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    awake he spurred his horse into a gallop after a few more hasty shots his would be assassins gave up. Ironias wondered why there would be bandits as he…

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    he term "pogrom" became commonly used in English after a large-scale wave of anti-Jewish riots swept through south-western Imperial Russia (present-day Ukraine and Poland) from 1881 to 1884 (in that period over 200 anti-Jewish events occurred in the Russian Empire, notably the Kiev, Warsaw and Odessa pogroms).[3] The trigger for these pogroms was the assassination of Tsar Alexander II, for which some blamed "the Jews".[4] The extent to which the Russian press was responsible for encouraging…

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    Gregorovich, a cold-blooded assassin was trained and hired by the international crime organization, Scorpia, to take out anybody and everybody who got in their way. The night before coming face to face with one of his greatest enemies, Yassen drew parallels between his life and that of the fourteen-year-old spy, Alex Rider, through a series of flashbacks that brought the assassin’s story to life ☺ (figurative language). Yassen recalled the events that led up to him becoming an assassin, from the…

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    Ferdinand was not assassinated World War I would not have happened but it did inadvertently escalate the tension and anger between the two countries and thus forced their allies into supporting and aiding them. This event turned what would have been a small skirmish that happened quite often between Serbia and Austro-Hungarians from a Trans-European conflict into a global battle that included America and Japan in the later part of the war. We can see the same parallel in Macbeth when Macbeth…

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    On November 27th, 1955, a small church in Topeka, Kansas, held its first service. Those in the congregation had no idea that pastor Fred Waldron Phelps would become the leader of a notorious hate group. Westboro Baptist Church was not the place of love it seemed to be. East Side Baptist Church in Topeka appointed Fred Phelps as their associate pastor in 1954. In 1955, they made him the head pastor of their new plant, Westboro Baptist. By 1956, Phelps had broken away from East Side Baptist…

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    assassination in Brazil.” Though besides that it seemed normal. I never knew assassins could be so…

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    Rouge St George Quotes

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    “You will be executed by firing guard tomorrow at dawn. May God have mercy on your soul.” Is a quote made by Fischer who was one of the judges at Garret’s hearing, sentencing him to death for high treason by aiding the enemy through helping them escape. Rouge is the second book of the Talon series in which Ember and Riley, who btoh are dragons, witht he assitance of Garret just escaped from St.George who we going to kill them since they were dragon hunters and Talon, who are a organization of…

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    Sandra Oh Killing Eve

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    killer impact with audiences on Sunday, following up a strong first installment with another action-packed episode. The psychological thriller chronicles two women, in adversarial roles, who become obsessed with each other. Jodie Comer plays female assassin Villanelle with gusto; while Sandra Oh’s (formerly of Grey’s Anatomy) depiction of MI5 operative Eve may garner the Canadian actress more Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards. At times, you wonder if Eve is trying to catch Villanelle…

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    The Ruins Of Morla

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    this section of the Deserted Land is the home of the Silent Assassins. The Silent Assassins are the group of assassins that Celaena was sent to find and train with (they are notoriously hard to find and most get lost and die in the Singing Sands) after she ruined Arobynn’s slave trade deal with the Pirate King of the Dead Islands. After he beat the living daylights out of her and her partner, Sam. To the left of the home of the Silent Assassins is the Oasis of Barg. This is the most reliable…

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    sword. A dagger’s next flaw is range. The blade has short blade meaning that an up close encounter with the enemy is required for an attack. “The dagger has the reputation for being a weapon of the unscrupulous and the assassin” (Will Kalif,”Daggers” ). As it says used for the assassin, which is fine for the short range, but in battle the enemy is not sleeping and defenceless. They would not be oblivious to one's presence. They will be up and on the attack, not giving someone any chance to…

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