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Definition: Al Capone |
Al CaponeNoun1. United States gangster who terrorized Chicago during Prohibition until arrested for tax evasion (1899-1947). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Al CaponeSynonyms: Alphonse Capone (n), Capone (n), Scarface (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Al Capone was born in Naples, Italy and raised in Brooklyn, New York, where he engaged in petty crime and acquired a razor slash which gave him his nickname. He moved to Chicago on his way up in the criminal world.
Capone was notorious during Prohibition for his control of the Chicago underworld, raking in vast amounts of money from illegal gambling, prostitution and alcohol. Due to witness intimidation, he could not be prosecuted for many crimes that the authorities knew about, including murder. He was eventually imprisoned for tax evasion, on the undeniable and visible evidence that the amount of money he was spending was far greater than his supposed income. He was harassed by Prohibition Bureau agents, Eliot Ness and his "Untouchables" and brought down by IRS agent, Frank Wilson.
Although he was vacationing in Florida at the time, he is responsible for the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in which members of a rival gang led by Bugs Moran were killed in a North Side Chicago garage.
Eventually sentenced for income tax evasion, Al Capone spent time in Alcatraz. Upon being imprisoned, Capone gave his pet dogs to his Florida neighbor, Damon Runyon. Although sentenced to eleven years in prison and fined $80,000, Capone was released in 1939 due to illness and he retired to Florida, where he eventually died of syphilis.
Capone has been portrayed in the movies by Wallace Beery, Paul Muni, Barry Sullivan, Rod Steiger, Neville Brand, Jason Robards, Ben Gazzara and Robert De Niro.
See also: The Untouchables
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Al Capone."
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Thief | Dillinger, Al Capone; Robin Hood. |
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Screenplays | Mackey is not a cop. He's Al Capone with a badge. (The Shield; writing credit: David Benchetrit) | |
Movie/TV Titles | El Regreso de Al Capone (1969) Al Capone im deutschen Wald (1969) Due mafiosi contro Al Capone (1966) Al Capone (1959) The Revenge of Al Capone (1989) | |
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 | Al Capone, with a cigar and a big smile, leaving Federal building in Miami, Fla., preceded by his attorney Abe Teitelbaum.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Chicago Cubs player Gabby Hartnett autographing a baseball for Sonny Capone who is sitting with his father Al Capone and other gangsters at a charity baseball game.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Expression | Frequency per Day |
al capone chicago,illinois | 2 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-l-n-o-p" | |
-1 letter: apnoeal, capelan. | |
-2 letters: anlace, apneal, apnoea, canape, canola, palace. | |
-3 letters: alane, alone, anole, apace, apnea, canal, canoe, capon, clean, clone, coala, copal, copen, lance, nopal, ocean, paean, paeon, palea, panel, pecan, pelon, penal, place, plane, plena, ponce. | |
-4 letters: acne, aeon, alae, alan, alec, aloe, anal, anoa, calo, cane, cape, capo, clan, clap, clon, clop. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-l-n-o-p" | |
+2 letters: cantaloupe. | |
+3 letters: cantaloupes. | |
+4 letters: complaisance, galvanoscope, incomparable, kleptomaniac, paleobotanic, placentation, speciational. | |
+5 letters: campanologies, cephalization, companionable, compartmental, complaisances, convertaplane, coplanarities, encapsulation, encephalogram, encyclopaedia, expectational, galvanoscopes, kleptomaniacs, nonalphabetic, noncomparable, paleomagnetic, placentations, plantocracies, polycarbonate, prevocational, prosencephala, psychoanalyze, reapplication. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6C 43 61 70 6F 6E 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101100 00100000 01000011 01100001 01110000 01101111 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A l   C a p o n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006C 0043 0061 0070 006F 006E 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35782376782818071 |
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