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Walter Stevens (gangster)
Walter Stevens (1877–1931) was a freelance ''Freelance'' (sometimes spelled ''free-lance'' or ''free lance''), ''freelancer'', or ''freelance worker'', are terms commonly used for a person who is self-employed and not necessarily committed to a particular employer long-term. Freelance w ... enforcer and " hitman", popularly known as "dean of the Chicago gunmen", during Prohibition. Although having the reputation of a violent gangster, credited with the deaths of at least 60 men, Stevens was a devoted husband to an invalid wife and his three adopted children. Stevens was uncharacteristically cultured compared to his fellow gangsters, refraining from drinking and reportedly quoting classical literature from authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson and poet Robert Burns. A long-time Chicago gangster, Stevens first gained prominence as a labor slugger, alternating between labor racketeer Maurice EnMaurice "Mossy" Enright and other rivals, often committing assault and murder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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N, or n, is the fourteenth Letter (alphabet), letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is English alphabet#Letter names, ''en'' (pronounced ), plural ''ens''. History One of the most common Egyptian hieroglyphs, hieroglyphs, snake, was used in Egyptian language, Egyptian writing to stand for a sound like the English , because the Egyptian word for "snake" was ''djet''. It is speculated by many that Semitic people working in Egypt adapted hieroglyphics to create the first alphabet, and that they used the same snake symbol to represent N, because their word for "snake" may have begun with that sound. However, the name for the letter in the Phoenician alphabet, Phoenician, Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic alphabet, Arabic alphabets is ''Nun (letter), nun'', which means "fish" in some of these languages. The sound value of the letter was —as in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
