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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 209. Chapters: Bonnie and Clyde, Rashidun Caliphate, Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo, The Young Bucks, Briscoe Brothers, The Bella Twins, Marx Brothers, Coen brothers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters, Forty-seven Ronin, List of Joseph Smith's wives, Gog and Magog, The Usos, Seventy disciples, Cryme Tyme, Robert and Thomas Wintour, Lane Sisters, Biddenden Maids, David and Jonathan, Sherman Brothers, Martyr Saints of China, The American Wolves, Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni, Podge and Rodge, Barlow and Chambers execution, The Five (composers), Wong brothers, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, Harmodius and Aristogeiton, Dionne quintuplets, The Fourteen Infallibles, Seven Sleepers, Belyayev circle, Bob and Ray, Saints Cosmas and Damian, Martyrs of Japan, Fierce Five, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War, Martyrs of Cordoba, Abigail and Brittany Hensel, Bassie & Adriaan, Lyle and Erik Menendez, The Bowery Boys, David and Catherine Birnie, Rat Pack, Seymour family, The Wachowskis, Cambridge Five, The Carracci, The Albert Brothers. Excerpt: Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (October 1, 1910 - May 23, 1934) and Clyde Chestnut Barrow (March 24, 1909 - May 23, 1934) were well-known outlaws, robbers, and criminals who traveled the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression. The "Barrow Gang" included at times Buck Barrow, Blanche Barrow, Raymond Hamilton, W.D. Jones, Joe Palmer, Ralph Fults, and Henry Methvin. Their exploits captured the attention of the American public during the "public enemy era" between 1931 and 1934. Though known today for his dozen-or-so bank robberies, Barrow in fact preferred to rob small stores or rural gas stations. The gang is believed to have killed at least nine police officers and committed several civilian murders. The couple themselves were eventually ambushed and killed in Louisiana by law officers. Their reputation was cemented in American pop folklore by Arthur Penn's 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde. Even during their lifetimes, the couple's depiction in the press was at considerable odds with the hardscrabble reality of their life on the road-particularly in the case of Parker. Though she was present at a hundred or more felonies during her two years as Barrow's companion, she was not the machine gun-wielding cartoon killer portrayed in the newspapers, newsreels, and pulp detective magazines of the day. Gang member W. D. Jones was unsure whether he had ever seen her fire at officers. Parker's reputation as a cigar-smoking gun moll grew out of a playful snapshot found by police at an abandoned hideout, released to the press, and published nationwide; while she did chain-smoke Camel cigarettes, she was not a cigar smoker. Author-historian Jeff Guinn explains that it was the release of these very photos that put the outlaws on the media map and launched their legend: "John Dillinger had matinee-idol good looks and Pretty Boy Floyd had the best possible nickname, but the Joplin photos introduced new criminal superstars with the most titillating trademark of all-illi
