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"Worksop ( ) is the largest town in the Bassetlaw district of the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire in the East Midlands of England. Worksop lies on the River Ryton, and is located at the northern edge of Sherwood Forest. Worksop is located east-south-east of Sheffield, with a population of 41,820.citypopulation.info It lies close to Nottinghamshire’s borders with South Yorkshire, and Derbyshire. Worksop, a market town, has become a commuter town as a result of its geographic location and ease of access to major motorways and rail links. Worksop is known as the "Gateway to The Dukeries", because of the now four obsolete ducal principal sites of which were closely located next to each other, south of the town. These four ducal locations were; Clumber House, Thoresby Hall, Welbeck Abbey and Worksop Manor. Other houses such as Rufford Abbey and Hodsock Priory are also just a few miles away. Worksop is twinned with the German town Garbsen. History Evidence that Worksop existed before the Norman conquest of England in 1066 is provided by the Domesday Book of 1086: :"In Werchesope, (Worksop) Elsi (son of Caschin) had three carucates of land to be taxed. Land to eight ploughs. Roger has one plough in the demesne there, and twenty-two sokemen who hold twelve oxgangs of this land, and twenty-four villanes and eight bordars having twenty-two ploughs, and seven acres of meadow. Wood pasture two miles long, and three quarentens broad."White, Robert (1875) Worksop, The Dukery, and Sherwood Forest. Transcription at Nicholson, AP: Nottinghamshire History (Accessed 24 December 2005). In about 1103, William de Lovetot established a castle and the Augustinian priory at Worksop. Subsequently, Worksop grew into a market town. A skirmish occurred in the area during the Wars of the Roses on 16 December 1460, commonly known as the Battle of Worksop. The building of the Chesterfield Canal in 1777, and the subsequent construction of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1849, both of which passed through the settlement, led to a degree of growth. Discovery of sizeable coal seams further increased interest in the area. Coal mining provided thousands of jobs in and around Worksop for most of the 19th and 20th centuries. Additionally, much of the area being heavily forested, timber was always an important industry - supplying railway sleepers to the North Midland Railway, timber for the construction of railway carriages and packing cases for the Sheffield cutlery industry. The town also became notable for the manufacture of Worksop Windsor Chairs. Timber firms in the town included Benjamin Garside’s woodyard and Godley and Goulding, situated between Eastgate and the railway.Stroud, G. (2002) Nottinghamshire Extensive Urban Survey, Worksop. English Heritage The closure in the 1990s of the pits, compounding the earlier decline of the timber trade and other local industry, resulted in high unemployment and the soaring of local drug abuse. Unemployment levels in the area are now lower than the national average, owing to large number of distribution and local manufacturing companies, including Premier Foods, Wilko, RDS Transport, Pandrol UK Ltd and Laing O'Rourke. Transport=Road= Worksop lies on the A57 and A60 with links to the A1 and M1. =Rail= Worksop is on the Sheffield-Lincoln line, with direct trains running to Sheffield, Leeds. Services call at Retford, Gainsborough, Saxilby, Shireoaks, Kiveton Park, Kiveton Bridge, Woodhouse and Darnall. These services are run by Northern. Worksop is also the terminus of the Robin Hood line to Nottingham via Mansfield, a service run by East Midlands Railway. =Buses= Bus services provided by Stagecoach East Midlands operate in the town to Doncaster, Shireoaks, Langold, Harworth, Bawtry, Retford, Blyth, Bircotes, Clowne, Tickhill, Chesterfield, Ollerton, and Nottingham; Stagecoach also run internal services within Worksop. Education=Primary= *Gateford Park Primary School *Haggonfields Primary and Nursery School *Holy Family Catholic Primary School *Norbridge Academy *Kingston Park Academy *Langold Dyscarr Community School *Prospect Hill Infant and Nursery School *Prospect Hill junior school *Ramsden Primary School *Redlands Primary And Nursery School *Sparken Hill Academy *Sir Edmund Hillary Primary School *St. Augustine's School *St Anne's C Of E Voluntary aided Primary School *St John's C of E Academy *St Luke's C of E Aided Primary School *Worksop Priory C of E Primary Academy *The Primary School of St Mary and St Martin = Secondary = *Outwood Academy Portland *Outwood Academy Valley *Worksop College =Further education= *North Nottinghamshire College *Outwood Post-16 centre Healthcare Worksop is served by Bassetlaw District General Hospital, part of the Doncaster and Bassetlaw NHS Foundation Trust. Bassetlaw Hospital treats ~33,000 people each year, as well as ~38,000 emergencies. Bassetlaw Hospital is one of the University of Sheffield Teaching hospitals Medical School. Mental Health services in Worksop are provided by Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust who provide both in-patient and community services. Wards run by Nottinghamshire Healthcare provide training for medical students at the University of Nottingham. Local economy The local economy in Worksop is dominated by service industries, manufacturing and distribution. Major employers in the area include Premier Foods, Greencore, Wilko, RDS Transport (the Flying Fridge), B&Q;, MAKE polymers, OCG Cacao, part of Cargill, Pandrol, GCHQ and the NHS (Doncaster and Bassetlaw NHS Trust and Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust). Religion St Anne's Church Worksop has three churches which are all on the National Heritage List for England. Officially titled the Priory Church of Saint Mary and Saint Cuthbert, is the Anglican parish church usually known as Worksop Priory. It was an Augustinian Priory founded in 1103. The church has a nave and detached gatehouse. Monks at the priory made the Tickhill Psalter, an illuminated manuscripts of the medieval period, now held in New York Public Library. After the dissolution of the Monasteries the east end of the church fell into disrepair, but the townspeople were granted the nave as a parish church. The eastern parts of the building have been restored in several phases, the most recent being in the 1970s when the architect Lawrence King rebuilt the crossing. St. Anne's Church is an Anglican parish church and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. The church was built in 1911 by the Lancaster architects Austin and Paley. The church has an historic pipe organ originally built by Gray and Davison in 1852 for Clapham Congregational Church. St. John's Church is a Parish church built between 1867 and 1868 by architect Robert Clarke. Places of interest Mr Straw's House, the family home of the Straw family, was inherited by the Straw brothers, William and Walter when their parents died in the 1930s. The house remained unaltered until the National Trust acquired it in the 1990s and opened it to the public.Mr Straw's House by The National Trust, accessed 28 May 2006. Clumber Park, south of Worksop is a country park, also owned by the National Trust, and is open to the public. Notable people *James Walsham Baldock (1822–1898), artist *Maurice Bembridge, golfer *Ian Bennett, footballer *George Best, former goalkeeper with Blackpool *Basil Boothroyd, humorous writer *Bruce Dickinson, singer with Iron Maiden *Craig Disley, footballer *Mark Foster, golfer *Anne Foy, former BBC Children's TV presenter *Alexina Graham, model and Victoria's Secret Angel *Gwen Grant, writer *Henry Haslam, footballer and Olympic gold medalist at the 1900 Olympics *Sarah-Jane Honeywell, BBC Children's TV presenter *William Henry Johnson, recipient of a Victoria Cross *Mick Jones, Sheffield United and Leeds United striker during the 1960s and 70s *Jade Moore, footballer *Liam Palmer, Sheffield Wednesday footballer *John Parr, musician *Henry Pickard, cricketer *Donald Pleasence, actor *Graham Taylor, former England manager *Danny Thomas, footballer, played for Coventry City F.C. & Tottenham Hotspur *Darren Ward, former football goalkeeper *Lee Westwood, golfer (reached world number one in 2010, 2011) *Elliott Whitehouse, footballer *Mary (Barnard) Williams (1609–1676), wife of Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island *Chris Wood, footballer References=NotesSources= External links *Worksop, The Dukery and Sherwood Forest, by Robert White (1875) *Worksop Guardian *Bassetlaw District Council *MyWorksop Category:Market towns in Nottinghamshire Category:Unparished areas in Nottinghamshire Category:Bassetlaw District "
