Why Was Charles I Called Lucky

Salvatore Lucania was born on November 24, 1897 in Sicily, Italy; almost ten years later, he began a new life of crime and prosperity in New York City’s lower east side. Upon arrival, he could not speak english; he bullied the other kids into paying him for protection and participated in drug dealing. One day, Lucania was abducted, beaten, stabbed, and left for dead; miraculously, he survived. This rather fortunate recovery led him to become known as Lucky Luciano (“Lucky Luciano Biography.com.” Edited by Biography.com, The Biography.Com website, A&E Television Networks, 17 June 2015, www.biography.com/people/lucky-luciano -9388350). In 1916, he became the leader of the Five Points Gang and continued to make a name for himself. During these early years, Luciano was in and out of jail-- mostly for getting caught dealing drugs.

John Pym felt it was necessary to issue King Charles I with the Grand Remonstrance because he believed that Charles was abusing his power. Pym planned to use the Grand Remonstrance as a part of his campaign to transfer control of the armed forces to Parliament by undermining the confidence and power in the King (as well as his ministers), and by further demonstrating the integrity of Parliament. The Parliament had previously gained power over Queen Elizabeth, and intended to keep it, which was obviously not in Charles’ mind to do so. Charles I believed in the Divine Right of Kings (although Parliament doesn’t), meaning he believed that his power was given to him by god, therefore giving him more reason to not want to share it. This resulted

He grew up in torrance amidst poverty and anti-Italian bias. Louie got in the habit of running outside the law. He started smoking when he was 5 years old and drinking when he was 8. He stole anything he wanted mostly food, money, and whatever else he felt like he should have. He ran small scams and vandalized property. Pete (Louie's older brother) forced Louis to join the track-and-field team at school. Louie excelled and soon gave up his habits for running circles around a track. He was given the nickname the “Torrance Tornado,” he became a high school phenomenon and eventually earned a spot on the U.S. Olympic team. Once WWII started he joined the military as a bombardier in the Air Force.

The U-boats one of Germany’s of most intimidating naval weapons. The U-boat, also known as a submarine, which is a boat that could go underwater. The common U-boat during World War One could carry 35 men and 12 torpedoes (history.com). The Germans would use the element of surprise by torpedoing ships such as their enemies or neutral countries.For example, the ship the Lusitania, a british ocean liner that had been coming from New York to Liverpool had been torpedoed without warning, which ended up killing 1,189 people. The Germans would use the U-boat for unrestricted warfare which caused the Germans’ to have one of the most

Rulers of European countries during the 17th century had almost unlimited autonomy over their respective countries. They were the head of government in all respects, and all decisions were eventually made by them. However, along with this autonomy came responsibility in the form of the people. If the decisions of these rulers did not improve the country, the possibility existed that their power would be either curbed or taken away by the people. As ruler of England in the early 17th century, Charles Stuart believed strongly in absolute power and a king’s divine right to rule. He believed that a king was given his power by God and therefore had no reason to answer to the people. The Parliament in England at the time

The 1920s was a very eventful time period for the US crime scene. With the emergences of major crime bosses like Al Capone, Meyer Lansky, Charles Luciano, and others there was much to be done in the crime world. Charles “Lucky” Luciano (born as Salvatore Lucania) would become a key player in the reshaping and modernization of the mafia and the crime world. Young Luciano would show signs of pursuing a criminal career. His parents and family however disapproved of their son’s action and career path and essentially exiled him, respecting his family’s wishes he would later change his name from Salvatore Lucania to Charles Luciano. He also by the age of 10 he involved extortion, and thievery. Upon his arrest for the distribution of drugs in 1915, the police would offered to release him if he would tell them what he knew about the mob, Luciano however refused to talk due to the Sicilian code of silence, this action would vastly considered pivotal in fast tracking his career in

met Lucky Luciano during a fight that Meyer Lansky was having with an Irish kid.

"My objective is simple. I want to make Italy great, respected and feared," (UXL Biographies 1). This was a quote from one of the most famous dictators in Italy, Benito Mussolini. Before World War One, Mussolini was director of the Avanti, a socialist newspaper in Milan, but he began to disagree with socialists so he broke ties and joined the military, reaching the rank of corporal. After he was discharged from the army, he created the fascist party and worked towards dismantling all socialist institutions (UXL Biographies 1). Mussolini was a powerful public speaker and delivered speeches mainly about how great he would make Italy. This allowed him to gain the public’s trust, leading to him becoming Prime Minister and later the dictator of Italy (UXL Biographies 1). In April 1945, Mussolini and his mistress were fleeing anti-fascist partisans disguised as German soldiers. When they were crossing the Swiss border, him and his mistress were captured by partisans and the next day were shot and killed. (Klein 1). The assassination of Benito Mussolini was justified because of he adopted Nazi ideals about Jews and he ultimately initiated the demise of his country and followers. Despite this many believe that Mussolini actually helped Italy.

“Born of an immigrant family in Brooklyn, New York in 1899, Al Capone quit school after the sixth grade and associated with a notorious street gang, becoming accepted as a member. Johnny Torrio was the street gang leader and among the other members was Lucky Luciano, who would later attain his own notoriety.

One of the most influential and well known crime bosses during the Prohibition era, Lucky Luciano, expressed this belief in saying, “I just couldn’t understand that guy [La Guardia, a New York politician]. When we offered to make him rich he wouldn’t even

On February 9, 1942 at New York City's pier 88 crowds gathered to witness the largest ocean liner in the world, the USS Lafayette be on fire. The Normandie was intended to set sail under the U.S. flag on February 14th, 1942.9 The conversion crew requested more time on February 6th because they believed the conversion would not be completed in time, their request was denied and were put in a frantic state to complete it in time. The time given for the conversion crew did not give them enough time to clean and prepare their work places making the condition more and more unsafe until it practically became more normal to them. At approximately 2:30pm a welder in the first class lounge of the SS Normandie was put under pressure with the short time frame to complete the job and did not move the life preservers which eventually ignited the fire. The Normandie's modern firefighting system was disabled during the conversion and once the New York Fire Department arrived

The Japanese enacted their surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in an attempt to cripple the U.S. Pacific Fleet and USS California made up one of the many vessels of battleship row in the assault. The Attack commenced on December 7th, 1941 and formally thrust the United States into World War 2 on the side of the Allies. During the attack, California took two torpedoes that resulted in severe damage which created additional problems from flooding. The situation was made worse with a direct bomb hit on her deck which set off ammunition stores that claimed the lives of some fifty sailors. Beyond the flooding, the damaged warship and her crew now had to contend with fires spreading about. In all, California lost one hundred sailors in the attack and suffered over sixty wounded. Despite the damage and having flooded enough to settle on the bottom of the harbor, however, she remained repairable. An initiative to float her was put into action and in late March of 1942, this was done as her hull was lifted into dry dock for critical repair

Later on, a man, George Meyer, ran a business that wasn’t doing well financially. Herman offered George money if he killed a man by the name of Ferdinando Alfonsi. George pretended to be interested in Herman’s offer, but his intent was to get an advance; which didn’t happen. George then went to the secret service to sell them what information he had on Herman Petrillo. One secret service agent, Phillips, teamed up with Meyers

Luciano’s purpose for the national crime syndicate was to maintain peace between criminal organizations nationwide

One of the most successful Mafia bosses involved in bootlegging and prostitution was Charles "Lucky" Luciano. He was born in 1897 in Sicily, Italy. At the age of 9 he moved to the Lower East Side of New York. In 1920 he began his own prostitution