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The Black Hand was organized at the grassroots level in 3-to 5-member cells, supervised by district committees and by a Central committee in Belgrade whose ten-member Executive Committee was led, more or less, by Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijević ( also known as Apis ).
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In Austria, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Serbian nationalist insurgents ( The Black Hand ) is blamed for igniting World War I after a succession of minor conflicts, while belligerents on both sides in World War II used operatives specifically trained for assassination.
Torrio had gone there to resolve some family problems his cousin's husband was having with the Black Hand and killed them.
Unification or Death (), unofficially known as the Black Hand ( Црна рука, Crna ruka ), was a secret military society formed by members of the Serbian army in the Kingdom of Serbia, which was founded on 6 September 1901.
Through its purported connections to the June 1914 assassination in Sarajevo of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, the Black Hand may have been one of the principal catalysts to the start of World War I, fueling the July Crisis of 1914 and giving Austria-Hungary a pretext to invade Serbia.
The Black Hand was founded on 6 September 1901.
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The Black Hand was formed when ten men met on 9 May 1911 to form Ujedinjenje ili Smrt ( Unification or Death ), better known as the Black Hand.
The Black Hand trained guerillas and saboteurs and planned political murders.
The Black Hand took over the terrorist actions of Narodna Odbrana, and worked deliberately at obscuring any distinctions between the two groups, trading on the prestige and network of the older organization.
Black Hand members held important army and government positions.
The Serbian government was fairly well informed of Black Hand activities.
The Black Hand was displeased with Prime minister Nikola Pašić.
By this point, standing up and saying ' no ' to the Black Hand was a dangerous act.
Others in the government and some on the Black Hand Executive Council were not as confident of Russian aid.
When word of the plot percolated through Black Hand leadership and the Serbian government, Apis was told not to proceed.
Towards the end of 1916, Prime Minister Pasic decided to destroy the leaders of the Black Hand and break up the organization.
By the spring of 1917, many Black Hand leaders, including Apis, had been arrested.
Among the charges was that the Black Hand had attempted to murder Prince Regent Alexander.
With the demise of the Black Hand in June 1917 after the Salonika Trial, The White Hand steadily gained control of the young and ambitious Prince Alexander.
It continued the imperialistic work of the Black Hand, using the same techniques.
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It was certain now that Jess was in the house, but also, presumably, was Stacey Black.
Potemkin's Army of Ekaterinoslav, totaling, it was claimed, 40,000 regular troops and 6,000 irregulars of the Cossack Corps, had invested Islam's principal stronghold on the north shore of the Black Sea, the fortress town of Oczakov, and was preparing to test the Turk by land and sea.
But it had, as was usual in southern cities of this sort, a Black Bottom, a low region near the river where the Negroes lived -- servants and laborers huddled together in a region with no sewage save the river, where streets and sidewalks were neglected and where there was much poverty and crime.
The rest of Black Bottom was a rabbit warren of homes in every condition of neglect, disrepair and careful upkeep.
Mr. Justice Black was one of the minority that rested on the Article 1, power.
This mountain was known as The Black Reef and it rose almost perpendicularly for about two hundred feet, honeycombed with caves, top covered with dense scrub and creepers and tall grass.
Hank was beginning to feel sharp concern for Mr. Black.
If Mrs. Black was who he thought she was, Mr. Black's Peerless selling days might well be over.
Next on his program was a call to the Jackson office of Peerless Business Machines to find out if Vincent Black was still with them -- or, more specifically, still with us.
Thirty years' experience let him know, even at this early stage, that Black was his man.
Johnston was assigned to posts in New York and Missouri and served in the Black Hawk War in 1832 as chief of staff to Bvt.
Van Vogt's first published SF story, " Black Destroyer " ( Astounding Science Fiction, July 1939 ), was inspired by Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.
The score was written within a couple of weeks by Goodwin who was approached by George Pollock after Pollock had heard about him from Stanley Black.
Black sign language was born out of this isolation.
