Son of Neapolitan parents who emigrated to the US during the last decade of the 19th century, Alphonse Gabriel Capone , Al Capone , was born on January 17, 1899 in New York. After being expelled from school at the age of 14 for hitting a teacher, he worked various jobs until he met Johnny Torrio ,
After a convulsive period that coincided with the validity of the Volstead Act (better known as Dry Law) in which the American mafia made gold, but in which the streets of Chicago and New York were littered with corpses in the struggle for control of organized crime, the main mafia families of the c
By Rainer Sousa The glamorization of the material culture of other peoples is a very common practice in many strongholds of western culture. Permeated by an interest that intensified in the 19th century, with the imperialist wave that determined the arrival of colonists in different parts of the pla
We moved to Havana in the 18th century, there we have an Alicante man, from Petrer, Juan de Miralles Trailhon . In 1740 he had arrived in Cuba with a small fortune that served him to court, and later be able to marry, Mª Josefa Eligio de la Puente , the most desired single woman on the entire island