Word: killinger
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He has made 29 films, including Oscar winners Midnight Express, Chariots of Fire and The Killing Fields. In 1986 English producer David Puttnam took over Columbia Pictures, vowing to make better films more cheaply and with less reliance on big-name stars. Following that formula, Puttnam put the Columbia name...
The massacres were partly a religious conflict between the Muslim Ottomans and the Christian Armenians. Many Armenians dispute Turkish claims that the killing was motivated by wartime conditions, but was not a genocide. The issue has not been resolved.
"That night the Ottoman Government rounded up all the Armenian leaders and intellectuals and began killing them," Alahydoian said.
After killing most of the leaders, Turkish soldiers evacuated rural Armenian villages, telling the men they had to serve in the army and then working them to death in forced labor camps, Samuelian said. The women and children were then marched into the Syrian desert, where most of them died...
British soccer has been plagued by a series of fatal mishaps. During a 1985 soccer game in Bradford, England, fire engulfed the grandstand, killing 56 fans. The same year, 39 people died at Heysel Stadium in Brussels after Liverpool hooligans attacked supporters of the rival Italian team, touching off a...