Sir Walter Scott was a pioneer of historical fiction. His works include Ivanhoe (one could call it the precursor to the more modern Robin Hood) and Rob Roy. An extremely

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In 2010, the New York police arrested Atul Shah and Mahaveer Kankariya of Dialite Imports, a wholesale diamond business in Manhattan, and charged them with staging a robbery at their

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