who was jacob riis and why was he important?
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 Hergé 's decision to name a character Topolino was a reference to Walt Disney , whose character of Mickey Mouse was known as Topolino in Italian . Hergé included a reference to his friend and colleague , the former opera singer Edgar P. Jacobs , in the story , adding a figure named Jacobini to the billing on the opera performance alongside Castafiore . He also inserted a cameo of himself as a reporter into the final scene of the story . 

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 Taylor Lautner as Jacob Black , a cheerful companion who eases Bella 's pain over losing Edward . He reveals to Bella that he is part of a pack of werewolves whose main goal is to protect her from the vampires Laurent and Victoria . 

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 Taylor Lautner as Jacob Black , an old childhood friend of Bella and a member of the Quileute tribe . 

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 Byrne controlled two companies : Stramsact in the UK and Europe , and Seltaeb in the USA . He invited five friends to become partners — four of whom were unknown to either Jacobs or Epstein — with each investing around $ 1 @,@ 600 . They were : Mark Warman , Simon Miller @-@ Munday , John Fenton ( a business acquaintance of Jacobs ) Peregrine Eliot ( heir to the ninth Earl of St Germans ) and Malcolm Evans ( not to be confused with Mal Evans , the Beatles ' roadie ) . 

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 During World War II PRR carried troops and matériel for the Allied war effort , and the Curve was under armed guard . The military intelligence arm of Nazi Germany , the Abwehr , plotted to sabotage important industrial assets in the United States in a project code @-@ named Operation Pastorius . In June 1942 four men were brought by submarine and landed on Long Island , planning to destroy such sites as the Curve , Hell Gate Bridge , Alcoa aluminum factories and locks on the Ohio River . The would @-@ be saboteurs were quickly apprehended by the Federal Bureau of Investigation after one , George John Dasch , turned himself in . 
