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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 ...11 KB (1,695 words) - 00:11, 8 December 2022
- 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 ...12 KB (1,892 words) - 17:52, 9 November 2022
- ==Duel with Castlereagh== In 1809, Canning entered into a series of ... redress. He challenged Canning to a duel, and Canning accepted. It ...19 KB (2,752 words) - 08:08, 13 December 2023
- #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 ...14 KB (2,242 words) - 14:35, 18 July 2023
- === First Duel === and at the age of thirteen I fought a duel for the first time. My opponent ...36 KB (6,131 words) - 19:22, 9 November 2022
- [[Image:Hamilton-burr-duel.jpg|thumb|290px|Alexander Hamilton defending ... accepting Aaron Burr's challenge to a duel. In some Muslim countries ...15 KB (2,339 words) - 13:28, 2 February 2024
- 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 ...32 KB (4,920 words) - 14:22, 18 July 2023
- 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 ...37 KB (5,536 words) - 16:30, 7 September 2023
- 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 ...38 KB (5,858 words) - 07:13, 13 June 2023
- held. As the two armies fought an artillery duel, reconnaissance indicated ... and additional units arrived, an artillery duel took place for several hours ...15 KB (2,213 words) - 01:43, 26 September 2023
- *1949 The Quiet Duel - directed by Akira Kurosawa *1949 Jakoman and ... *1951 Conclusion of Kojiro Sasaki-Duel at Ganryu Island directed by ...28 KB (4,179 words) - 04:42, 1 May 2023
- 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 ...18 KB (2,968 words) - 06:54, 28 July 2023
- Malone declared that Bryan's "duel to the death" against ... in Ancient Egypt. The celebrated "duel in the shade" was very ...29 KB (4,801 words) - 17:27, 25 January 2023
- 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 ...26 KB (4,245 words) - 17:16, 26 March 2024
- 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 ...34 KB (5,434 words) - 08:55, 18 March 2024
- 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 ...20 KB (3,256 words) - 22:46, 9 March 2022
- 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 ...10 KB (1,478 words) - 21:44, 29 December 2021
- 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 ...11 KB (1,688 words) - 03:01, 23 December 2022
- wore an artificial nose after losing his in a duel that Tycho lost part of his nose in a duel with rapiers with Manderup ...28 KB (4,358 words) - 00:39, 3 May 2023
- 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 ...23 KB (3,536 words) - 15:21, 25 January 2023
- ===1815 Duel=== duelist D'Esterre, challenged him. The duel had filled Dublin Castle ...44 KB (6,781 words) - 18:16, 24 January 2024
- * Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel (1999) ==External links== All links retrieved August 3, 2022. * [http://www.online-literature ...11 KB (1,757 words) - 06:32, 8 April 2024
- old scar on his hand, due to a wound received in a duel. His body was taken to Tiflis and buried in the monastery of Saint David. His 16-year-old widow ...11 KB (1,699 words) - 13:49, 18 July 2023
- will not take her back. Crampas is challenged to a duel and killed by Innstetten, who afterwards has second thoughts about his action. His life, too, ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 17:55, 30 April 2023
- love affair with Amalie, nearly involving a duel with his colleague, Baron Alexander von Krüdener on January 19, 1825. After they both got married ...11 KB (1,742 words) - 07:26, 15 April 2024
- demise. Vautrin offers to arrange for a duel where Victorine’s brother ... a plantation. Eugène, realizing that the duel will take place that night ...30 KB (4,901 words) - 13:28, 2 February 2024
- Monitor arrived and initiated the famous duel of the ironclads. The battle ... * Milton, Keith. "Duel At Hampton Roads." Military Heritage ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 09:45, 22 September 2023
- In the middle of the diplomatic duel between Great Britain and the ... The "diplomatic duel" was a reference to the arrest of engineers ...38 KB (5,441 words) - 22:25, 3 May 2023
