A notorious murder scandal, the Overbury case, threw up two imperfect anagrams that were aided by typically loose spelling and were recorded by Simonds D ' Ewes: ' Francis Howard ' ( for Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset, her maiden name spelled in a variant ) became Car findes a whore, with the letters E hardly counted, and the victim Thomas Overbury, as ' Thomas Overburie ', was written as O!

Israelites of course abstained from pork, but Ahab was married to a Phoenician / Tyrian princess Jezebel, who was one of the most " powerful and notorious women of monarchic times " yet who died of a similarly seemingly random death like her husband, and his capital of Samaria was said to follow Canaanite gods.

The notorious guard Sejanus was murdered in 31 on the orders of Tiberius.

For nearly twenty years he battled an amphetamine addiction ; during the 1960s he was a patient of the notorious Max Jacobson, known as " Dr. Feelgood ", who administered injections of " vitamins with enzymes " that were in fact laced with amphetamines.

The resulting sequence, " Jack Jawbreaker Fights Crime !," was a devastating satire of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's notorious exploitation by DC Comics over Superman.

The notorious Rusty n Edie's BBS, in Boardman, Ohio, was raided by the FBI in January 1993 for software piracy, and later sued by Playboy for copyright infringement in November 1997.

Edward Teach ( c. 1680 – 22 November 1718 ), better known as Blackbeard, was a notorious English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of the American colonies.

* Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan, earlier ennobled by the Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson's notorious Lavender List ( 1976 ), was convicted of fraud ( 1980 )

By the 1970s the area was notorious for street robberies and drug dealing.

Another notorious cannibal was mountain man Boone Helm, who was known as " The Kentucky Cannibal " for eating several of his fellow travelers, from 1850 until his eventual hanging in 1864.

Hearst was notorious for his practice of yellow journalism, and he was frowned on by readers of The New York Times and other newspapers which featured few or no comic strips.

The council abolished some of the most notorious abuses and introduced or recommended disciplinary reforms affecting the sale of indulgences, the morals of convents, the education of the clergy, the non-residence of bishops ( also bishops having plurality of benefices, which was fairly common ), and the careless fulmination of censures, and forbade dueling.

Among the notorious ones was the Tambov rebellion.

Possibly the most notorious such vehicle was the former Soviet TMM bridging truck that could carry and launch a 10 meter bridge that could be daisy-chained with other TMM bridges to cross larger obstacles.

Captain William Kidd was either one of the most notorious pirates in the history of the world or one of its most unjustly vilified and prosecuted privateers in an age typified by the rationalisation of empire.

One year later, " Captain " Culliford, a notorious pirate, stole Kidd's ship while he was ashore at Antigua in the West Indies.

The Limehouse area in London was notorious for its opium dens, many of which catered for Chinese sailors as well as English addicts.

Further problems were caused by a notorious hooligan element among the support, which was to plague the club throughout the decade.

One of the most notorious propaganda films is Leni Riefenstahl's film Triumph of the Will ( 1935 ), which chronicled the 1934 Nazi Party Congress and was commissioned by Adolf Hitler.

But one does not have to rely on the victims for stories of violence: Ted Patrick, one of the most notorious deprogrammers used by CAGs ( who has spent several terms in prison for his exploits ) openly boasts about some of the violence he employed ; in November 1987, Cyril Vosper, a Committee member of the British cult-awareness group, FAIR, was convicted in Munich of " causing bodily harm " in the course of one of his many deprogramming attempts ; and a number of similar convictions are on record for prominent members of CAGs elsewhere.

Gambling, particularly on craps or horse races, was a common theme of Runyon's works, and he was a notorious gambler himself.

Also, there was an official ban on bushranger films in 1912.

It was thought to have been used by bushranger Captain Thunderbolt.

Australian bushranger Ned Kelly had been executed only twenty-six years before The Story of the Kelly Gang was made and Ned's mother Ellen and younger brother Jim were still alive at the time it was released.

Edward " Ned " Kelly ( June 1854 or 1855 – 11 November 1880 ) was an Irish Australian bushranger.

Ben Hall, who became a notorious bushranger, was married in St Michael's Church at Bathurst in 1856.

John Piesley, another bushranger, was tried and hung for murder at Bathurst Gaol in 1862.

Matthew Brady ( 1799 – 4 May 1826 ) was a notorious bushranger in Van Diemen's Land ( now known as Tasmania ) in the early 19th century.

Nolan, like the bushranger, was a fugitive from the law.

One prisoner on Cockatoo Island was the Australian bushranger, Captain Thunderbolt, who escaped in 1863 to begin the crime spree which made him famous.

Frederick WardFrederick Wordsworth Ward ( aka Captain Thunderbolt ) ( 1835 – 25 May 1870 ) was an Australian bushranger renowned for escaping from Cockatoo Island, and also for his reputation as the " gentleman bushranger " and his lengthy survival, being the longest roaming bushranger in nineteenth-century Australian history.

