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Ligon was at one point held for evaluation in Eastern State Penitentiary, which opened in 1829 and once held Al Capone and bank robber Willie Sutton.

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When Answer Man was a wee Answer Boy, a favorite game was cops and robbers.

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The Mini Cooper was a budget bijou performance car, a good 16 years before VW thought up the Golf GTI, beloved by rally drivers and celluloid bank robbers alike.

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Males have been observed fleeing the scene afterwards like a bank robber when the alarm is tripped.

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It’s all very well catching a grasshopper twice your size—as the top predators, the robber flies, love doing—but then to have to deal with their long limbs flailing around while you’re trying to eat is tricky.

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Q was a Queen, who wore a silk slip; R was a Robber, and wanted a whip.

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Probably the most interesting of them all is the great Robber-crab, which is found on certain islands of the Pacific.

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Robber raids they called these wars which he waged for trumped-up pretexts.

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Erastus the Robber Duck held up his wings as high as possible, and tried to get them higher.

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Erastus the Robber Duck started to run; but he was lost, and did not know which way to go.

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