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Barabbas Barabbas
Barabbas [Aram.,=son of the father], bandit held in jail at the time of Jesus' arrest. Pontius Pilate, who, according to the Gospels, annually released a prisoner at Passover, offered to release Jesus, but the people demanded his death and Barabbas' delivery.... Read more
The Girl of the Golden West The Girl of the Golden West
Girl of the Golden West, The (1905), a play by David Belasco. [Belasco Theatre, 224 perf.] Minnie Falconer ( Blanche Bates) may be the owner of the Polka Saloon in a California mining camp called Cloudy Mountain, but she is also the town's respected schoolmarm, and she is courted by the gentlemanly... Read more
Kuang-wu-ti Kuang-wu-ti
Kuang-wu-ti The Chinese emperor Kuang-wu-ti (6 B.C.-A.D. 57) was the founder of the Later Han dynasty. He reconstituted the civil administration, began a period of recuperation in domestic affairs, and restored peace to China's borders. Kuang-wu-ti is the posthumous title given to Liu Hsiu,... Read more
Fra Diavolo Fra Diavolo
Fra Diavolo [Ital.,=friar devil], 1771-1806, Italian bandit and soldier, whose real name was Michele Pezza. He entered the service of the king of Naples in 1798 and with Cardinal Ruffo resisted the French invasion (1799) of the kingdom. He was captured (1806) and hanged by the French. The plot of... Read more
Beltway Beltway
Beltway Washington DC, especially as representing the perceived insularity of the US government, from a transferred use by association with the ring road encircling Washington.Beltway Bandit in US slang, a company or individual, frequently one employed by a US government agency, hired by a... Read more
Northfield Northfield
Northfield city (1990 pop. 14,684), Rice co., SE Minn., near Minneapolis-St. Paul, on the Cannon River; inc. 1875. It is the trade center for a dairy and farming region. Manufactures include printed circuit boards, toys, feeds and seeds, and cereals. On Sept. 7, 1876, Jesse and Frank James and... Read more
ronin ronin
ronin , in Japanese history, masterless samurai . Ronin were retainers who were deprived of their place in the usual loyalty patterns of Japanese feudalism. The daimyo they had served might have died, been exiled, or become so poor that the samurai had to abandon his lord. Ronin became farmers,... Read more
bushrangers bushrangers
bushrangers bandits who terrorized the bush country of Australia in the 19th cent. The first bushrangers (c.1806-44) were mainly escaped convicts who fled to the bush and organized gangs. Their crimes were checked effectively by various Bushranging Acts passed after 1830. With the discovery of... Read more
Joaquin Murrieta Joaquin Murrieta
Murrieta, Joaquin (c.1832–53),California bandit leader, probably emigrated from Mexico during the gold rush, and because of some real or imagined grievance swore vengeance against the Americans, whom for two years he and his gang indiscriminately murdered, robbed, and terrorized. He, or an... Read more

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