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A Brief History of Seven Killings is the third novel by Jamaican author Marlon James. [1] It was published in 2014 by Riverhead Books. [2] The novel spans several decades and explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in Jamaica in 1976 and its aftermath, through the crack wars in New York City in the 1980s, and a changed Jamaica in the 1990s.
The killings resumed on January 28, 1974, with five more shootings; four were fatal. Tana Smith, 32, was shot on the sidewalk, only six blocks from her home. Ten minutes later, and eight blocks away, Vincent Wollin, 69, was shot twice in the back while digging through trash cans for items to repair and sell to supplement his Social Security ...
Rummel was born in 1932 in Cleveland, Ohio, to a family of German descent.A child of the Great Depression and World War II, he attended local public schools.Rummel received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts from the University of Hawaiʻi in 1959 and 1961, respectively, and his PhD in political science from Northwestern University in 1963.
The book's title is inspired by a statement in the Talmud: "If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first". [2] Based on a thousand interviews and thousands of documents, the book is the story of many political and intelligence figures [ 1 ] [ 2 ] such as agents of Mossad , Shin Bet , and the Israeli military , some of them speaking ...
Arrow Books. ISBN 0-0992-3311-8. McIntyre, Tommy (1988). Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: The Search for a Child Killer. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-1966-1. OCLC 17731672. Appelman, J. Reuben (2018). The Kill Jar: Obsession, Descent, and a Hunt for Detroit's Most Notorious Serial Killer. Gallery Books. ISBN 978-1507204023.
Two men have been convicted in a complex and deadly scheme that authorities described as "brutal revenge killings." Ending a four-week criminal trial, a federal jury found 26-year-old Malique ...
Adapted from the First Grand Constitution and Bylaws liner notes. [3]Secret Chiefs 3. Trevor Dunn – bass guitar, vocals (6, 14, 15); Danny Heifetz – drums, trombone, percussion
La Matanza (Spanish for 'The Massacre') refers to a large scale government killings in western El Salvador [190] [191] [192] following a communist-indigenous rebellion that took place between 22 and 25 January 1932. After the revolt was suppressed, which resulted in the deaths of 10,000 to 40,000 people.