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In 1994, The Quiet American, an 800-page authorized biography of Wackenhut by John Minahan, was published. [6] George Wackenhut was known as a hard-line right-winger. He built up dossiers on Americans suspected of being Communists or left-leaning "subversives and sympathizers" and sold the information to interested parties.
It was founded as The Wackenhut Corporation in 1954, in Coral Gables, Florida, by George Wackenhut and three partners (all former FBI agents). In 2002, the company was acquired for $570 million by Danish corporation Group 4 Falck (itself then merged to form British company G4S in 2004). [ 1 ]
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Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. Many United States department store chains and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate mergers and acquisitions that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...
Managing crowds has long been a challenge at the Kumbh Mela festivals. In 2013, a stampede at a railway station left 42 people dead and 45 injured as thousands of pilgrims arrived for the festival.
Every so often we hear horrifying stories of modern day cannibalism. In 2012, a naked man attacked and ate the face of a homeless man in Miami.That same year, a Brazilian trio killed a woman and ...
Still, PB Max disappeared in the mid-’90s, and you can join others pining for a reboot on its Facebook fan page. eBay These balls of chocolate and caramel were a precursor of Milk Duds.
Kleinhans – a men's clothier in Buffalo, New York that operated from 1893 until 1992; Klopfenstein's – a men's clothier in the Seattle-Tacoma area founded in 1918 and in operation until 1992 [64] The Limited – filed for bankruptcy and liquidated in 2017. Its products became available again online after the brand was acquired by Sycamore ...