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Jael
Jael , in the Bible, heroine of the time of Deborah. She murdered Sisera, her guest.
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Dido
Dido , in Roman mythology, queen of Carthage, also called Elissa. She was the daughter of a king of Tyre. After her brother Pygmalion murdered her husband, she fled to Libya, where she founded and ruled Carthage. According to one legend, Dido threw herself on a burning pyre to escape marriage to the...
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Athaliah
Athaliah . 1 The only queen to occupy the throne of Judah, daughter of Ahab of Israel, wife of Jehoram 2 of Judah, and mother of Ahaziah 2 of Judah, whom she succeeded. She had the males of the royal family murdered, but her stepdaughter Jehosheba hid away a baby son of Ahaziah. Some y...
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Dame Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Christie 1890-1976, English detective story writer, b. Torquay, Devon, as Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller. Christie's second husband was the archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan , and she gained much material for her later novels during his excavations in the Middle East. An extraordinarily popu...
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Michael
Michael in the Bible. 1 Father of Sethur the spy. 2 Chief of Issachar. 3 One of David's captains at Ziklag. 4 Jehoshaphat's murdered son.
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Rechab
Rechab , in the Bible. 1 Eponym of the Rechabites. 2 Murderer of Ish-bo-sheth. 3 Father of a worker on the wall.
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Giacomo Matteotti
Giacomo Matteotti , 1885-1924, Italian Socialist leader; the outstanding opponent of the Fascist regime during its early days. He was a member of parliament, and his murder by Fascist hirelings precipitated a parliamentary crisis that Mussolini overcame by disavowing the murder and by tightening pol...
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Brutus
Brutus , in ancient Rome, a surname of the Junian gens. Lucius Junius Brutus, fl. 510 BC, was the founder of the Roman republic. He feigned idiocy to escape death at the hands of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (see under Tarquin ). Roman historians tell how he led the Romans in expelling the Tarquins...
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murder
murder criminal homicide , usually distinguished from manslaughter by the element of malice aforethought. The most direct case of malicious intent occurs when the killer is known to have adopted the deliberate intent to commit the homicidal act at some time before it is actually committed. Ver...
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Inc. Murder
Inc. Murder name given to the band of professional killers who operated (1930-40) throughout the United States as the enforcement arm of the Syndicate, composed of the national heads of organized crime . Originally a gang of neighborhood thugs in Brooklyn, N.Y., they soon came to the attention of ...
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