The term bandit,from the Italian bandito, originally meant an exile, banished man, or outlaw, and hence, as persons outlawed frequently adopted the profession of brigand or highwayman, the word came to be synonymous with brigand, and was around the late 19th century applied to members of the organized gangs which then infested some districts of Italy, Sicily, Spain, Greece, and Turkey. Research Bandit
Pancho Francisco Villa (real name Doroteo Arango) was a Mexican revolutionary. he was born in 1878 and died in 1923. At sixteen he killed a man for molesting his sister, changed his name to Francisco Villa fled to the mountains and lived as a bandit, cattle-rustler and sometimes labourer. In 1910, while working as a labourer he was persuaded to join the Madero revolution against President Porfirio Diaz. Following the revolution's success, Villa stayed in the irregular army, being court-martialled for insubordination in 1912, imprisoned and subsequently escaping and fleeing to the USA, only to return to Mexico in 1913 following the assassination of Francisco Madero, joining Venustiano Carranza against Huerta, his cavalry achieving fame. Villa returned to being a bandit following Carranza's victory, wanting power for himself, and in 1920 when Carranza was overthrown made peace with the new government and accepted a large ranch in return for giving up politics. He was assassinated in Parral, Chihuahua in 1923. Research Pancho Villa
Burt Reynolds (Burton Leon Reynolds Junior) is an American actor. He was born in 1936 at Waycross, Georgia. He tried a career in American football, but gave up the chance for acting after a car accident injured his knee. He then began to act in theater plays. During the 1960s, he made his way in Hollywood by appearing in television series, until his great chance in the 1972 film Deliverance. He posed naked for the central page of the 'Cosmopolitan' magazine and he became a box office hit in several films that explored his dexterity in dangerous scenes and his malicious and cynic personality. In 1977, his film Smokey and the Bandit was well attended and to this today it is one of the most-seen films. He proved his other talents behind the cameras in the 1981 'Sharky's Machine', based on William Diehl's romance, in which he left the image of good ol'boy and began to make more sophisticated films. During the filming of the 1984 movie 'City Heat' beside Clint Eastwood, he was hurt by a chair and broke his jaw. In 1990, his
career won a new breath with the television's series 'Evening Shade', but a troubled divorce interfered. Burt Reynolds's big comeback came in 1998, following the 1997 film Boogie Nights that led to further big roles. Research Burt Reynolds
The Bandit Virus is a computer virus which infects .COM, .EXE and overlay files including COMMAND. COM. The virus is loaded into memory by executing an infected program and then affects the computer' s runtime operation and corrupts data files. Research Bandit Virus
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