In 1861, Western Australia's notorious bushranger Moondyne Joe was imprisoned in Toodyay for stealing a horse, but escaped.

In 1828, the bushranger John Tennant, known as the ' Terror of Argyle ', was captured by James Ainslie and two others near the Murrumbidgee River in Tuggeranong.

In 1866, Henry Hurst was fatally wounded by a bushranger, Robert Bourke.

Johnny Dunn the bushranger and last of the Ben Hall gang was captured near Coonamble after a gunbattle with Police at Christmas 1865.

It was the seventh Australian feature film version of the story of 19th century Australian bushranger Ned Kelly.

The bushranger Harry Power was also imprisoned here.

It was first constructed starting in 1839, and during its operation as a prison between 1845 and 1924, it held and executed some of Australia's most notorious criminals, including bushranger Ned Kelly and serial killer Frederick Bailey Deeming.

Since 1949, the only National League club that got off to a hot start and made a runaway of the race was the '55 Dodger team.

European accession was delayed by controversies over the extradition of army generals to the ICTY, including the runaway Ante Gotovina.

That Onesimus was a runaway slave could be suggested by the pun Paul makes on his name ( which means " useful "), stating that ( up until the time of Philemon receiving the letter ) Onesimus had been " useless " to Philemon.

With Sullivan's brother, Fred, as the Learned Judge, the opera was a runaway hit, outlasting the run of La Périchole.

Chapman met Tomiczek when the teenager was a runaway from Liverpool.

With his reputation as " Mr. T ", Tureaud attracted strange offers and was frequently approached with odd commissions, which included: assassination, tracking runaway teenagers, locating missing persons, and large firms asking him to collect past-due payments by force.

He was blamed for a change in director and a runaway budget, though he disclaimed responsibility for either.

In the mid 1760s, the government requested the Huron and Delaware to return runaway slaves, but there was no record of slaves having been returned.

For example, the Chernobyl disaster involved a runaway chain reaction but the result was a low-powered steam explosion from the relatively small release of heat, as compared with a bomb.

Herr Starr reveals to Cassidy that Jesus had children, and did not die on the cross, but instead lived to middle-age, and was killed by a runaway offal cart.

( 1 Kings 2: 27 ) Shimei was confined to Jerusalem and killed three years later, when he went to Gath to retrieve some runaway servants, in part because he had cursed David when David's son Absalom rebelled against David.

Burch wrongfully claimed that Northup was a runaway slave from Georgia, and sold him as such.

With a campaign for a state-led constitutional amendment gaining strength, and a fear that this could result in a " runaway convention ", the proposal to mandate direct elections for the Senate was finally introduced in the Congress.

To avoid a " runaway convention ", in which unexpected or damaging amendments could be considered, the proposal to mandate direct elections for the Senate was finally introduced in the Congress ; on June 12, 1911, it passed in the Senate by a vote of 64 to 24, with 4 not voting, and on May 13, 1912, passed in the House by a vote of 238 to 39, with 110 not voting.

Featuring characters from Nintendo's various franchises, the game was a runaway commercial success in addition to being lavished with critical praise.

Kate Larson records the year 1822, based on a midwife payment and several other historical documents, including her runaway advertisement while Jean Humez says " the best current evidence suggests that Tubman was born in 1820, but it might have been a year or two later.

Robert Morris was selected as the new Superintendent of Finance, and then Morris used some ingenuity and initiative — along with a loan from the French Government — to deal with his empty treasury and also runaway inflation, for a number of years, in the supply of paper money.

A runaway serf's land was forfeit after ten years.

The group was led by John Powell's younger brother, Henry, who arrived with 80 settlers and 10 slaves — these first ten slaves were among the sometimes kidnapped and other times runaway English or Irish youth.

Some biographies state that Marta's father was a gravedigger and handyman, while others speculate that he was a runaway landless serf.

A " runaway grand jury " had publicly complained that William C. Dodge, the District Attorney, was not aggressively pursuing the mob and political corruption.

Some modern scientists have theorized that the horns were useful or impressive in mating rituals among males ( although other scientists dispute this theory, pointing out that the horns were not sexually dimorphic ) and that it was an example of runaway evolution.

The map shows eight catching pens for holding captured runaway slaves, indicating that this was a serious problem.

The exception was the Western Caribbean Zone, which included the Caribbean coast and encompassed both semi-independent indigenous polities, runaway slave communities, and settlers, especially English settlers who would eventually form British Honduras ( the modern-day nation of Belize ), a sparsely populated area that was leased by the Guatemalans to Great Britain in eschange to construct a highway that they never finished, and stole and kept that land afterwards.