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Was there an assassination attempt against Xerxes in the battle of Thermopylae?
I watched Frank Miller's 300 last night with my girlfriend, and after the movie ended she mentioned the assassination attempt against Xerxes would have been a great plot element for the movie and that ...
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What were the six Mubarak assassination attempts?
Today there's a story about Mubarak in the hospital. He ruled Egypt since 1981 but was overthrown in 2011. Wikipedia says he survived six assassination attempts during that 30-year period, however it ...
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What was the first assassination/murder recorded on film?
Was it the murder of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand?
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Timing of Trotsky's Assassination
Stalin's arch rival Trotsky was exiled, but why did Stalin wait until later before sending assassins to finish him off?
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Roman aristocrat with slave assassins named after him?
I remember reading a few years back that there was a particular Roman strongman who had a very intense way of dealing with enemies.
He had dozens of either slaves or former slaves (freedmen), but I ...
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Was the Bosnian Crisis the trigger to WWI and not the assassination?
I've read that Austria-Hungary annexed Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1908, much to the dismay of the Serbs. Russia backed this action and was promised to have access to the Straits but were later denied. The ...
