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Crooks And Credulous
Crook is another name for criminal. Crook or Crooks may also refer to: Places * Crook, County Durham, England, a town * Crook, Cumbria, England, village and civil parish * Crook Hill, Derbyshire, England * Crook, Colorado, United States, a Statutory Town * Crook Township, Hamilton County, Illinois, United States * Crooks Township, Renville County, Minnesota, United States * Crook, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Crook County, Oregon, United States * Crook County, Wyoming, United States * Crook City, South Dakota, United States, a populated place also known as Crook * Crooks, South Dakota, United States, a city * Crook National Forest, Arizona, United States, divided into three other national forests in 1953 * Crook Glacier, Oregon, United States * Crooks Mound, an archaeological site in Louisiana, United States * Crooks Inlet, Nunavut, Canada * Fort Crook (other) Surnames * Crook (surname) * Crooks (surname) Films * ''The Crook'', English title of ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Criminal
In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority. The term ''crime'' does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition,Farmer, Lindsay: "Crime, definitions of", in Cane and Conoghan (editors), ''The New Oxford Companion to Law'', Oxford University Press, 2008 (), p. 263Google Books). though statutory definitions have been provided for certain purposes. The most popular view is that crime is a category created by law; in other words, something is a crime if declared as such by the relevant and applicable law. One proposed definition is that a crime or offence (or criminal offence) is an act harmful not only to some individual but also to a community, society, or the state ("a public wrong"). Such acts are forbidden and punishable by law. The notion that acts such as murder, rape, and theft are to be prohibited exists worldwide. What precisely is a criminal offence is defined by the criminal law of each r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crook (surname)
Crook is an Old Norse surname. Notable people with the surname include: * A. R. Crook (1864–1930), American geologist * Al Crook (''Alfred John Crook''; 1897–1958), American football player * Alan Crook (1897–1965), Australian electrical engineer * Andrew Crook (born 1980), Australian cricketer *Anna Crook (born 1934), American politician, member of the New Mexico House of Representatives (1995–2015) * Billy Crook (other) *Carl Crook (born 1963), English amateur lightweight and professional light/light welterweight boxer * Catherine Crook de Camp (1907–2000), American science fiction author * Charles Crook (1862–1926), English teacher, trade union official and politician, Member of Parliament (1922–1923, 1924–1926) *Clive Crook (born 1953), English columnist, editor and author * Eddie Crook Jr. (1929–2005), American boxer *David Crook (1910–2000), British Marxist *David Moore Crook (1914–1944), British fighter pilot *Elizabeth Crook (born 1959), America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crook Inn
The Crook Inn is an inn in the Scottish Borders, near the village of Tweedsmuir on the A701 road between Broughton and Moffat. It is one of many claimants to be the oldest inn in Scotland. It was licensed in 1604. Robert Burns wrote "Willie Wastle's Wife" there. It has served as a coaching inn, a Post Office and source of employment. In the early 20th century a halt was built on the Talla Railway to serve it. The inn attracted much passing trade from the labourers who were building the Talla Reservoir, which the railway was built to serve. The hotel was refurbished in 1936 in the then-current Art Deco style, and retains many of the features installed at that time. It has also, over the years, become a place of pilgrimage for members of the Porteous family, visiting the site of nearby Hawkshaw, their former ancestral home on the hills above Tweeddale and the Fruid Reservoir Fruid is a small reservoir in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, UK, near Menzion. It is forme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crook Hall
Crook Hall, sited near Lanchester, County Durham, some north west of the city of Durham, was one of two Roman Catholic seminaries which temporarily replaced the Douai seminary in Douai, France when that college was suppressed soon after the French Revolution. Crook Hall was itself superseded after a few years by Ushaw College. History The hall had belonged to the Baker family since 1635, when it was purchased by George Baker, Knt., the second son of Oswald Baker of Durham. George Baker served as a recorder of Newcastle-on-Tyne and was a defender of that town for King Charles. His son George inherited the estate in 1667. George Baker MP, grandson of the original owner and member of parliament for Durham City, remodelled the house in 1716. When the Douai Catholic seminary closed in 1793 the students were hastily brought back to England with the intention of creating a new seminary there. The refugee students were divided into two groups, one of which (mainly composed of stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baron Crook
Baron Crook, of Carshalton in the County of Surrey, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 3 July 1947 for Reginald Crook, later Chairman of the National Dock Labour Board. the title is held by his grandson, the third Baron, who succeeded his father in 2001. Barons Crook (1947) * Reginald Douglas Crook, 1st Baron Crook (1901–1989) * Douglas Edwin Crook, 2nd Baron Crook (1926–2001) * Robert Douglas Edwin Crook, 3rd Baron Crook (b. 1955) The heir apparent An heir apparent, often shortened to heir, is a person who is first in an order of succession and cannot be displaced from inheriting by the birth of another person; a person who is first in the order of succession but can be displaced by the b ... is the present holder's son Hon. Matthew Robert Crook (b. 1990) Arms References *Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Crook Baroni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devon Hedge
A Devon hedge, also known as a Devon hedgebank, consist of a rubble or earth bank that is usually topped with bushy shrubs forming a hedgerow, with trees also being a frequent and noticeable feature.Devon's Hedges (1997), p.1. The bank may be faced with turf or stone. History Attention to Devon hedges as a feature worth investigating was raised by Clement Pike in the 1925 volume of the ''Transactions of the Devonshire Association''. Writing about the patchwork of fields visible from Whitchurch Down, near Tavistock on the western fringe of Dartmoor, he noted: A quarter of Devon's hedges are now thought to be over 800 years old. The Devon Hedge on the |
