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  2. Hatchet (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Hatchet is a 1987 young-adult wilderness survival novel written by American writer Gary Paulsen. [1] It is the first novel of five in the Hatchet series. Other novels in the series include The River (1991), Brian's Winter (1996), Brian's Return (1999) and Brian's Hunt (2003). [ 2 ]

  3. List of types of fraud - Wikipedia

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    Review Fraud – Alex Copola Podgor, Ellen S. Criminal Fraud, (1999) Vol, 48, No. 4 American Law Review 1. The Nature, Extent and Economic Impact of Fraud in the UK. February, 2007. The Fraudsters – How Con Artists Steal Your Money. ISBN 978-1-903582-82-4 by Eamon Dillon, published September 2008 by Merlin Publishing; Zhang, Yingyu.

  4. List of Ponzi schemes - Wikipedia

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    Jacob Young, William Abrams, and Nancy Clem ran what author Wendy Gamber argues, in her book The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age, was the first-ever Ponzi scheme. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In Munich, Germany, Adele Spitzeder founded the Spitzedersche Privatbank in 1869, promising an interest rate of 10 percent per month.

  5. List of fraudsters - Wikipedia

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    Elizabeth Holmes, convicted of 4 counts of felony fraud in January 2022 – three counts of wire fraud, and one of conspiracy to commit wire fraud for misleading investors on the biotech company Theranos, a diagnostics company claiming to be able to perform multianalyte clinical chemistry using unsound liquid-handling tech. Company results were ...

  6. Betrayers of the Truth - Wikipedia

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    Betrayers of the Truth: Fraud and Deceit in the Halls of Science is a book by William Broad and Nicholas Wade, published in 1982 by Simon & Schuster in New York, and subsequently (1983) also by Century Publishing in London, and with a simplified subtitle as Betrayers of the Truth: Fraud and Deceit in Science by Oxford University Press in 1985.

  7. Is 'Sou-Sou' for You? Africa's Savings Pool Scheme Lands in ...

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    The idea's called a "sou-sou," and while it may be unfamiliar here, the concept's actually pretty old hat in some countries of West Africa. It works like this: Say John wants to buy himself a ...

  8. The Hatchet - Wikipedia

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    The Hatchet (orig. Romanian: Baltagul) is a 1930 crime novel that was written by Mihail Sadoveanu. The novel's main character is Vitoria Lipan, the wife of a shepherd living in the Moldavian village Măgura Tarcăului. Vitoria has a premonition her husband Nechifor, who has gone to the town Dorna to buy more sheep, has died.

  9. Heinemann African Writers Series - Wikipedia

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    [5] [4] [6] [1] 1961 – Van Milne originates the idea of the African Writers Series. Hill explains that the plan was "to start a paperback series, confined to black African authors; the books were to be attractively designed with high quality production, and sold at a very cheap price—as low as 25p at the outset". [6] [7]