Pacific and Amtrak.
cbs5.com /local/local_story_325185147.html   (246 words)

  
 Oaxaca Articles
This was the panorama at the beginning of the Nineteenth Century when the Bell of Liberty began to peal and a great shout for independence rang throughout the land.
The mestizos and criollos now constituted a growing majority and they were no longer content to render unto Spain the benefits of their labor.
In 1876: Porfirio Díaz, the great Oaxacan general and hero of many battles during the intervention, became President and Dictator until the Revolution of 1910 which again threw the country into bitter conflict for more than twenty years.
www.oaxacalive.com /articles.htm   (8328 words)

  
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 The Epoch Times | Epoch Times Commentaries on the Communist Party - Part 9   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
As for China’s hosting of the 2008 Olympic Games, what was in reality an “olive branch” given by Western countries to encourage China to improve its human rights, the CCP uses to enhance its claims to legitimacy and to provide a pretext for suppressing the Chinese people.
China’s “great market potential,” which is sought after by foreign investors, stems from the capacity for consumption of China’s population of 1.3 billion.
After the Great Famine of the early 1960s, the CCP adopted the “Three-Freedom and One-Contract” (San Zi Yi Bao) program [15] aimed at restoring agricultural production, but without the intent to change the “slave” status of Chinese peasants.
www.theepochtimes.com /news/4-12-30/25242.html   (11817 words)

  
 The Great Carrot-Train Robbery (1969)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Bunny and Claude are still at their carrot caper.
This time, they rob a train as the Sheriff is once again called out to stop them...
The cartoon is utterly humorless, the bravest efforts for a joke fail miserably.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0064392   (421 words)

  
 The U.S. Army Professional Writing Collection
The lessons of regional strategies are confusing precisely because the proponents of the carrot or stick tend to abide by their preferred method despite the incomplete success or outright failure of both strategies.
Tarbiyya involves training and socialization, and, for militants, military information, strategy, rationalizations for violence, and a construction and glorification of jihad and jihadi history.
He and other EIJ members expressed their opposition to corruption, robbery, embezzlement, and bribery-it was common knowledge that members of the government were involved in such activities, and the EIJ held that the Egyptian government enforced or encouraged the physical display of women (tabarruj al-nisa').
www.army.mil /professionalwriting/volumes/volume4/april_2006/4_06_4.html   (17408 words)

  
 Preemptive Karma: February 2005 Archives
Bush voters took great offense at suggestions that they are stupid based on last year's PIPA survey of Bush and Kerry supporters perceptions of what the respective candidates actually advocate.
One is, to borrow the old "the carrot and the stick" analogy, that the Bush administration has all but thrown the carrot away.
Great, the U.N. is going to send troops to prevent U.N. troops from abusing women.
www.preemptivekarma.com /archives/2005/02/index.html   (17470 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Hour Game: Books: David Baldacci   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
There are two fascinating protagonists with great mutual chemistry, interesting secondary characters, an intriguing plot and a bevy of subplots.
However, Baldacci introduces so many characters of great import, and more of lesser standing, along with so many plots, subplots, potential plots and all sorts of motives, that I found it difficult to keep them all straight.
The robbery took place on the estate of the town's wealthiest and most formidable family, the Battle clan - Southern gothic at its best.
www.amazon.com /Hour-Game-David-Baldacci/dp/0446531081   (1988 words)

  
 Bonnie and Clyde Page 2 - Movie Tome
The movie that Bonnie and Clyde go to see after their botched bank robbery when C.W. Moss parallel parked their get away car was "Gold Diggers of 1933" (1933).
Anachronisms: As the gang leave a bank robbery in 1934, and 1940 Ford firetruck almost hits their getaway car.
The dry-land section of the Texas-Oklahoma boundary lies to the north and west of the Texas "Panhandle" which is quite far (about 200 miles at the least) from any of their known bank robberies.
www.movietome.com /movietome/servlet/MoviePage2/movieid-15194/Bonnie_and_Clyde   (2670 words)

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