Shepherd's Crook
A shepherd's crook is a long and sturdy stick with a hook at one end, often with the point flared outwards, used by a shepherd to manage and sometimes catch sheep. In addition, the crook may aid in defending against attack by predators. When traversing rough terrain, a crook is an aid to balance. Shepherds may also use the long implement to part thick undergrowth (for example at the edge of a drovers' road) when searching for lost sheep or potential predators. Symbolic use The innovation of a hook facilitates the recovery of fallen animals by ensnaring them by the neck or leg. For this reason the crook has been used as a religious symbol of care (particularly in difficult circumstances), including the Christian bishop's crosier. In medicine, the term shepherd’s crook is used to describe a right coronary artery that follows an unusually high and winding route. This variant, which has a prevalence of about 5%, imposes technical problems in angioplasty procedures. The lett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crozier
A crosier or crozier (also known as a paterissa, pastoral staff, or bishop's staff) is a stylized staff that is a symbol of the governing office of a bishop or abbot and is carried by high-ranking prelates of Roman Catholic, Eastern Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and some Anglican, Lutheran, United Methodist and Pentecostal churches. In Western Christianity the usual form has been a shepherd's crook, curved at the top to enable animals to be hooked. In Eastern Christianity, it is found in two common forms: tau-shaped, with curved arms, surmounted by a small cross; or a pair of sculptured serpents or dragons curled back to face each other, with a small cross between them. Other typical insignia of prelates are the mitre, the pectoral cross, and the episcopal ring. History The origin of the crozier as a staff of authority is uncertain, but there were many secular and religious precedents in the ancient world. One example is the lituus, the traditional staf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crook (music)
A crook, also sometimes called a shank, is an exchangeable segment of tubing in a natural horn (or other brass instrument, such as a natural trumpet) which is used to change the length of the pipe, altering the fundamental pitch and harmonic series which the instrument can sound, and thus the key in which it plays.Apel, pp. 392, 926. Master crook and coupler system Early horns had unalterable lengths and permanently attached mouthpieces. This presented problems in concert situations. A different horn was required for different keys, and the instrument could not be tuned. Around 1700 the Leichnamschneider brothers in Vienna developed a horn with a removable mouthpiece that could be connected to a short piece of tubing, called a master crook. Additional pieces, couplers, of different lengths were inserted between the master crook and the body of the horn to change the horn's length, and thus the pitch. Fine-tuning was done with even shorter segments called tuning bits. This simple a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bocal
A bocal is a curved, tapered tube, which is an integral part of certain woodwind instruments, including double reed instruments such as the bassoon, contrabassoon, English horn, and oboe d'amore, as well as the larger recorders. In the double reed instruments, the bocal connects the reed to the rest of the instrument; in the case of larger recorders, the bocal directs air from the player's mouth to the fipple. Bocals can be made from a variety of metals, including nickel silver, brass, sterling silver, or even gold, and are covered at the lower end with a cork sleeve, allowing the bocal to fit tightly in the socket at the top of the instrument. More recently, at least one maker is producing bocals made of hardwood.{{cite web, url=http://www.robertronnes.com/paraschos.bassoonbocal.html, title=Paraschos Bassoon Bocal, website=robertronnes.com, archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071230111246/http://www.robertronnes.com/paraschos.bassoonbocal.html, archivedate=2007-12-30 The reed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Austrian Films Of The 2000s
A list of films produced in the Cinema of Austria in the 2000s decade ordered by year of release. For an alphabetical list of articles on Austrian films see :Austrian films. In cases of international co-productions, films in the making of which an Austrian studio was the majority partner (with a foreign film studio as a co-producer with a minority interest) are indicated by "''(maj.)''" in the "Notes" column. Films in the making of which an Austrian studio was the minority partner (with a foreign film studio as a co-producer with a majority interest) are indicated by "''(min.)''" in the "Notes" column. The dates in parentheses are the start dates of film runs in Austrian cinemas. 2000–2003 2004 In 2004, 24 Austrian films were produced either as solely Austrian productions, or with an Austrian majority interest and opened in the cinemas. 16 were feature films and 8 were documentary films. A further 8 films were produced with an Austrian minority production interest, 7 o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
C(r)ook
C, or c, is the third letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''cee'' (pronounced ), plural ''cees''. History "C" comes from the same letter as "G". The Semites named it gimel. The sign is possibly adapted from an Egyptian hieroglyph for a staff sling, which may have been the meaning of the name ''gimel''. Another possibility is that it depicted a camel, the Semitic name for which was ''gamal''. Barry B. Powell, a specialist in the history of writing, states "It is hard to imagine how gimel = "camel" can be derived from the picture of a camel (it may show his hump, or his head and neck!)". In the Etruscan language, plosive consonants had no contrastive voicing, so the Greek ' Γ' (Gamma) was adopted into the Etruscan alphabet to represent . Already in the Western Greek alphabet, Gamma first took a '' form in Early Etruscan, then '' in Classical E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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