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There was a man in London 300 years ago called Jonathan Wild. He lived at a time robbery and violent crimes were rampant in the city, day and night. The

DBusiness Magazine Jonathan Wild // Photo courtesy of ARCH Cutting Tools Frank Whalen and Jonathan Wild have been promoted to regional sales manager roles for Bloomfield Hills-based ARCH Cutting Tools, which is known for creating and manufacturing cutting tools. Whalen’s work with ARCH began in 2015, when he worked at a company acquired by ARCH in 2019. He brings three decades of experience in cutting, tools distribution, and manufacturing. He will manage the company’s central region, which...

Jack Sheppard, byname of John Sheppard, (born December 1702, Stepney, Eng.—died Nov. 16, 1724, London), 18th-century English thief who managed four spectacular escapes from London prisons and became a favourite figure in verse, popular plays, romances, and burlesques. His father having died when he was a child, Sheppard was brought up in a workhouse; he learned to read and write but fell into the company of thieves and prostitutes in Drury Lane and turned to a life of petty crime. On April...