Synonymer & Information om | Engelska ordet HIGHWAYMAN

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• Sile Doty (August 30, 1800 – March 12, 1876), infamous robber, burglar, horse thief, highwayman, counterfeiter, and criminal gang leader.
• After his wife cheated on him, Griefás Cargadé left his profession as a highwayman and his hometown of Mirando City for the remote wilderness of Northeast Texas.
• John Austin (highwayman) (died 1783), English criminal, last person hanged on the gallows at Tyburn, London.
• Romanticising the highwayman Dick Turpin, it succeeds enough for the author to take up full-time writing.
• Their first crime together was to steal a race horse called White Stockings or Whitestocking, but it was under King's influence that Turpin turned from his life of petty crime to a career as a highwayman.
• The favorite and original method of the Malagueño highwayman is to creep up quietly behind his victim, muffle his head and arms in a cloak, and then relieve him of his valuables.
• According to popular legend, he abhorred violence, showing courtesy to his victims and chivalry to their womenfolk, thus spawning the myth of the romantic highwayman, as taken up by many novelists and playwrights.
• The TV series Dick Turpin had an accomplice of the highwayman, Nick, who earned the nickname "Swiftnick".
• "Whiskey in the Jar" is the tale of a highwayman or footpad who, after robbing a military or government official, is betrayed by a woman; whether she is his wife or sweetheart is not made clear.
• Around 1736, highwayman Dick Turpin began using Gilwell's forests to hide and for ambushing travellers and freight along roads leading into London.
• He related that, according to Hal McKail, the knot was attributable to the notorious 18th-century English highwayman Dick Turpin.
• However, the legend was also shaped in important ways by the activists and writers in the 19th century when Jánošík became the key highwayman character in stories that spread in the north counties of the Kingdom of Hungary (much in present-day Slovakia) and among the local Gorals inhabitants of the Podhale region north of the Tatras.
• It features Adam Ant dressed as a "dandy highwayman" who threatens his victims with the mirror image of their unfashionable selves and who is captured and escapes being hanged from the gallows with help from his accomplices (his band members).
• The site of a cave used by the highwayman, Humphrey Kynaston now forms part of the Nesscliffe Hill Country Park.
• Ludus latrunculorum, latrunculi, or simply latrones ("the game of brigands", or "the game of soldiers" from latrunculus, diminutive of latro, mercenary or highwayman) was a two-player strategy board game played throughout the Roman Empire.
• Craddock grows up to become a notorious highwayman and robber who terrorizes England in the 19th century under the name "Gentleman Jim", after a prophecy from a Romani said he would be a highwayman.
• Bush cited the English folk song "Sovay", in which a woman dresses as a highwayman and accosts her lover in order to test his devotion, as an inspiration for the story of Babooshka.

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