The Mariner's Cross is also referred to as St. Clement's Cross, in reference to the way this saint was martyred ( being tied to an anchor and thrown from a boat into the Black Sea in 102 ).
There are the Tubanti just south of the Chatti and at the other end of what was then the Black Forest, the Varisti, whose location is known.
Ptolemy's view of Germans in the region indicates that the tribal structure had lost its grip in the Black Forest region and was replaced by a canton structure.
Anacharsis (; ) was a Scythian philosopher who travelled from his homeland on the northern shores of the Black Sea to Athens in the early 6th century BC and made a great impression as a forthright, outspoken " barbarian ", apparently a forerunner of the Cynics, though none of his works have survived.
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Just prior to World War I, under the orders of the Chief of Serbian Military Intelligence, Serbian Military Officers and remnants of the by then moribund Black Hand organized and facilitated the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria on occasion of his visit to Sarajevo, Bosnia.
Black metal was originally used as a term for extreme metal bands with Satanic and anti-Christian lyrics ; today, the most common lyrical theme is opposition to Christianity and other organized religions.
This exposé of organized crime is set in New York's " Little Italy " during the late 19th century, and focuses on the Black Hand, a group which extorts money upon threat of death.
He is remembered for his handling of the Black Sox scandal, in which he expelled eight members of the Chicago White Sox from organized baseball for conspiring to lose the 1919 World Series and repeatedly refused their reinstatement requests.
This was organized by the Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor, composed of British philanthropists who preferred it as a solution to continuing to financially support them in London.
News of the riot spread quickly throughout Greenwich Village, fueled by rumors that it had been organized by the Students for a Democratic Society, the Black Panthers, or triggered by " a homosexual police officer whose roommate went dancing at the Stonewall against the officer's wishes ".
In the next few years he also occupied the lands of the Black Magyars in the southern part of Transdanubia, and there organized the Diocese of Pécs.
Demonstrations were held daily during the trial and were organized by the Young Lords and the local Black Panther Party led by Chairman Fred Hampton.
* Clodius Albinus defeats the Chatti, a highly organized German tribe that controlled the area that includes the Black Forest.
Latino immigrant adult and youth groups organized themselves as social clubs like: Black Eagles, Flaming Arrows, Paragons and Young Lords.
The Cherokee organized a national government under Principal Chiefs Little Turkey ( 1788 – 1801 ), Black Fox ( 1801 – 1811 ), and Pathkiller ( 1811 – 1827 ), all former warriors of Dragging Canoe.
In the early 1871 a number of Black Seminole Indians living along the border were organized into a company of scouts and brought to Fort Duncan.
In the early 1872 a number of Black Seminole Indians living along the border were organized into a company of scouts and brought to Fort Clark.
) Black Flag organized their own gigs, performing at picnics, house parties, schools ; any place that was available.
The Black Rock Desert is also the site of many other recreational activities, organized and otherwise, throughout the year.
After the gym, physical education room, and band room were built, the band was organized in December, 1952 with Mr. E. C. Black as director.
In 2007, Dominic Molon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago organized an exhibition titled, Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll since 1967, and included a selection of Pettibon ’ s original drawings from Black Flag concert flyers and album covers.
Reagon was an active participant in the Black Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s as a member of The Freedom Singers, organized by the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ).
Handy had a stake in Pace's new business, but Handy's own words contradict this: " ... He Pace simply chose this time to sever connection with our firm in order that he might organized Pace Phonograph Company, issuing Black Swan Records and making a serious bid for the Negro market.
The Anarchist Black Cross began as the Anarchist Red Cross, a breakaway organization from the Political Red Cross organized to aid political prisoners in Czarist Russia.
In 1918, Nestor Makhno organized new chapters of the Anarchist Black Cross as an adjunct to his anarchist Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine or Black Army in the territories of Ukraine which they controlled.
Burning Man is organized by Black Rock City, LLC.
Thus the seed of Black Rock City was germinated, as a fellowship, organized by Law and Mikel, based on Evans ' idea, along with Harvey and James ' symbolic man.
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