"Benjamin Nathaniel Smith (March 22, 1978 – July 4, 1999) was an American spree killer and member of the neo-Nazi World Church of the Creator. During the weekend of July 4, 1999, Smith targeted members of racial and ethnic minorities in random drive-by shootings in Illinois and Indiana, after which he committed suicide. Early life Smith was born and raised in Wilmette, Illinois. He attended high school at New Trier Township High School. During this time he accosted a Skokie, Illinois police officer and plead guilty to two counts of misdemeanor battery.http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1999-07-25/news/9907250249_1_hale- supremacist-young-man He transferred to Mary D. Bradford High School in Kenosha for his senior year. He did not pose for a photograph in his senior yearbook, but in his class statement he wrote, "Sic semper tyrannis" (Thus always to tyrants). This phrase was shouted by John Wilkes Booth after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. After graduating, Smith attended the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Smith dropped out of the university in 1998 after several conflicts with campus authorities. After dropping out, he transferred to Indiana University (Bloomington), where he studied criminal justice. Police reported that Smith was known for passing out hate-filled fliers against Jews, blacks and Asians on university campuses. In October 1998, Smith was the subject of a story on his university's public broadcasting station.(July 6, 1999). Suspected shooter said his hate-filled leaflets spoke 'the truth'. CNN. Shooting spree Smith was a follower of the white supremacist organization now known as the Creativity Movement, and was a devoted disciple of the group's leader Matthew Hale. Two days after Hale was denied a license to practice law in Illinois, Smith loaded his light blue Ford Taurus with guns and ammunition and ventured on a three-day two-state shooting spree, during which he killed two people and wounded nine others.Scharnberg, Kirsten (April 27, 2004). Double talk disguises call to arms. Chicago Tribune. Starting on the evening of Friday, July 2, Smith shot and wounded nine Orthodox Jews in drive-by shootings in the West Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago. Smith then shot and killed former Northwestern University basketball coach Ricky Byrdsong, an African-American, in front of two of his three children while they were walking outside Byrdsong's Skokie, Illinois home. On Saturday, Smith traveled to Urbana, Springfield and later Decatur, where he shot and wounded an African-American minister. On Sunday, July 4, Smith traveled to Bloomington, Indiana, where he killed Won-Joon Yoon, a 26-year-old Korean graduate student in Economics at Indiana University, who was on his way to the Korean United Methodist Church.Michael H. Stone & Gary Brucato. The New Evil: Understanding the Emergence of Modern Violent Crime (Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2019), pp. 74-78. Smith also shot at but missed another nine people. On Sunday, July 4, while fleeing the police in a high-speed chase on a southern Illinois highway, Smith shot himself twice in the head and crashed his automobile into a metal post. He then shot himself again, in the heart, this time fatally. He was later pronounced dead at the hospital. It is widely believed that Smith's crimes were related to his affiliation with the World Church of the Creator, which views him as a martyr. The group argued that Smith believed himself to be a soldier of the Racial Holy War movement. His actions were indelibly fueled by racial hatred. A chapter of Lone Wolf (a study of spree killers), by Pan Pantziarka, is devoted to Smith and his crimes. Invisible Revolution, a documentary by filmmaker Beverly Peterson, features an interview with Smith less than two weeks before his killing spree. The film includes scenes of Smith distributing World Church of the Creator leaflets in his home town and saying, "`If they violate our constitutional rights and say we can't put out our literature, we have no choice but to resort to acts of violence and really to plunge this country into a terrorist war they've never seen before." See also * Ben Klassen * Buford O. Furrow, Jr. * Creativity Movement * Matthew F. Hale * Wade Michael Page * List of rampage killers (religious, political or racial crimes) References Category:1978 births Category:1999 deaths Category:1999 murders in the United States Category:American white supremacists Category:American neo-Nazis Category:American spree killers Category:Antisemitic attacks and incidents in the United States Category:Attacks in the United States in 1999 Category:Creativity (religion) Category:Crimes in Illinois Category:Drive-by shootings Category:Hate crimes Category:Murder–suicides in Illinois Category:Murderers who committed suicide Category:New Trier High School alumni Category:People from Wilmette, Illinois Category:Racially motivated violence against African Americans Category:Racially motivated violence against Asian- Americans Category:Racially motivated violence in the United States Category:Perpetrators of religiously motivated violence in the United States Category:Suicides by firearm in Illinois Category:1999 mass shootings in the United States "
