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Dead Man's Flats is a hamlet within the Municipal District of Bighorn No. 8. [3] Statistics Canada also recognizes it as a designated place under the name of Pigeon Mountain . [ 4 ] It is located within Alberta's Rockies at Highway 1 exit 98, approximately 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) southeast of Canmore [ 5 ] and 78 kilometres (48 mi) west of Calgary .
Elmer J. McCurdy (January 1, 1880 – October 7, 1911) was an American outlaw who was killed in a shoot-out with police after robbing a train in Oklahoma in October 1911. . Dubbed "The Bandit Who Wouldn't Give Up", his mummified body was first put on display at an Oklahoma funeral home and then became a fixture on the traveling carnival and sideshow circuit during the 1920s through the 1
The plaques (which could be described as large plaquettes) about 120 mm (4.7 in) in diameter, were cast in bronze, and came to be known as the Dead Man's Penny or Widow's Penny because of the superficial similarity to the much smaller penny coin (which had a diameter of only 30.86 mm (1.215 in)). 1,355,000 plaques were issued, which used a ...
Sister Helen Prejean published a book, Dead Man Walking (1993), about her relationship with Elmo Sonnier and Robert Lee Willie, another inmate on death row whom she counseled. The book was adapted as a 1995 film of the same name directed by Tim Robbins and starring Susan Sarandon as Sister Prejean and Sean Penn as Matthew Poncelet, an amalgam ...
Then something incriminating is found in the dead man's flat, and Brunetti becomes convinced that somebody is taking great pains to provide an easy solution to the crime. When he uncovers collusion between U.S. bases abroad and international business interests involved in toxic waste disposal, he exposes the sinister face of the military ...
Dead man or Dead Man may refer to: Someone who is dead (man or woman) Dead Man, a 1995 film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch Dead Man, a soundtrack album for the 1995 film by Neil Young; The Dead Man, a 1989 comic strip in 2000 AD "The Dead Man" (short story), a 1946 short story by Jorge Luis Borges
Dead Man's Folly is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in October 1956 [1] and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 5 November of the same year. [2] The US edition retailed at $2.95 [1] and the UK edition at twelve shillings and sixpence (12/6). [2] It features Hercule Poirot ...
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