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"Michael George Thevis (February 25, 1932 – November 20,BOP inmate Locator 2013) was an American millionaire businessman, pornographer and convicted murderer. After escaping from prison on April 28, 1978, he was put on the FBI Most Wanted List.The Washington Post 'I was the GM of Pornography', November 11, 1978The Daily Beast The Scarface of Sex: The Millionaire Playboy Who Murdered His Way to the Top of Porn, June 16, 2017 Early years Thevis was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, and raised by his Greek immigrant grandparents after his parents separated. He dropped out of high school at the age of 17 and hitched his way to Atlanta in 1951 where he completed high school and enrolled in Georgia Tech, although he would leave before graduating to become the manager of a newsstand, earning $50 a week. While young, he served as an altar boy and had thoughts of entering the priesthood. However, he grew up very poor and after being convicted of attempted robbery, he reconsidered his future. At the age of 19, he married Joan, three years his junior, and fathered 5 children: George, Christina, twins Tony and Stephanie, and Jason. Career Thevis was in the pornography business and made a fortune with peep show machines.Newser.com He Made Millions Off Porn. And Killed to Keep It That Way: Meet Michael Thevis, the 'Scarface of Sex', June 20, 2017 He was a millionaire by age 37. He was also involved in music recording: rock group Flood recorded a soundtrack for the US release of the martial arts movie Blood of the Dragon starring Jimmy Wang Yu, which was produced by author William Diehl. Flood disbanded when Thevis' GRC Records label folded after his arrest. Other artists who recorded for GRC included Sammy Johns (million-seller "Chevy Van"), Moe Bandy and Loleatta Holloway. He commissioned one of the largest residences to be built in Atlanta in 1972, a 30-room British Tudor mansion called "Lion's Gate." Lion's Gate was designed by Robert M. Green, an Atlanta architect who studied under Frank Lloyd Wright, and was originally valued at an estimated $3.3 million. During the 1990s, the Thevis mansion was the home of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown. High level associations Once imprisoned, Thevis was able to secure help from Congressman Andrew Young (D-GA), who contacted Norman Carlson, chief of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, on behalf of Thevis. Having just been appointed United States Ambassador to the United Nations by newly elected President Carter, Young wrote to Carlson on his new stationery, convincing him that Thevis needed to be moved in order to receive appropriate medical attention.The New York Times Porn free, June 15, 1978 See also *List of fugitives from justice who are no longer sought References Category:1932 births Category:2013 deaths Category:American criminals Category:American male criminals Category:American murderers Category:American pornographers Category:Formerly wanted fugitives "
"The Expedition to Samosata was undertaken by Baldwin I of Jerusalem following his ascension to co-regent of Edessa as a part of the First Crusade. His main goal was to eliminate the Emirate of Samosata as a commercial and military rival of the Edessene state. The expedition was carried out from 14 to 20 February 1098. Circumstances of the War Baldwin decided upon his ascension of co-regent of Edessa that Samosata would have to be eliminated in order for his new county to fully control the surrounding countryside and to establish unbroken communications with Byzantium in the west and the crusaders sieging Antioch in the south. The Armenian, Christian inhabitants of Edessa enthusiastically supported his plan, and the main part of their military accompanied him. He set out on 14 February, also accompanied by an Armenian princeling, Constantine of Gargar. The Conflict Despite the help of the Edessene militia, the expedition was not to turn out favorably for Baldwin. The Edessenes were poor, inexperienced soldiers, and the company was quickly caught in an ambush by the Turks of Samosata, who slew around a thousand of them in the ensuing battle. Baldwin, however, did manage to capture and garrison the village of St. John, which was close to Balduk's capital. From this point, he was able to control the flow of the Turks in and out of the city, resulting in a decline in Turkish raids into the Edessene countryside. References Sources Category:First Crusade Category:1098 in Europe "
"William J. Brown (died 1970) was an American architect based in Cedar Rapids in the U.S. state of Iowa. He is also known by his full name, William Jay Brown. William J. Brown studied architecture at the University of Illinois. He worked for prominent architects in Chicago and New York including Holabird & Roche, Kenneth M. Murchison, and John Russell Pope. He and his older brother Frederick G. Brown established the Brown Brothers architectural firm. One of their first projects, in 1910, was the Knights of Pythias Hall, but in 1911 Frederick died. William J. Brown stayed and supervised the completion of the Knights of Pythias Building in 1912. He later was partner, along with Edward H. Healey, in the firm Brown and Healy / Brown and Healey, which was active in the 1950s. The firm was later Brown, Healey, and Bock. Yet later it was Brown, Healey, Stone and Sauer. Grant Vocational High School Works include: *Ausadie Building, 845 First Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA, (Brown, William J.), NRHP- listed *Brown Apartments, 1234 4th Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA, (Brown, William J.), NRHP-listed *St. James United Methodist Church (1952), 1430 Ellis Blvd NW, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, NRHP-listed *Franklin Middle School, a contributing building in NRHP-listed B Avenue NE Historic District, Cedar Rapids. *Asbury United Methodist (1959) *St. Paul's United Methodist, Education wing addition *First Presbyterian Church, Education wing addition *Kenwood Presbyterian Church *St. Michael's Episcopal Church *Grant Vocational High School (1915), 346 2nd Ave., SW, Cedar Rapids, Iowa *Consistory Building, Cedar Rapids, Iowa *the Memorial building and City Hall on Mays Island, Cedar Rapids? *Armstrong Hall and perhaps more buildings, in NRHP-listed Cornell College-Mount Vernon Historic District, at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa References Category:American architects Category:Architects from Iowa Category:1970 deaths Category:Year of birth missing "