- * Allen, Charles. Duel in the Snow: The True Story of the Younghusband mission to Lhasa. London: John Murray, 2004. ISBN 978-0719554278 ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 04:49, 9 April 2024
- by Sir Philip Francis whom he had wounded in a duel in India. He was impeached in 1787 but the trial, which began in 1788, ended with his acquittal ...14 KB (2,155 words) - 22:56, 3 May 2023
- 13. Much of the fighting became an artillery duel, especially after ... Lightburn and McCausland, an artillery duel continued until 10:00 ...38 KB (5,738 words) - 19:45, 30 March 2024
- with blood, as he had challenged Thornhill to a duel, when he had heard about his wickedness. But then Mr. Burchell arrives and solves all problems ...14 KB (2,142 words) - 00:23, 18 November 2022
- opposite sides of the stage for a sort of musical duel. ; Symphony No. 5: Symphony No. 5 is one of only two of Nielsen's symphonies that ...14 KB (2,062 words) - 19:21, 26 November 2023
- who nearly kills one of the protagonists in a duel. ==Reputation== [[Image:William Makepeace Thackeray - Project Gutenberg eText 13103.jpg|left ...15 KB (2,180 words) - 11:11, 10 May 2023
- to war by the Fury Allecto. The Aeneid ends with a duel between Aeneas and Turnus. Aeneas defeats and kills Turnus, spurning his plea for mercy. ...15 KB (2,361 words) - 20:33, 3 May 2023
- outlaw, Kamal, who finds himself in a fierce duel with an English Colonel—the poem famously begins, "O East is East and West is West and never ...14 KB (2,319 words) - 17:43, 22 December 2022
- cattle to raising horses. The Baggara developed a duel society, where portions of families were left in the south to cultivate the agricultural fields ...15 KB (2,359 words) - 22:17, 25 January 2024
- scraping against the leaf in a ritualized acoustic duel (Yack et al. 2001). They detect the vibrations conducted by the plant and not air-borne sounds ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 00:08, 1 December 2023
- *The Quiet Duel (1949) *Stray Dog (1949) *Scandal (1950) *Rashomon (1950) *Hakuchi (The Idiot) (1951) *Ikiru, a.k.a. To Live (1952) ...14 KB (2,260 words) - 07:15, 16 June 2023
- conflict with the Aesir and would be killed in a duel with Heimdall. As Lindow argues, "Loki has a chronological component: He is the enemy of the ...15 KB (2,416 words) - 21:01, 3 November 2022
- Senator, Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, to a duel over a perceived insult on the Senate floor; Davis apologized, and the two began a close friendship. ...16 KB (2,409 words) - 06:37, 28 February 2023
- * Der Zweikampf (The Duel), published 1811 in Erzählungen (Volume 2) * Anekdoten, published 1810–1811 in the Berliner Abendblättern ...16 KB (2,396 words) - 15:02, 26 October 2022
- Bragg. Breckinridge wanted to challenge Bragg to a duel. Bragg struck back, court-martialing one division commander for disobeying orders, accusing ...18 KB (2,826 words) - 13:25, 11 February 2022
- formation, engaging in a long distance duel which did not prevent their ... exchanges, fought a long range gunnery duel with Neptune which damaged ...60 KB (9,430 words) - 18:53, 31 December 2023
- forces. Takeda Shingen is subsequently killed in a duel with the soldiers' leader, Lieutenant Iba (performed by Sonny Chiba). ...17 KB (2,596 words) - 03:54, 27 February 2023
- (Simmons and Scheepers 1996). After a necking duel, a giraffe can land a powerful blow with his head occasionally knocking a male opponent to the ground ...17 KB (2,568 words) - 07:47, 24 January 2023
- back in prison and in danger of hanging. In a duel, on September 22, in Hogsden Fields, he had killed an actor of Henslowe's company named Gabriel ...17 KB (2,769 words) - 09:06, 27 September 2023
- Hrafnkels saga (ˈr̥apncɛls ˌsaːɣa) is one of the Icelanders' sagas. It tells of struggles between chieftains and farmers in the east ...18 KB (2,992 words) - 01:26, 4 February 2023
- son, an officer in the army, was killed in a duel; and his second son, Charles, intended for the church, left Trinity College and became companion ...18 KB (2,949 words) - 02:26, 1 August 2022
- made, Sugriva challenged Vali to a duel. While the duel was progressing, Rama shot from his bow and killed Vali. Sugriva regained his kingdom ...37 KB (6,200 words) - 00:33, 8 December 2022