"A spree killer is someone who kills two or more victims in a short time, in multiple locations. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics defines a spree killing as "killings at two or more locations with almost no time break between murders". Definition According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the general definition of spree killer is a person (or more than one person) who commits two or more murders without a cooling-off period; the lack of a cooling-off period marks the difference between a spree killer and a serial killer. The category has, however, been found to be of no real value to law enforcement, because of definitional problems relating to the concept of a "cooling-off period".Morton, Robert J., and Mark A. Hilts (eds.) Serial Murder – Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives for Investigators , National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, Federal Bureau of Investigation. Accessed July 4, 2009. Serial killers commit clearly separate murders, happening at different times. Mass murderers are defined by one incident, with no distinctive time period between the murders. How to distinguish a spree killer from a mass murderer, or from a serial killer, is subject to considerable debate, and the terms are not consistently applied, even within the academic literature. For example, The Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment lists five different categories of spree killers and cites Mark O. Barton as an example of the second one.Levinson, David (ed.): Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment, Vol. 4; Berkshire Publishing Group, 2002. p. 1565 He is also noted with other mass murderers, such as Patrick Sherrill, in the respective entry about mass murder.Levinson, p. 1038. In The Anatomy Of Motive, John E. Douglas cites Charles Starkweather and Andrew Cunanan as examples of spree killers,Douglas, John E. & Olshaker, Mark: The Anatomy Of Motive; Simon and Schuster, 1999. while Jack Levin calls Starkweather a mass murdererLevin, Jack & Fox, James Alan: Mass Murder: America's Growing Menace, Berkley Books, 1991. and Cunanan a serial killer.Levin, Jack: Serial Killers and Sadistic Murderers, Prometheus Books, 2008. p. 49. In Controversial Issues in Criminology, Fuller and Hickey write that "[t]he element of time involved between murderous acts is primary in the differentiation of serial, mass, and spree murderers", later elaborating that spree killers "will engage in the killing acts for days or weeks" while the "methods of murder and types of victims vary". Andrew Cunanan is given as an example of spree killing, while Charles Whitman is mentioned in connection with mass murder, and Jeffrey Dahmer with serial killing.Fuller, John R. & Hickey, Eric W.: Controversial Issues in Criminology; Allyn and Bacon, 1999. pp. 36. In Serial Murder, Ronald M. Holmes and Stephen T. Holmes define spree murder as "the killing of three or more people within a 30-day period" and add that killing sprees are "usually accompanied by the commission of another felony."Holmes, R. M, & Holmes, S. T.: Serial Murder; SAGE Publications, 2010. pp. 35. They cite Charles Starkweather and the Beltway Snipers as examples of spree killers.Holmes, R. M, & Holmes, S. T.: Serial Murder; SAGE Publications, 2010. pp. 36. Under this particular definition of spree murder, Richard Chase, who is usually labelled as a serial killer, would actually be a spree killer because he committed his murders within a 30-day period. Ronald and Stephen Holmes define serial murder as "the killing of three or more people over a period of more than 30 days, with a significant cooling-off period between the killings."Holmes, R. M, & Holmes, S. T.: Serial Murder; SAGE Publications, 2010. pp. 6. Under this definition, Andrew Cunanan would be categorized as a serial killer and not a spree killer. Douglas wrote that the identity of a serial killer is generally unknown until they are caught, and a mass murderer's identity is learned only after they have committed the crime. The identity of the spree killer, on the other hand, usually becomes known by police while the spree is still in progress.Douglas, p. 192. Another term, rampage killer, has sometimes been used to describe spree killers, but it does not differentiate between mass murderers and spree killers.sfgate.com Jul. 18, 1997 See also * Active shooter * Going postal * List of rampage killers * Mass shooting * Massacre * Running amok * Thrill killing References Further reading Category:Murder "