Search results for "Duel" - New World Encyclopedia
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- brawl, while Ben Jonson killed an actor in a duel. Several probably were soldiers. Playwrights were normally paid in increments during the writing ...22 KB (3,354 words) - 07:42, 5 February 2022
- * "The Duel" (aka "The Point of Honor": serialized in the UK in Pall Mall Magazine in early 1908 and in the US periodical ...22 KB (3,429 words) - 21:20, 6 May 2024
- of this episode, Sidney challenged de Vere to a duel, which Elizabeth forbade; he then wrote the queen a lengthy letter detailing the foolishness of ...20 KB (3,264 words) - 03:48, 24 November 2022
- century, there was a series of "duel races" at Madison Square Garden's (NY) indoor track, some of which featured two men racing ...27 KB (4,185 words) - 05:55, 21 August 2023
- When he was nine, his father was killed in a duel, and his mother left him with his prosperous architect uncles. They saw to it that he received an ...24 KB (3,977 words) - 08:23, 18 March 2024
- century, there was a series of races 'duel races' at Madison Square Garden's (New York) indoor track, some of which featured two ...24 KB (3,812 words) - 04:52, 1 May 2023
- him in 1722 to avoid imprisonment for fighting a duel. His childhood education consisted solely of reading Plutarch's Lives and Calvinist sermons ...25 KB (3,929 words) - 01:04, 9 February 2023
- in the analysis—that "war is nothing but a duel [or wrestling match, a better translation of the German Zweikampf] on a larger scale." His ...24 KB (3,682 words) - 15:21, 27 November 2023
- to the wedding. He travels to Pohjola and wins the duel with the Master of Northland. An army is conjured to get back at Lemminkäinen; on his mother’s ...26 KB (4,066 words) - 17:10, 14 May 2024
- Arnold also fought a duel in Honduras with a British sea captain, who called Arnold a "Dammed Yankee, destitute of good manners or those ...26 KB (3,968 words) - 09:08, 27 September 2023
- According to Charles Johnson, Blackbeard fought a running duel with the British thirty-gun man-of-war HMS Scarborough, which added to his notoriety ...25 KB (4,026 words) - 23:53, 12 February 2024
- #039;s friend Alexander Hamilton in an 1804 duel. Bernard, 152. ===French Directory=== After 9 Thermidor, he mobilized his friends (most notably ...51 KB (7,312 words) - 22:21, 4 December 2023
- Béla Kun (February 20, 1886 – August 29, 1938), born Béla Kohn, was a Hungarian Communist politician, who ruled Hungary, as the leader of ...26 KB (4,004 words) - 08:50, 27 September 2023
- Mistcalf, constructed to aid the troll Hrungnir in a duel with Thor, the god of thunder. [[Image:Leonardo-Robot3.jpg|thumb|Model of Leonardo da ...27 KB (4,060 words) - 21:30, 16 April 2023
- Although he was cleared of this charge, it led to a duel, for which he was prosecuted and sentenced to a fine and a fortnight's imprisonment. ...28 KB (4,425 words) - 15:12, 21 May 2024
- who in the days before his ultimately fatal duel with Aaron Burr provided his lawyer with a list detailing the author of each number. This list ...32 KB (4,993 words) - 01:56, 26 March 2024
- that her husband King Henri II would be killed in a duel; that he had examined the royal children at Blois; and that, when his corpse was uncovered during ...27 KB (4,102 words) - 10:08, 11 March 2023
- rose to become leader of the Liberal Party. In this duel, Disraeli was aided by his warm friendship with Queen Victoria, who came to detest Gladstone ...28 KB (4,114 words) - 23:17, 11 January 2023
- #039;s hot-blooded cousin, challenges Romeo to a duel for appearing in the Capulets' ball disguised. Though no one is aware of the marriage yet ...57 KB (9,012 words) - 21:40, 16 April 2023
- returned to Milan, where he eventually perished in a duel. King Francis became a close friend of Leonardo. Some 20 years after Leonardo's ...29 KB (4,455 words) - 08:02, 6 March 2023