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  • heroism of Bhima, who defeated and killed him in a duel. ... time to intervene, and killed Jatasura in a duel (Book III: Varna Parva, Section ...
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  • age of 26—like Pushkin, the casualty of a duel. In one of his best-known ... His duel with a son of the French ambassador led to his being returned ...
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  • ==Duel with Castlereagh== In 1809, Canning entered into a series of ... redress. He challenged Canning to a duel, and Canning accepted. It ...
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  • #039;s infidelities and lost his life in a duel over his wife's honor ... lover, Baron Georges d'Anthès, to a duel. Both men were injured, Pushkin ...
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  • === First Duel === and at the age of thirteen I fought a duel for the first time. My opponent ...
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  • [[Image:Hamilton-burr-duel.jpg|thumb|290px|Alexander Hamilton defending ... accepting Aaron Burr's challenge to a duel. In some Muslim countries ...
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  • abuse, ultimately leading to his death in a duel at the hands of his long-time ... ==Duel with Aaron Burr== [[Image:Hamilton-burr-duel.jpg|thumb|320px ...
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  • best known for his short novels like The Duel (1905) and The Pit. largely due to their timely topics. The Duel dealt with the underside of ...
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  • rival. Burr challenged Hamilton to a duel with pistols, and on July ... #039;s house. When Burr, after the Hamilton duel and treason trial, traveled ...
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  • held. As the two armies fought an artillery duel, reconnaissance indicated ... and additional units arrived, an artillery duel took place for several hours ...
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  • *1949 The Quiet Duel - directed by Akira Kurosawa *1949 Jakoman and ... *1951 Conclusion of Kojiro Sasaki-Duel at Ganryu Island directed by ...
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  • what Mme de Staël's admirers call her duel with Napoleon is not easy ... had entered the Swedish army and fell in a duel brought on by gambling. She ...
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  • Malone declared that Bryan's "duel to the death" against ... in Ancient Egypt. The celebrated "duel in the shade" was very ...
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  • an experience closer to that of an actual duel. At the point of its conception ... the goal being to train for a theoretical duel. The element of sport is absent ...
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  • Louisiana in 1802 when he was sixJeff Long, Duel of Eagles: The Mexican and ... 19, 1827, Bowie and Wright attended a duel on the Vidalia sandbar outside ...
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  • Agni to proceed, and meanwhile took up a duel with Indra. The ensuing battle ... hunter. The hunter challenged Arjuna to a duel, which he accepted, and an ...
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  • Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours (June 24, 1771 – October 31, 1834), known as Irénée du Pont, or E.I. du Pont, was a French-born American ...
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  • he has done but still unable to change, dies in a duel with Clarissa's cousin. Clarissa's relatives finally realize the misery they have caused ...
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  • wore an artificial nose after losing his in a duel that Tycho lost part of his nose in a duel with rapiers with Manderup ...
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  • Assembly floor, Clay challenged Marshall to a duel. The duel took place on January 9 in Shippingport, Indiana. They each had three turns, and Clay grazed ...
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