Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
Entrepreneur; founder of what is known today as AON Corporation Edmund Dick Taylor: Oct 18, 1804: Dec 4, 1891: Banker, railroad executive and entrepreneur; known as "father of the greenback" Charles H. Wacker: Aug 29, 1856: Oct 31, 1929: Businessman and philanthropist, director of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition: Born and lived in Chicago ...
De Liette divided his time from 1691 to 1705 between the Miami at Chicago and the Illinois at Fort St. Louis de Pimiteoui, Peoria, which he had helped build. In Chicago, he ran a trading post in partnership with François Daupin de la Forêt, Michel Accault, and Henri de Tonti [located probably near today's Tribune Tower] which he had to close ...
Vito Cascioferro (1862–1943), was a member of the Inglese Mafia family in Palermo, Sicily, and had fled to New York in 1900 to avoid a murder charge. James Colosimo (1877–1920), "crime czar in Chicago from about 1902 until his death, owner of plush brothels, saloons, and a nightclub." [16]
Saint Rosalie Interceding for the Plague–Stricken of Palermo, painting of Anthony van Dyck (1624), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Pantaenus (died 200 AD), theologian, saint; Agatha of Catania (231–251 AD), martyr and saint; Lucy of Syracuse (283–304 AD), martyr and saint; Saint Vitus (c. 290–c. 303 AD), martyr and saint
Chris Cimino - co-host of Today in New York on WNBC, the NBC affiliate in New York City; Kellyanne Conway - president and CEO of The Polling Company Inc./Woman Trend, and has been a political commentator on CNN, Fox News, and Fox Business; Anthony Cumia - "Anthony" of the Opie and Anthony show; Rick Francona - NBC military analyst
From his office in the Palace of Justice in Palermo, Sicily, he spent most of his professional life trying to overthrow the power of the Sicilian Mafia. After a long and distinguished career, culminating in the Maxi Trial in 1986–1987, on 19 July 1992, Borsellino was killed by a car bomb in Via D'Amelio , near his mother's house in Palermo.