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(Encyclopedia) gang, group of people organized for a common purpose, often criminal. Gangs of criminals were long known on the American frontier and also flourished in urban settings. Notorious were…Gang Related
Director/Writer: Jim KoufDirector of Photography:Brian J. ReynoldsEditor:Todd RamsayMusic:Mickey HartProduction Designer:Charles BreenProducers:Brad Krevoy, Steve Stabler and John BertolliMGM…Brewer's: Ganges
(The) is so named from gang, the earth. Often called Gunga or Ganga. “Those who, through the curse, have fallen from heaven, having performed ablution in this stream, become free from sin…Brewer's: Gang-board
or Gang-way (g hard). The board or way made for the rowers to pass from stem to stern, and where the mast was laid when it was unshipped. Now it means the board with cleats or bars of wood…Brewer's: Gang-day
(g hard). The day in Rogation week when boys with the clergy and wardens used to gang round the parish to beat its bounds. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…bushrangers
(Encyclopedia) bushrangers, bandits who terrorized the bush country of Australia in the 19th cent. The first bushrangers (c.1806–44) were mainly escaped convicts who fled to the bush and organized…Gang of 14, 2005 News
a bipartisan group of senators, hammered out a last-minute compromise in May, averting the enactment of the so-called “nuclear option” by Republican senators. The change in procedures would have…Brewer's: Gang a-gley
(To). To go wrong (Scotch.) The best-laid schemes of mice and men Gang aft agley. Burns. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Gang-boardGanesa A B C D E F…Brown, Jim
(Encyclopedia) Brown, Jim (James Nathaniel Brown), 1936–2023, American football player, b. St. Simon Island, Ga. A football and lacrosse All-American…Thompson, William Hale
(Encyclopedia) Thompson, William Hale, 1869–1944, American politician, b. Boston. His family moved to Chicago when he was nine years old, and there he later entered politics as an alderman (1900–1902…Trending
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