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  • 41blackmail — 1. noun a) A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage. to levy blackmail… …

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  • 42Shottas — Infobox Film name = Shottas caption = Cover to a bootleg copy of Shottas (2002). director = Cess Silvera producer = Jennifer Farrell Wyclef Jean Randall Emmett Fabien Pruvot Cess Silvera Norman Silvera writer = Cess Silvera starring = Spragga… …

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  • 43List of characters in Grand Theft Auto III — A number of recurring characters appear in the video game Grand Theft Auto III . Prominent characters are listed here in rough order of appearance. The order in which some of these characters appear in game depends upon the sequence in which the… …

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  • 44Property crime — is a category of crime that includes, among other crimes, burglary, larceny, theft, motor vehicle theft, arson, shoplifting, and vandalism. Property crime only involves the taking of money or property, and does not involve force or threat of… …

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  • 45James Cosmano — James Sunny Jim Cosmano was a leader of the Black Hand street gang in pre Prohibition Chicago who tried to extort money from the mob.Early yearsBorn Vincenzo Cosmano , he joined the Black Hand as a young man. Cosmano and other Black Handers, such …

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  • 46squeeze — [[t]skwiz[/t]] v. squeezed, squeez•ing, n. 1) to press forcibly together; compress 2) to apply pressure to in order to extract juice, sap, or the like: to squeeze an orange[/ex] 3) to force out, extract, or procure by pressure 4) to force or… …

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  • 47Advance-fee fraud — African sting An advance fee fraud is a confidence trick in which the target is persuaded to advance sums of money in the hope of realizing a significantly larger gain.[1] Among the variations on this type of scam are the Nigerian Letter (also… …

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  • 48List of confidence tricks — This list of confidence tricks and scams should not be considered complete, but covers the most common examples. Confidence tricks and scams are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type.… …

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  • 49List of Grand Theft Auto IV characters — A number of recurring characters appear in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV, set in 2008. The characters that appear in Grand Theft Auto IV are relatively diverse and relative to the respective boroughs of Liberty City they are based in,… …

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  • 50Les Misérables — This article is about the novel. For the musical theatre adaptation, see Les Misérables (musical). For other uses, see Les Misérables (disambiguation). Les Misérables   …

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