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  • A protection racket is a type of racket and a scheme of organized crime perpetrated by a potentially hazardous organized crime group that generally guarantees...
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  • Racketeering (redirect from Racket (crime))
    extortionary, or otherwise illegal coordinated scheme or operation (a "racket") to repeatedly or consistently collect a profit. The term "racketeering"...
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    Racket is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language. The Racket language is a modern dialect of Lisp and a descendant of Scheme. It is designed...
    35 KB (3,205 words) - 18:29, 16 November 2024
  • War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps major general and two-time Medal of Honor...
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    A racket or racquet is an item of sporting equipment used to strike a ball or shuttlecock in a variety of sports. A racket consists of three major components:...
    41 KB (5,472 words) - 02:45, 21 October 2024
  • What a Racket!, also known as Mr. Joe Jackson Presents Max Champion in 'What a Racket!', is the 21st studio album by English singer-songwriter and musician...
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  • Numbers game (redirect from Numbers racket)
    The numbers game, also known as the numbers racket, the Italian lottery, Mafia lottery or the daily number, is a form of illegal gambling or illegal lottery...
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    The genus Prioniturus, commonly known as racket-tails, contains nine parrot species found in the Philippines and Indonesia. They are easily distinguished...
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    The greater racket-tailed drongo (Dicrurus paradiseus) is a medium-sized Asian bird which is distinctive in having elongated outer tail feathers with webbing...
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    Table tennis (category Racket sports)
    Table tennis (also known as ping-pong or whiff-whaff) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary...
    77 KB (9,024 words) - 22:42, 26 October 2024
  • Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series that aired from 1951 to 1953. The format was a narrated anthology drama, as each individual episode featured...
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    label. In addition, there have been many live releases on the band's own Racket Records label, which are detailed separately in the relevant section below...
    72 KB (1,648 words) - 00:56, 11 November 2024
  • The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business is a 2014 book by Christopher Leonard about the meat processing industry in the United...
    12 KB (1,312 words) - 13:58, 28 March 2024
  • The Love Racket is a 1929 American early sound crime drama film produced and distributed by First National Pictures. It was directed by William A. Seiter...
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    The racket-tipped thorntail, formerly called racket-tailed coquette, (Discosura longicaudus) is a species of hummingbird in subfamily lesbiinae of family...
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    of his gang purchased "prize" soap. The racket led to his sobriquet of "Soapy." The success of his soap racket and other scams helped him finance three...
    26 KB (3,486 words) - 02:27, 20 October 2024
  • A Guide to American Crime Films of the Thirties. Greenwood Press. p. 200. ISBN 978-0-313-29532-4. Parole Racket at the Internet Movie Database v t e...
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  • (15 November 2023). "A Vampiric Hedge Fund Is Eating the Pioneer Press Alive". Racket. Retrieved 2 December 2023. "Media mogul was owner of hockey team"...
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    Matt Taibbi (category New York Press people)
    books, former co-host of the Useful Idiots podcast, and publisher of the Racket News (formerly TK News) on Substack. Taibbi began as a freelance reporter...
    73 KB (6,997 words) - 15:58, 28 October 2024
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    Tennis (category Racket sports)
    Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each...
    128 KB (14,645 words) - 14:54, 17 November 2024
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