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TRIVIA TODAY - Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Greetings Infomaniacs,
Tonight at the library I am hosting a program on Al Capone.
Author and acclaimed journalist Jonathan Eig is coming to
talk about the famous gangster, and I think it will be
fascinating to learn more about him. Here's a few Capone
facts for you to enjoy!
Enjoy!
Melissa
Email Melissa: mailto:melissa@gophercentral.com
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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: ?Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will
take you everywhere.?
HINT: (1879-1955), German born American Physicist who
developed the special and general theories of relativity.
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RANDOM TIDBITS
Al Capone was first buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery in
Chicago's far South Side between the graves of his father,
Gabriele, and brother, Frank, but in March of 1950 the
remains of all three were moved to Mount Carmel Cemetery
on the far West Side.
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Although Capone ordered dozens of deaths and even killed
with his own hands, he often treated people fairly and
generously. He was the first to open soup kitchens after
the 1929 stock market crash and he ordered merchants to
give clothes and food to the needy at his expense.
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Capone was arrested in 1926 for killing three people, but
spent only one night in jail because there was insufficient
evidence to connect him with the murders. When Capone
finally served his first prison term in May of 1929, it was
simply for carrying a gun.
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VIDEO CLIP
Al Capone's Early Life - Hollywood Vs. The Mob
Al Capone, commonly nicknamed Scarface, was an Italian-
American gangster during the Prohibition Era in the 20's
and 30's. Come learn about the early life of Capone in this
short clip.
http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=14364
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Al Capone expanded into the suburbs, sometimes using terror
as in Forest View, which became known as "Caponeville."
Sometimes he simply bribed public officials and the police
as in Cicero. He established suburban headquarters in
Cicero's Anton Hotel at 4835 W. 22nd Street and in the
Hawthorne Hotel at 4823 22nd Street. He pretended to be an
antique dealer and a doctor to front his headquarters.
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"Scarface Al" got his hated nickname from the ear to mouth
scar on his left cheek. Capone often romanticized this scar
by pretending he'd received it as a member of the Lost
Battalion. The truth is he got it when he was 17 by a man
named Frank Gallucio.
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Capone's most notorious killing was the St. Valentine's
Day Massacre. On February 14, 1929, four Capone men entered
a garage at 2122 N. Clark Street. The building was the main
liquor headquarters of bootlegger George "Bugs" Moran's
North Side gang. Because two of Capone's men were dressed
as police, the seven men in the garage thought it was a
police raid. As a result, they dropped their guns and put
their hands against the wall. Using two shotguns and two
machine guns, the Capone men fired more than 150 bullets
into the victims.
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*** Weekly Mind-Scrambler ***
I go up but at the same time go down.
Up towards the blue sky, and down towards the ground.
I'm present tense and past tense too, so why don't you come
for a ride, just me and you!
What am I?
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Answer will be posted in Friday's Trivia Today. Good Luck!
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email me your complete name and address and I will ship
your prize.
Be sure to put "Winner" in the subject line.
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QUOTE: ?Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will
take you everywhere.?
ANSWER: Albert Einstein.
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