The nation was eventually liberated from what they had wrought by a string of circumstances, including an extraordinary economic crisis in the late 1980s and the underrated fact that old men eventually die.
In June, she came before the Richmond County Court for the first in a string of trials nearly as extraordinary as the murders themselves.
And in light of the Tea Party's recent string of extraordinary electoral victories, there is now little doubt that those principles do indeed resonate with significant swaths of the American population.
She has had an extraordinary year with a string of hits - "California Gurls," "Teenage Dream," "Firework," and "E.T".
Everyone that is, apart from Lord Coe, who managed to put on the London 2012 Olympics without sending a single email - an achievement that strikes me as even more extraordinary than winning a string of gold medals.
That's not just because of a string of world-class rapids, but also because of their extraordinary location: the source of the Nile.
One of Britain's leading housing repair companies, which is funded by taxpayers' money, is at the centre of extraordinary fraud, bribery and corruption allegations involving contracts with a string of public authorities.
He has worked to keep minor offenders out of prison and to help ex-inmates find jobs.In a string of pre-election rallies he spent no time attacking Mr Obama an extraordinary omission for a Republican.
"Ronan Farrow's extraordinary, revelatory reporting for the New Yorker has helped to propel a string of other investigations, breakthroughs and overdue conversations," Casey Bloys, HBO's president of programming, said in a press release announcing the three-year deal.
