Kidnapped (novel) Kidnapped (novel) Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, written as a boys' novel and first published in the magazine "Young Folks" from May to July 1886. The novel has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges, and Hilary Mantel. A sequel, "Catriona", was published in 1893. The narrative is written in English with some dialogue in Lowland Scots. "Kidnapped" is set around real 18th-century Scottish events, notably the "Appin murder", which occurred in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745. Many of the characters
Hero (title) created by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on 16 April 1934. The identifying badge, the "Gold Star Medal", was not created until 1 August 1939. The title was awarded for ""personal or collective deeds of heroism rendered to the USSR or socialist society"" and it was awarded to both military personnel and civilians. The second hero title was "Hero of Socialist Labor", also created by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, was established on 27 December 1938. Its badge, the "Hammer and Sickle Medal", was created on 22 May