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Jeopary Questions page 708 - THE SMALLEST IN AREA ...  WORDS FROM 2 LETTERS: These 2 letters can often be seen growing on the sides of college buildings ... VICTIMS: In 1978 defector Georgi Markov was fatally stabbed in London with a poison-tipped one of these  I SHOT THE SHARIF:...
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Russia: British Police Investigating Litvinenko Poisoning Case  Nov 20, 2006 ... British police are investigating the near-fatal poisoning of a former Russian ... about the people who murdered Politkovskaya," Litvinenko said. "It was November 1. ... Litvinenko, who defected to Britain six years ago, had angered the ... Georgi Markov, who was killed in London with a poison-tipped umbrella.
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Leading Russian critic of Putin's regime is poisoned in London  Nov 19, 2006 ... One gram is enough to kill even the fittest of men and Litvinenko, 43, has all the ... Doctors say these latter symptoms could suggest the presence of a second ... Russian defector poisoned in London 'on orders of Moscow'. ... Georgi Markov, above, the Bulgarian dissident who was stabbed in the leg on...
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German man stabbed with poison umbrella dies a year after attack ...  May 12, 2012 ... An assassin armed with a poisoned-tipped umbrella is being hunted by police ... The case mirrors the murder of journalist Georgi Markov, who defected to Britain from his ... at a bus stop on Waterloo Bridge in London in September 1978. ... before he was fatally poisoned with radioactive polonium in 2006.
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Georgi Markov - Wikipedia  Georgi Ivanov Markov was a Bulgarian dissident writer. Markov originally worked as a novelist ... Georgi Markov was born on 1 March 1929, in Knyazhevo, a Sofia neighbourhood. ... In 1978, Markov was murdered in London by an operative connected to the KGB ... The cause of death was poisoning from a ricin-filled pellet.
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Secret files tell of final terrors for Romanovs | The Independent  Jul 22, 1999 ... IT WAS a lady-in-waiting to the Russian royal family, Grand ... The assassination of Tsar Nicholas II and his family horrified the then British King, George V, and the ... death of the last Tsar and his family at the hands of the Bolsheviks. ... "Ex-Emperor of Russia, Nicholas: Reports that he was shot on July 16...
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Georges Watin, 71, whose attempt to assassinate French ...  Feb 21, 1994 ... ... Day of the Jackal," died Saturday of a heart attack at his home in. ... On Aug. 22, 1962, bullets shattered the windows of de Gaulle's limousine as it was driven through a Paris suburb, but the president ... Mr. Watin told the newspaper ABC Color last month that he did not regret his attempt to kill de Gaulle.
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Terror at the Olympics: Munich, 1972 | TIME  Aug 5, 2013 ... Five decades after the 1972 Munich Massacre, LIFE.com presents photos that ... They were spoken by ABC's Jim Mckaythe man behind the ... McKay, a sportscaster who assumed the duties of a news anchor as one ... two were killed in their rooms yesterday morning, nine were killed at the airport tonight.
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The Trotsky Assassination - History (history.com)  Marked for death by Joseph Stalin, the 60-year-old intellectual architect of the ... British passport, under the name Leon Trotsky, and met fellow revolutionary Vladimir Lenin. ... Now, nearly three months later as the hunted man scattered food for his pet ... The assassin's real name was Ramon Mercader, a Spanish communist...
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Death of Mark Duggan - Wikipedia  Mark Duggan, a 29-year-old man from Tottenham, was shot and killed by police in Tottenham, North London, England, on 4 August 2011. The Metropolitan Police stated that officers were attempting to arrest Duggan ... A public inquest on the Duggan killing began on 16 September 2013, and ended on 8 January 2014 with...
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Grigori Rasputin - New World Encyclopedia  In 1903, Rasputin arrived in Saint Petersburg, where he gradually gained a reputation as ... Rasputin survived one assassination attempt and almost survived a second, ... They clubbed him into submission and, after wrapping his body in a sheet, ... times and badly beaten, was recovered from the Neva River and autopsied.
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September 26th, 1983: The day the world almost died | Daily Mail ...  Dec 29, 2007 ... Stanislav Petrov, a lieutenant-colonel in the military intelligence section of the Soviet Union's secret service, reluctantly eased himself into the...
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Jacob Schiff Ordered Czar and Family Murdered - henrymakow.com  Jul 9, 2011 ... The order to murder the Tsar and his family actually came from New York. Lenin had hardly any say in the matter. The Bolsheviks had been...
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Russian Spies Revealed Assassination Plot against Former PM ...  Mar 15, 2012 ... And it looks as if there was an assassination plan against former conservative prime minister Costas Karamanlis and a whole plot to destabilize...
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1948: Stalin extends warm welcome to Golda Meir - This Day in ...  Oct 4, 2012 ... As the new Jewish state's ambassador to the USSR, Golda Meir was ... in honor of the Soviet Revolution, where she was greeted by Polina Molotov, wife ... Later came a variety of purges, including the so-called Doctors' Plot,...
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Milosevic - A Force More Powerful  In 1986 he was elected Serbian regional Communist Party President and was re-elected ... to the Hague on June 29, 2001 to stand trial on charges of war crimes at the ... when he was found dead of a heart attack in his cell on March 11, 2006.
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Did Rabin's assassination truly alter the course of Israeli history ...  Oct 31, 2015 ... Yigal Amir, serving a life sentence for the murder of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. ... for extremism as a law student at Bar-Ilan University, which attracted the best and ... At least once, Ephron notes, Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu ... In January 1995, Amir hoped to murder Rabin during a planned...
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ASSASSINATION IN INDIA - A Blast, and Then the Wailing Started ...  Published: May 22, 1991 ... SRIPERUMBUDUR, India, May 21 On the way to the rally 25 miles ... a local party official as the former Prime Minister began one of his final campaign trips. ... to shake hands and ask for votes as if he were a town council candidate. ... "At the end, I am swollen and bleeding or have a cut arm.
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The Assassination of Rasputin, 29 December 1916 - First World War ...  Stanislaus de Lazovert on the Assassination of Rasputin, 29 December 1916. The shot that ended the career of the blackest devil in Russian history was fired by my ... On the night of the killing, after all details had been arranged, I drove to the ... We then carried his riddled body in a sheet to the River Neva, broke the ice and...
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How a real Big Brother kept an eye on George Orwell, the bohemian ...  Jul 17, 2005 ... ... Big Brother kept an eye on George Orwell, the bohemian communist ... have told his intimate friends that he could not bring himself to arrest...
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The Assassination of Ambassador Spike Dubs - Kabul, 1979 ...  Adolph Spike Dubs was a career diplomat who served in Germany, Liberia, and the Soviet Union ... On February 14, 1979, Dubs was kidnapped by armed militants posing as police ... A successor to Dubs was not named and the Soviet Union invaded ... The U.S. embassy was finally closed in 1989 as security deteriorated.