Word: assassinations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...merely a family feud which last week resulted in the death of General Sidki, but his assassin, Abdulla Ibrahim, a relative of the murdered Defense Minister, unwittingly served the cause of the British. For General Sidki's rule imperiled Britain's dominance over young King Ghazi whose kingdom lies on Britain's air route to the East, and Sidki's taking off made the Orient safer for the King Emperor George...
Among the outstanding American Hamlets there are pictures and playbills of the productions of Junius Brutus Booth and his more famous son, Edwin. A playbill, dated 1864, announces the appearance of the eminent tragedian John Wilkes Booth, brother of Edwin and assassin of Abraham Lincoln, in the role of Hamlet at the Boston Museum...
...near you and with pain do I think of our everlasting separation; especially do your vacant, dismantled rooms sadden me. . . ." He was writing to her again ("Farewell with God, beloved angel, I embrace you with my whole heart. . . .") when she lay dying in Geneva, stabbed by a political assassin. The news, Franz Joseph thought, filled his cup. And he was right. In 1916, before he could see the ruin of his empire, Death brought him his long-overdue holiday...
...George Ziegler, landscape engineer, University of Illinois football star, Army flyer, crack golfer and gentle, well-mannered assassin...
...borrow 100,000 francs from a Florentine merchant to get to his coronation. The sands were rapidly running out. With the help of his maternal adviser and by judicious getaways and judicious murders, Henri managed to hold on to the crown for 14 years. A few months before an assassin's knife finished Henri III and with him Catherine's family, Catherine herself had faded quietly out of the picture...