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"The Napoleon of crime"

In 1862, Adam Worth listed as "dead, he was now free to enlist once more and to claim another bounty. Like many others he got a taste for it, taking the money, deserting, re-enlisting again in another unit under another name. In the words of George Bernard Shaw, "The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is." "The words refined and gaudy, by all practical standards, contrast. But, somewhere between the ether of the two words there is a fine line that, when the words blend across that line, a rarity is created. This specimen is one of color but with an ability to control that color to his/her advantage; to sip of the grapes of life with a celebratory vigor and vim and always emanate what the Parisians call en elegance." In 1876, he stlole Gainsborough' Georgiana, the Duchess of Devonshire from JP Morgan's father. it wasn't until 1901 that the portrait was returned brokered through Pinkerton. "He nicknamed Worth 'the Napoleon of Crime.' Called Adam Worth, Alias 'Little Adam' by the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, you can read it here. 'A Master Thief, Irish Hostess, English Duchess, and the Origins Pan Am.'

"BEEN DOING COWBOY SH!T ALL DAY"

"The Wild West looms large in the American psyche, so it's no surprise it plays a prominent role in the stories we tell in film and television. But there's one writer who's been able to take the essence of the Old West and modernize it for today's savvy audience:" 'How Taylor Sheridan is redefining the Western genre'. 'But the show's (Yellowstone) focus on white-male resentment hardly distinguishes it from other prestige fare โ€” sure, Yellowstone is about mad men, but so was Mad Men.' from: ' How the Cowboy was Colonized'
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