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To counter the growing threat of the Highwaymen, a Royal Act made bounty-hunting a profitable profession.

Highwaymen art, a product of Florida's history of segregation, depicts unique tropical beauty in styles ranging from self taught to sophisticated artistic expression.

Dick Turpin was the most famous highwayman who ever lived. Finally captured in York in 1739, a fluke brought about his conviction.

Dick Turpin was the most famous highwayman of eighteenth century England. Who was the man behind the myth? Was he the romantic hero of legend or a ruthless outlaw?

Suite101 sings soft and low of the gypsies, tramps, and thieves of Ireland, examining three of the most popular songs of the rogue.

When high-born William de Lacey saves a highwayman's life, he cannot guess how his own life will change.

Dick Turpin is probably the best known of Britian's Highwayman Outlaws, but who was he really?

Dick Turpin was a career criminal who stole, tortured and killed. Despite this, he is remembered as a heroic figure, and a gentleman among highwaymen.

The results of possession by the devil is explored. Puritans believe that misfortune is caused by witchcraft.

After Dick Turpin, the foreign born Claude Duval was probably England's most famous Highwayman.

Hampstead Heath is only four miles from Piccadilly Circus, the heart of London - a rural walk takes you to the haunts of 18th-century highwaymen like Dick Turpin.

George Farquhar's comedy "The Beaux' Stratagem" combines highwaymen, marriage-hunters, a French chaplain, a locked moneybox and a lot of odd disguises...

Many historic London pubs, like the Spaniard's Inn, are just a short Tube trip from the West End. Ancient in character but up to date where good food is concerned.

Though not as famous as the National Road, the Natcheze Trace was vital to the farmers and trademen in the early nineteenth century

Hanging chads, eccentric folks and funky creations are some of the free things to do and see in Tallahassee.

Knowing the proper terms is essential to writing, reading, analyzing, or discussing poetry effectively. Here are the definitions of some the most common poetry terms.

A classic American poem, hauntingly illustrated by Ryan Price.

Ibn Battuta is said to be the greatest explorer of the Old World. For the first time, his inaugural pilgrimmage - in all its glory - is shared on the IMAX screen.

Together the brothers Henry and John Fielding created London's first police force.

Brief biography of English poet and dramatist John Gay, best known for his ballad-opera satire, collaborated work with Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift.

Reviled as devilish stranglers, the Thugs were in truth brigands suppressed by the British Empire.

Black Bart terrorized the West Coast and Wells Fargo Stage Lines for eight years by robbing 28 stages with a shotgun and leaving poems as his calling card.

Associated with the French Revolution, the guillotine was predated by earlier devices invented for the same grisly purpose.

Although he came from humble beginnings, Johnny Cash became a pioneer of modern country music.

From Worms to Puke, there are some zany place names around the world that are not very enticing. Here are some of the most unusual.

Brief biography and works of R.D. Blackmore, 19th century's English novelist and poet.

Spartacus was from what is now the Balkans. In 73 BC, he and seventy gladiators escaped from their barracks in Capua.

Locked in a labyrinth, the Minotaur demanded young men and women to eat until Athenian hero Theseus defeated it.

The Penny Dreadful was Great Britain's bridge between serialized literature and the comic book. The genre has proven to have a long reaching influence from EC to Vertigo

The Traveling Wilburys, with two albums in two years and the hit single "Handle With Care," brought together rock legends for The Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 and Vol. 3.

John Gay's play The Beggar's Opera forwards the theory that, in the absence of society, one's social merit is not differentiated.

By the 11th Century, Europeans began to charter towns and cities, necessitating a legal system that differed radically from the feudal and post-barbarian legal codes.

Brief biography of composer Reginald De Koven and the wedding song "Oh, Promise Me" taken from his Operetta "Robin Hood." Clement Scott wrote the lyrics.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, children read the lurid tales of felons in the hope that the stories of their gruesome ends would act as an example.

Looking for ghost tours? Consider checking out Tours of Terror and exploring one of their haunted destinations for horror fans.

With harp and fiddle, the Irish sing of battles won and lives lost. Below are the stories behind four of the most popular: The Patriot Game, Mrs. McGrath, and others.

The directorial debut of Ridley Scott's son, Jake, is a jostling tale of deceit, chicanery, and robbery in 1740s London. It's also a morality tale hidden within a comedy.

Scholars have long wondered if Lewis was a victim of foul play, or if he committed suicide. In 2009, the 200th anniversary of his death, the debate intensified.

Dr Joseph Ignace Guillotin will forever be credited with the guillotine, poor man, but it could have been named after the much earlier Scottish Maiden or Halifax Gibbet.

Over the centuries, the Uffington White Horse of Britain has drawn the interest of historians, tourists and archaeological preservationists.

Though the gothic subculture sprang largely from musical movements, the goth look is nearly as important, and can be just as variable as the music.

Not every great Irish song is from Ireland. In fact, some of the most famous were not written in Ireland at all. Read on for their stories.

A damsel in distress does not equate to a stupid woman, so a writer must be careful to draw the reader into the experience without insulting her intelligence.

Guide to the PAX television series Young Blades, which was based on Alexandre Dumas's novel The Three Musketeers and stars Tobias Mehler and Karen Cliche.

Two of them were apparently old haunts of Dick Turpin but today they are amongst four of the nicest pubs in Hampstead and Highgate, all of them close to Hampstead Heath.

Evidence shows more people were traveling during the 16th century in France than in previous centuries and also that advances in the travel industry were being made.