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"Kid Dropper" Nathan Caplin or Kaplan (August 3, 1891 – August 28, 1923), also known as Jack the Dropper, was an American gangster who controlled labor racketeering and extortion in New York City during the post-World War I period into the early years of Prohibition in the early 1920s.
Louis Cohen (Born Louis Kushner alias “Louis Kerzner” January 1, 1904 – January 28, 1939) was a New York mobster who murdered labor racketeer "Kid Dropper" Nathan Kaplan and was an associate of labor racketeer Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. [1] He was killed along with Isadore Friedman, another Buchalter associate, who was believed to be an ...
The Giant Drop at Dreamworld The High Fall at Movie Park Germany A drop tower at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk entitled the "Double Shot" Sky Ranch Philippines. A drop tower is a type of amusement park ride incorporating a central tower structure with one or more gondolas attached.
The Dropper is the 2000 sixth studio album by avant-jazz-funk organ trio Medeski, Martin & Wood. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The album peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart.
The Dropa [1] stones are purported pseudoarcheological artifacts. They are claimed to be a series of 12,000-year old granite discs with inscribed markings that represent an account of an extraterrestrial crash landing on Earth.
A post on X claimed that a Romanian court dismissed all criminal charges against social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate. Verdict: False The full case against the two was not dismissed.
Polari, a jargon that began in European ports and evolved into a shorthand used in gay subcultures, influences much of today's slang in words like "zhuzh," "drag," "camp" and "femme."
The drop swindle was a confidence trick commonly used during the 19th and 20th centuries. Employing a variety of techniques the con usually consists of the "dropper", who purposely drops a wallet containing counterfeit money near a potential victim.