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Albert W. Hicks, the Glossary

Albert W. Hicks (c. 1820 – July 13, 1860), also known as Elias W. Hicks, William Johnson, John Hicks, and Pirate Hicks, was a triple murderer and one of the last people executed for piracy in the United States.^[1]

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1860 murders in the United States
19th-century executions by New York (state)
People executed by the United States federal government by hanging
Piracy in the Atlantic Ocean
Piracy in the Pacific Ocean

Andersonville (novel)

Andersonville is a novel by MacKinlay Kantor concerning the Confederate prisoner of war camp Andersonville prison during the American Civil War (1861–1865).

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Battery Weed

Battery Weed is a four-tiered 19th century fortification guarding the Narrows, the main approach from the Atlantic Ocean to New York City.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Capital punishment

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct.

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Charles Scribner's Sons

Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner's or Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City, known for publishing American authors including Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Stephen King, Robert A. Heinlein, Thomas Wolfe, George Santayana, John Clellon Holmes, Don DeLillo, and Edith Wharton.

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Columbia University

Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.

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Daguerreotype

Daguerreotype (daguerréotype) was the first publicly available photographic process, widely used during the 1840s and 1850s.

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Death mask

A death mask is a likeness (typically in wax or plaster cast) of a person's face after their death, usually made by taking a cast or impression from the corpse.

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Devil

A devil is the personification of evil as it is conceived in various cultures and religious traditions.

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Foster, Rhode Island

Foster is a town in Providence County, Rhode Island, in the United States.

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Friday the 13th

Friday the 13th is considered an unlucky day in Western superstition.

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Hanging

Hanging is killing a person by suspending them from the neck with a noose or ligature.

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Liberty Island

Liberty Island is a federally owned island in Upper New York Bay in the United States.

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MacKinlay Kantor

MacKinlay Kantor (February 4, 1904 – October 11, 1977), born Benjamin McKinlay Kantor, was an American journalist, novelist and screenwriter.

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Mexico

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.

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Monkey jacket

A monkey jacket is a waist length jacket tapering at the back to a point.

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Murder ballad

Murder ballads are a subgenre of the traditional ballad form dealing with a crime or a gruesome death.

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New York Bay

New York Bay is the large tidal body of water in the New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary where the Hudson River, Raritan River, and Arthur Kill empty into the Atlantic Ocean between Sandy Hook and Rockaway Point.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Norwich, Connecticut

Norwich (also called "The Rose of New England") is a city in New London County, Connecticut, United States.

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P. T. Barnum

Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an American showman, businessman and politician remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and founding the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus with James Anthony Bailey.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Piracy

Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods. Albert W. Hicks and Piracy are Maritime folklore.

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Providence, Rhode Island

Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island.

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Rich Cohen

Rich Cohen (born July 30, 1968) is an American non-fiction writer.

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Schooner

A schooner is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast.

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Sloop

A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast.

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Slouch hat

A slouch hat is a wide-brimmed felt or cloth hat most commonly worn as part of a military uniform, often, although not always, with a chinstrap.

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Sodomy

Sodomy, also called buggery in British English, generally refers to either anal sex (but occasionally also oral sex) between people, or any sexual activity between a human and another animal (bestiality).

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South America

South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Staten Island

Staten Island is the southernmost borough of New York City, coextensive with Richmond County and situated at the southernmost point of New York.

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The Narrows

The Narrows is the tidal strait separating the boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City.

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The New Exhibit

"The New Exhibit" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone is an American media franchise based on the anthology television series created by Rod Serling in which characters find themselves dealing with often disturbing or unusual events, an experience described as entering "the Twilight Zone".

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_W._Hicks

Also known as Albert E. Hicks.

Albert W. Hicks, the Glossary

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See also

1860 murders in the United States

19th-century executions by New York (state)

People executed by the United States federal government by hanging

Piracy in the Atlantic Ocean

Piracy in the Pacific Ocean

References