Black Hand (William Derek Hand) is a supervillain and a recurring foe to Green Lantern. Black Hand as he appears on the cover of Green Lantern vol. 5 #11 (July 2012), art by Doug Mahnke.
Black Hand was a method of extortion practiced by gangsters of the Camorra and the Mafia. American newspapers in the first half of the twentieth century sometimes made reference to an organized "Black Hand Society", a criminal enterprise composed of Italians, mainly Sicilian immigrants.
In the final issue of Blackest Night it is revealed that Black Hand is Nekron's link to the living plane. This prompts Hal Jordan to bond with the white entity of life and use it's power to resurrect Black Hand, destroying Nekron's link to the living plane, and causing the villain's defeat.
Black Hand, byname of Ujedinjenje Ili Smrt (Serbo-Croation: Union or Death), secret Serbian society of the early 20th century that used terrorist methods to promote the liberation of Serbs outside Serbia from Habsburg or Ottoman rule and was instrumental in planning the assassination of the Austrian archduke Franz ...
Unification or Death (Serbian: Ujedinjenje ili smrt, Serbian Cyrillic: Уједињење или смрт), popularly known as the Black Hand (Serbian: Crna ruka, Serbian Cyrillic: Црна рука), was a secret military society formed in 1901 by officers in the Army of the Kingdom of Serbia.
A TRADITIONALLY SPANISH, AND LATER ITALIAN, MANIFESTATION OF GANG-LIKE CRIMINALITY IS EXAMINED IN LIGHT OF ITS RESURGENCE IN NEW YORK CITY AT THE TURN OF THE 19TH CENTURY.
The Black Hand was a precursor of organized crime, although it is still a tactic practiced by the Mafia and used in organized crime to this day.
Most of the population of Serbia and neighbouring Montenegro is of South Slavic origin. Slavic tribes entered the region from the north during the 5th to 7th century ce, encountering Illyrian-speaking peoples.
According to De Administrando Imperio ( DAI ), written by the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII (912-959), the Serbs originated from the "White Serbs" who lived on the "other side of Turkey" (name used for Hungary), in the area that they called "Boiki" (Bohemia). White Serbia bordered to the Franks and White Croatia.
Bosnian Serbs are also the largest Serb community outside of Serbia itself. The main dispute in Bosnia arose from the dissolution of Yugoslavia, when most Serbs did not support the country's independence, but instead joined the Serbian war-effort to dismember Bosnia and attach Serb controlled areas to Serbia.
The Green Lantern ring is energy-based, which gives Black Bolt control over Jordan's constructs. His ring is sentient and rather intelligent, but it would take time to counteract Bolt's power. That's going to be a problem, because, without any offense or defense, Hal is going to fall quickly to Black Bolt.
John Stewart, one of the characters known as Green Lantern, is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics and was the first African-American superhero to appear in DC Comics.
There were 7 members of the Black Hand involved in the assassination plot of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. They were Muhamed Mehmedbašić, Vaso Čubrilović, Nedeljko Čabrinović, Cvjetko Popović, Trifko Grabež, and Gavrilo Princip, who succeeded in shooting the Archduke and his wife.
The Serbian government was fairly well informed of Black Hand activities. Friendly relations had fairly well cooled by 1914. The Black Hand was displeased with Prime minister Nikola Pasic. They thought he did not act aggressively enough towards the Pan-Serb cause.
Officially known as Unification or Death, the Black Hand was founded by Serbian officers in 1911, with the aim of unifying South Slavs — including Bosnians, Slovenes and Croats in Austria-Hungary — into a Greater Serb or south Slavic (Yugoslav) state.
The oldest known Slavic principality in history was Carantania, established in the 7th century by the Eastern Alpine Slavs, the ancestors of present-day Slovenes. Slavic settlement of the Eastern Alps comprised modern-day Slovenia, Eastern Friul and large parts of modern-day Austria.
The Serbs who are the oldest Slavs had inhabited the Podunavlje region – the Danube River area – the ancient Ister from the time immemorial as found in records which describe the numerous Illyric – Thracian tribes. This is today widely known and clear to every serious researcher and intellectual.
In 1929 the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes adopted the name Yugoslavia. In 1946, Yugoslavia became a socialist federation of six republics: Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Macedonia. At this time, it adopted the name Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY).
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Nonetheless, there have been three main waves of migration to Australia. The first occurred in the post-WWII period, consisting primarily of displaced persons, while the second wave in the 1960s and 1970s largely involved people who were migrating due to an economic crisis in Yugoslavia.
According to correspondence analysis, admixture analysis and Rst genetic distance, Serbian regional population samples cluster together and are closest to Montenegrins, Macedonians and Bulgarians, with Western Serbians being an intermediate between them and Croatian-Bosnian and Herzegovinian cluster.
By the early 6th century South Slavs, present throughout the Byzantine Empire in large numbers, merged with the native population (Celts, Dacians, Illyrians, Scythians, Thracians) and assimilated them, forming the base of the ethnogenesis of modern Serbs.
Nicknamed the "black hand of death" according to former gangster Rene Enriquez, this tattoo is an identifier for members of the Mexican Mafia. Enriquez told NPR in 2008 that the Mexican Mafia was one of the most influential gangs of California, having infiltrated nearly every prison in the state.
Black Hand members were arrested and tried before a Serbian court in Salonika in 1917 on fabricated charges of high treason; the Black Hand was disbanded and three of its leaders were executed. Much of what is known about the assassinations comes from these two trials and related records.