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Pinkerton's and ship
* Abraham Lincoln, B. F. Pinkerton's ship in Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly
Weeks pass with Cho-Cho-San anxiously scanning the horizon for the arrival of Pinkerton's ship.

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Pinkerton's agents performed services which ranged from undercover investigations and detection of crimes to plant protection and armed security.
Pinkerton's agents performed services ranging from security guarding to private military contracting work.
Then the blonde woman from the steamship enters the office, identifies herself as Pinkerton's wife and asks the Consul to send the following telegram to her husband:
Pinkerton's agents in Europe were instructed to meet every steamship that arrived from New York to see if she had made the transatlantic crossing.
He later meets back up with Red and ventures to Hellebore's estate where the two encounter Mike " Meatpacker " Moran, a Pinkerton's detective from New York City sent to investigate Lord Randolph Hellebore at the behest of Hellebore's wife, who suspects Lord Randolph of having killed his brother, her lover, Algar.
Pinkerton's published account of the meeting depicts Gowen laying out in some detail the existence, background and nature of a criminal secret society called Mollie Maguires, transplanted from Ireland to the coal region of Pennsylvania.
However, John Pinkerton's East India Isles map from 1818 labeled the mountain as St. Peter's Mountain.
A detective named Rixley from the Pinkerton's agency remains on their trail.

Pinkerton's and .
The story opens with Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies, where the protagonists Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley have just completed their studies and are preparing to depart for Amelia's house in Russell Square.
Pinkerton's business insignia was a wide open eye with the caption " We never sleep.
Pinkerton's agency solved a series of train robberies during the 1850s, first bringing Pinkerton into contact with George McClellan and Abraham Lincoln.
Following Pinkerton's service with the Union Army, he continued his pursuit of train robbers, such as the Reno Gang and the famous outlaw Jesse James.
After James allegedly captured and killed one of Pinkerton's young undercover agents, who was foolish enough to gain employment at the farm neighboring the James farmstead, he finally gave up the chase.
Some consider this failure Pinkerton's biggest defeat.
Pinkerton's Tomb, Graceland Cemetery, Chicago.
Pinkerton's exploits were in part the inspiration of the 1961 NBC western television series, Whispering Smith, starring Audie Murphy and Guy Mitchell.
Pinkerton's role in foiling the assassination plot against Abraham Lincoln was dramatized in the 2012 film Saving Lincoln, which tells President Lincoln's story through the eyes of Ward Hill Lamon, a former law partner of Lincoln who also served as his primary bodyguard during the Civil War.
Charles Vallancey, for example, published a work in 1772 attempting to prove that the Irish language was Phoenician, while John Pinkerton's A Dissertation on the Origin and Progress of the Scythians or Goths ( 1787 ) attempted to show that the Scots were Scythians who had originated in Central Asia.
The historian Sharon Turner later used Pinkerton's research and identified the Saxons as being Scythian.
Onarga was also the location of Allan Pinkerton's weekend estate, The Larches.
In early 1901, through the American detective agency Pinkerton's, he negotiated a return of the painting for $ 25, 000.
A railroad bridge over the Monongahela near the site of the battle is named Pinkerton's Landing Bridge in honor of the dead.
* Allan Pinkerton ( 1819 – 1884 ), who achieved fame in the United States by establishing Pinkerton's detective agency.
It is not known to have been printed before 1786, when it appeared in Pinkerton's Ancient Scottish Poems.
Railroad contracts were subsequently a mainstay of Pinkerton's until railroad companies gradually developed their own police departments in the years following the Civil War.
After the founding of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in 1863, Pinkerton's and the new railroad police agencies became instrumental in crushing strikes of rail workers.
However, Pinkerton's renumbering of the War on Terrorism as the " Twelfth Crusade " has been overshadowed by references to the title of the Cockburn column.

ship and eventually
As the ship moves, momentum is not conserved – the ship eventually comes to a stop again when not thrusting.
A distress signal from the sleeper ship eventually reaches " Relay ", a major node in the galactic communications network.
-- With great difficulty they accomplished their long journey on foot, traversing also the intervening seas ( maria ), where it was possible, by ship, and eventually arrived at the Swedish port called Birka.
Then NTPF became the Afloat Prepositioning Force ( AFP ) and eventually Maritime Prepositioning ship Squadron Two ( MPSRON 2 ) consisting of 20 deep-water pre-positioned logistics ships anchored in the lagoon.
* 1913 – Haruna, the fourth and last ship of the, launches, eventually becoming one of the Japanese workhorses during World War I and World War II.
Drake gave chase and eventually captured the treasure ship, which proved their most profitable capture.
Vancouver did eventually learn of the river before he finished his survey — from Robert Gray, captain of the American merchant ship that conducted the first Euroamerican sailing of the Columbia River on 11 May 1792, after first sighting it on an earlier voyage in 1788.
They were eventually able to walk to their expedition ship MV Benjamin Bowring and boarded it on August 4, 1982 at position 80: 31N 00: 59W.
Chakotay becomes increasingly agitated with the situation and eventually leaves the ship, turning over command of Voyager to a new captain, Afsarah Eden.
However, Chakotay eventually resumes the captaincy of the ship after Eden takes command of the new fleet of which Voyager is a part.
Voyager eventually finds the Maquis ship, and the two crews reluctantly agree they must join forces in order to survive their long journey home.
If and when the airport eventually goes ahead, the Royal Mail ship will cease operations when flights begin.
Sega had planned to ship at least 600, 000 consoles to retailers by Christmas ; this number was eventually met in January, 1995.
The Doctor eventually tricked the Gravis, leader of the Tractators, into reassembling the ship.
According to Thucydides, who wrote within living memory of the events, the ship eventually landed safely at Ephesus, where Themistocles disembarked.
The Count wished to continue experimenting, but he eventually dismantled the ship in 1901.
He is not allowed on the ship and eventually gets taken away by the police.
At the 2011 Chelsea Flower Show, an exhibition garden celebrated the historic link between naturalist Sir Joseph Banks and the botanical discoveries of flora and fauna on his journey through South America, Tahiti, New Zealand and eventually Australia on Captain Cook's ship Endeavour.
Soon, however, the recalcitrant party gained the upper hand, eventually forcing the Navy ship to leave.
Despite initial good fortune, the ship is driven south off course by a storm and eventually reaches Antarctica.
The enormous ship eventually surfaces, lifting many of the naval ships out of the water and leaving them aground on the NTI ship's hull, as well as the platform itself.
This conflict brought prominence to Admiral Yi Sun-sin as he contributed to eventually repelling the Japanese forces with the innovative use of his invention, the turtle ship, a massive, yet swift, ramming / cannon ship fitted with iron spikes and, according to some sources, an iron-plated deck ).
Although the New Republic eventually upgrades its starfleet with newer ship types, the Imperial-class Star Destroyer remains in service well into the New Jedi Order era and fights during the Yuuzhan Vong war.

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