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    Jonathan Wild, also spelled Wilde (1682 or 1683 – 24 May 1725), was an English thief-taker and a major figure in London's criminal underworld, notable...
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  • The Life and Death of the Late Jonathan Wild, the Great is a satiric novel by Henry Fielding. It was published in 1743 in Fielding's Miscellanies, third...
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    General: The Rise and Fall of Jonathan Wild. London: Hutchinson. ISBN 9780091017507. McKenzie, Andrea (2004). "Wild, Jonathan (bap. 1683, d. 1725)". Oxford...
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  • November 2, 2013. Crow, Jonathan. "Wild Zero Overview". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 2, 2013. Crow, Jonathan. "Wild Zero Review". Allmovie...
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    Abraham Adams – 1742 The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great – 1743, ironic treatment of Jonathan Wild, a notorious underworld figure of the time...
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  • sodomy offences. Alongside his former assistant and then a major rival Jonathan Wild, against whom he later published a pamphlet (The Regulator) and contributed...
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    crimes, and it saw its peak in the early 18th century with the notorious Jonathan Wild. Receiving is intrinsically connected to theft, as receivers, by definition...
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    and prosper" is attributed to the 18th-century organized crime figure Jonathan Wild in his 1725 biography written by "H.D.", possibly a pseudonym for Daniel...
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  • emerged into the world of thievery, he learned about the famous Jonathan Wild. Jonathan ran a business of thievery in London, though he disguised himself...
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    General" Jonathan Wild to control Sheppard, and injuries suffered by Wild at the hands of Sheppard's colleague Joseph "Blueskin" Blake, resulted in Wild's demise...
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  • scientist Jonathan Wild (c.1683 – 1725), eighteenth-century English crime boss Kirsten Wild (born 1982), Dutch road and track cyclist Paul Wild (rugby league)...
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  • individuals. In the 1720s and 30s thief-takers like Charles Hitchen and Jonathan Wild stimulated the Societies' activities. The peak of this wave of prosecution...
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  • Something Wild is a 1986 American comedy thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme, written by E. Max Frye, and starring Melanie Griffith, Jeff Daniels...
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  • officer in 1718. King went into business with infamous London criminal Jonathan Wild, from whom she learned pick-pocketing. In October 1718, King, now using...
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  • Wild Target is a 2010 black comedy film directed by Jonathan Lynn, written by Lucinda Coxon, and starring Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, Rupert Grint, Eileen...
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    new levels. John Gay's The Beggar's Opera and Henry Fielding's novel Jonathan Wild are only two examples of sharpers as heroes, in these cases, to provide...
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  • Wild America is a 1997 American adventure comedy film directed by William Dear, written by David Michael Wieger, and starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Devon...
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  • scientist) (John Paul Wild, born 1923), Australian radio astronomer Frank Wild (John Wild, 1873–1939), Antarctic explorer Jonathan Wild (1682–1725), London...
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    4 July 2021. Wild, Jonathan (October 2005). Hearts Tarts and Rascals. Great Northern Books. pp. 10–11. ISBN 9780955091407. Wild, Jonathan (October 2005)...
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    Jonathan Taylor Thomas (né Weiss; born September 8, 1981) is an American actor and director. He is known for portraying Randy Taylor on Home Improvement...
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  • "The Wild (2006)". Rotten Tomatoes. "The Wild Reviews". Metacritic. "Cinemascore". Archived from the original on December 20, 2018. Rosenbaum, Jonathan (April...
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    Wild haggis (given the humorous taxonomic designation Haggis scoticus) is a fictional creature of Scottish folklore, said to be native to the Scottish...
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  • the concept is inspired by real-world examples from history, such as Jonathan Wild and his gang of thieves. Some stories of One Thousand and One Nights...
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  • Jonathan Malen is a Canadian actor, best known for providing the voice for Jimmy Z in Wild Kratts. Jonathan Malen and actress Lauren Collins became engaged...
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    The wild boar (Sus scrofa), also known as the wild swine, common wild pig, Eurasian wild pig, or simply wild pig, is a suid native to much of Eurasia and...
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    victims and offenders and received a portion of the reward offered. Jonathan Wild, a prominent figure of the underworld, successfully combined thief-taking...
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    criminals and those who fed off of the criminals. Major crime lords like Jonathan Wild invented new schemes for stealing, and newspapers were eager to report...
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  • original Van Wilder film, it was directed by Harvey Glazer and released direct-to-DVD. The movie stars Jonathan Bennett as the eponymous Van Wilder during his...
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    to the criminal Jonathan Wild as, for example, John Gay did in his farcical Beggar's Opera. Walpole's other enemies included Jonathan Swift,[page needed]...
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    parodied Daniel Defoe's criminal biographies: The History of Jonathan Wild the Great. Jonathan Wild was published in Fielding's Miscellanies, and it is a thorough-going...
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