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Lincoln Steffens Lincoln Joseph Steffens (April 6, 1866 – August 9, 1936) was a New York reporter who launched a series of articles in "McClure's", called "Tweed Days in St. Louis", that would later be published together in a book titled "The Shame of the Cities". He is remembered for investigating corruption in municipal government in American cities and for his early support for the Soviet Union.
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Tom Clancy Thomas Leo "Tom" Clancy Jr. (April 12, 1947 – October 1, 2013) was an American novelist best known for his technically detailed espionage and military-science story lines set during and after the Cold War. Seventeen of his novels were bestsellers, and more than 100 million copies of his books are in print. His name was also used on movie scripts written by ghost writers, nonfiction books on military subjects, and video games. He was a part-owner of the Baltimore Orioles and vice-chairman of their community activities and public affairs committees.
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Tom Ruud Thomas Robert "Tom" Ruud (born July 26, 1953, in Olivia, Minnesota) is a former professional football player, a linebacker for the Buffalo Bills and Cincinnati Bengals of the NFL. At 6'3" 223 lb, he played college football for the Nebraska Cornhuskers from 1972-74. At the 1975 NFL Draft, Ruud was selected in the first round (19th overall) by the Buffalo Bills. He played three seasons with the Bills and two with the Cincinnati Bengals.
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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars is a turn-based tactics video game for the Nintendo 3DS developed and published by Ubisoft in 2011. The game is part of the "Ghost Recon" series of the Tom Clancy games. First images of the game were leaked by IGN in 2010. The game was released on March 25, 2011 in Europe, March 27 in North America, and March 31 in Australia as a launch title for Nintendo's new console. It was later released in Japan on May 19, 2011.
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Project Stealth Project Stealth is a cancelled stealth multiplayer video game. The game's design is inspired by the multiplayer component found in the "Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell" games of "" and "".
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Paul Steed Paul Howard Steed, Jr. (November 6, 1964 – August 11, 2012) was a video game modeller and artist. He worked for Origin Systems, Electronic Arts, id Software, Wild Tangent, Microsoft's Xbox, Atari, and Exigent. He created artwork or models for several prominent game series including "Wing Commander" and "Quake". He was employed by id Software until he was fired in retaliation for conflict over the creation of "Doom 3" (according to John Carmack).
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Sten The STEN (or Sten gun) was a family of British submachine guns chambered in 9×19mm and used extensively by British and Commonwealth forces throughout World War II and the Korean War. They were notable for having a simple design and very low production cost, making them effective insurgency weapons for resistance groups.
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Full Force and Effect Full Force and Effect is a political thriller novel in the Tom Clancy universe by Mark Greaney published on December 2, 2014 by Putnam Adult. It is the first Jack Ryan novel to be written and released after the death of Tom Clancy.
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Chuck Connors Kevin Joseph Aloysius “Chuck” Connors (April 10, 1921 – November 10, 1992) was an American actor, writer and professional basketball and baseball player. He is one of only 12 athletes in the history of American professional sports to have played both Major League Baseball and in the National Basketball Association. With a 40-year film and television career, he is best known for his five-year role as Lucas McCain in the highly rated ABC series "The Rifleman" (1958–63).
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John T. Clancy John Thomas Clancy (April 11, 1903 – May 14, 1985), also known by his nickname Pat Clancy, was a lawyer, Democratic politician and surrogate judge from Queens, New York City.
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Massive Entertainment Ubisoft Entertainment Sweden AB, doing business as Massive Entertainment, is a Swedish video game developer based in Malmö, Sweden. The company has been fully owned by Ubisoft since 2008. The studio is known for "Ground Control", "World in Conflict", and their latest title "Tom Clancy's The Division".
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Thomas K. Clancy Thomas K. Clancy is a professor emeritus at the University of Mississippi School of Law and lectures nationally on cyber crime and the Fourth Amendment, which regulates governmental searches and seizures. He previously served as the Director of the National Center for Justice and the Rule of Law at the University of Mississippi School of Law, where he was a Research Professor. He took emeritus status on July 1, 2014. Clancy received his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame, and is a graduate of Vermont Law School.
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Tom Dempsey Thomas John Dempsey (born January 12, 1947) is a former American football placekicker in the National Football League (NFL) for the New Orleans Saints (1969–1970), Philadelphia Eagles (1971–1974), Los Angeles Rams (1975–1976), Houston Oilers (1977) and Buffalo Bills (1978–1979). He attended high school at San Dieguito High School and played college football at Palomar College. Unlike the "soccer style" approach which was becoming more and more widely used during his career, Dempsey's kicking style was the standard (of the day) straight-toe style.
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Lew Rockwell Llewellyn Harrison "Lew" Rockwell Jr. (born July 1, 1944) is an American author, editor, and political consultant. A libertarian and a self-professed anarcho-capitalist, he founded (and is chairman of) the Ludwig von Mises Institute, a non-profit dedicated to promoting the Austrian School of economics. He also started a website in 1999, LewRockwell.com, that features articles and blog entries by a number of right-wing libertarian columnists and writers.
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The Sum of All Fears (film) The Sum of All Fears is a 2002 American spy thriller film directed by Phil Alden Robinson, based on Tom Clancy's novel of the same name. The film, which is set in the "Jack Ryan" film series, is a reboot taking place in 2002. Jack Ryan is portrayed as a younger character by Ben Affleck, in comparison to "The Hunt for Red October" starring Alec Baldwin, along with the film's subsequent sequels, "Patriot Games" and "Clear and Present Danger", both of which starred Harrison Ford.
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Joseph Steffan Joseph Steffan (born July 29, 1964) is an American lawyer and gay activist. He was expelled from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis in 1987 shortly before graduation after disclosing his homosexuality. He sued the U.S. Department of Defense, claiming that his oral avowal of homosexuality could not be construed as an indication that he ever had or intended to engage in sexual relations with another man. He lost a protracted court battle for reinstatement in 1994.
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Steffen Størseth Steffen Skår Størseth (born April 26, 1975) is a Norwegian competition rower and Olympic medalist.
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Boston Corbett Thomas P. "Boston" Corbett (January 29, 1832 – presumed dead c. September 1, 1894) was a Union Army soldier who shot and killed President Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Corbett was initially arrested for disobeying orders, but was later released and was largely considered a hero by the media and the public.
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Support and Defend Support and Defend is a political thriller novel in the Tom Clancy universe by Mark Greaney published on July 22, 2014 by Putnam Adult.
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Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Acts of War Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Acts of War is a technothriller by Jeff Rovin
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Joe Lefors Joe Lefors (February 20, 1865 – October 1, 1940) was a lawman in the closing years of the Old West. He is best known for the arrest of gunman Tom Horn in 1903 for the alleged murder of 14‑year-old sheepherder Willie Nickell, which has since come into question, and it has long been believed that Lefors falsified evidence helping to convict the wrong man for the murder.
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Clancy, Montana Clancy is a census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson County, Montana, United States. The population was 1,406 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Helena Micropolitan Statistical Area.