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The book introduces his mother, Helen King, a feisty woman who raised her nine surviving children in the projects. The book often mentions Whitey Bulger, a gangster and FBI informant in Southie, who brought the drug trade into the neighborhood, contributing to the deaths of hundreds of young people leading to suicides, murders, and overdoses ...
South Boston (colloquially Southie) is a densely populated neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, located south and east of the Fort Point Channel and abutting Dorchester Bay. It has undergone several demographic transformations since being annexed to the city of Boston in 1804.
In Rock Band and Rock Band 2, Boston is a featured city that one's fictional band can play gigs in. In Assassin's Creed III, Boston features as a main city during the course of the game. In The Last of Us, some of the game is set in post-apocalyptic Boston. Nathan and Samuel Drake, characters from the Uncharted franchise, grew up in Boston
Boston is mentioned by Mikhail Lermontov in the final chapter of his novel A Hero of Our Time. Boston is briefly mentioned in Nikolai Gogol's literary classic Dead Souls, wherein the protagonist Chichikov is invited to play a game of Boston with a town official. Boston is also mentioned in Gogol's short story "The Nose" (1836).
She wrote two books on bridge that became best-sellers: Bid Better, Play Better and Winning Declarer Play first published in 1966 and 1969 respectively; each was reprinted several times. She was a contributing editor to several editions of the Official Encyclopedia of Bridge (Alan Truscott, Executive Editor) and wrote two books with Alan: Teach ...
Patrick Joseph Nee (born December 22, 1944) is an Irish-American former mobster and Irish republican sympathizer. A former member of the Mullen Gang and the Winter Hill Gang, he is a Vietnam War veteran, and author of A Criminal and an Irishman; The Inside Story of the Boston Mob-IRA Connection.
Hoyle's Official Book of Games: Volume 1 was the first card game simulator in the series, and a spiritual sequel to Sierra's Hi-Res Cribbage (1981). It included five multi-player card games and the Klondike variant of Solitaire (Patience). The Hoyle trademark and facecards were used under license from Brown & Bigelow Inc.