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Allan Pinkerton (August 21, 1819 [1] – July 1, 1884) was a Scottish-American cooper, abolitionist, detective, and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the United States and his claim to have foiled a plot in 1861 to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln.
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John Pinkerton (17 February 1758 – 10 March 1826 [1]) was a Scottish antiquarian, cartographer, author, numismatist, historian, and early advocate of Germanic racial supremacy theory. He was born in Edinburgh , as one of three sons to James Pinkerton and Mary (nee Heron or Bowie) Pinkerton.
In 2023, Wizards of the Coast hired Pinkerton to seize products from the March of the Machine: The Aftermath card set for the trading card game Magic: The Gathering from YouTuber Dan Cannon of oldschoolmtg. Cannon had published a video on YouTube showing the contents of an order received ahead of the release date from a local game store. [42]
A trade card is a small card, similar to a visiting card, formerly distributed to advertise businesses. Larger than modern business cards, they could be rectangular or square, and often featured maps useful for locating a business in the days before house numbering. They first became popular at the end of the 17th century in Paris, Lyon and London.
Pinkerton Academy, a high school in Derry, New Hampshire; Pinkerton Lecture, an annual lecture named after computer designer John Pinkerton; Pinkerton syndrome, the perceived tendency of some Asians to regard white people as superior or more desirable; All pages with titles containing Pinkerton; All pages with titles beginning with Pinkerton