Camorra

The Camorra is an Italian Mafia-typecrime syndicate, or secret society, that originated in the region of Campania and its capital Naples. It is one of the oldest and largest criminal organizations in Italy, dating back to the 16th century. Unlike the pyramidal structure of the Sicilian Mafia, the Camorra's organizational structure is more horizontal than vertical. Consequently, individual Camorra clans act independently of each other, and are more prone to feuding among themselves.

Background

The first official use of the word dates from 1735, when a royal decree authorised the establishment of eight gambling houses in Naples. The word is almost certainly a blend of "capo" (boss) and a Neapolitan street game, the "morra". (In this game, two persons wave their hands simultaneously, while a crowd of surrounding gamblers guess, in chorus, at the total number of fingers exposed by the principal players.) This activity was prohibited by the local government, and some people started making the players pay for being “protected” against the passing police.

Camorra (1986 film)

Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime) (Italian: Un complicato intrigo di donne, vicoli e delitti) is a 1986 Italian crime film directed by Lina Wertmüller. It was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival.

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Gang War in Naples

Camorra, internationally released as Gang War in Naples, is a 1972 Italian crime-drama film written and directed by Pasquale Squitieri.

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Scar

Scars are areas of fibrous tissue (fibrosis) that replace normal skin after injury. A scar results from the biological process of wound repair in the skin and other tissues of the body. Thus, scarring is a natural part of the healing process. With the exception of very minor lesions, every wound (e.g., after accident, disease, or surgery) results in some degree of scarring. An exception to this are animals with complete regeneration, which regrow tissue without scar formation.

Scar tissue is composed of the same protein (collagen) as the tissue that it replaces, but the fiber composition of the protein is different; instead of a random basketweave formation of the collagen fibers found in normal tissue, in fibrosis the collagen cross-links and forms a pronounced alignment in a single direction. This collagen scar tissue alignment is usually of inferior functional quality to the normal collagen randomised alignment. For example, scars in the skin are less resistant to ultraviolet radiation, and sweat glands and hair follicles do not grow back within scar tissues. A myocardial infarction, commonly known as a heart attack, causes scar formation in the heart muscle, which leads to loss of muscular power and possibly heart failure. However, there are some tissues (e.g. bone) that can heal without any structural or functional deterioration.

Scarred (EP)

Scarred is an EP by the aggrotech band Combichrist.

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Scarred (album)

Scarred is a live album by English musician Gary Numan. The album was released in January 2003 by Eagle Records and is a recording of Numan's 20 October 2000 Brixton Academy concert, which was a warm-up concert for his Pure Tour. An enhanced CD was also released containing videos of "Pure", "Rip" and "Cars". The inside cover contain a fold out poster which on one side contains a recount of a member from the band Fear Factory when he met Numan. On the other side is a poster with 9 individual pictures of Numan in concert.

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All tracks written by Gary Numan except where noted.

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Disc two