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Blood Sports
Blood Sports Sources Old World.Sports which resulted in the death or injury of animals were part of European recreational life. Bulls, badgers, and bears were tethered so they could not escape and then set upon by dogs. Men on horseback chased foxes with the aid of... Read more |
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Garda
Garda (pl. Gardai)Síochána (Civic Guard), established in February 1922 to police all of independent Ireland outside Dublin city, which until 1925 remained the preserve of the autonomous Dublin Metropolitan Police. Intended initially as an armed body analogous to the Royal Irish... Read more |
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Royal Irish Constabulary
Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC). The Irish Constabulary—from 1867 Royal Irish Constabulary—was created in 1836 by the consolidation of the Peace Preservation Force (1814) and the Irish Constabulary (1822) (see police). The RIC was a centrally controlled, paramilitary force: heavily... Read more |
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Manchester martyrs
Manchester martyrs. On 18 September 1867 Thomas Kelly and Timothy Deasy, two leading Fenians, were being transported from the court‐house in Manchester to the county jail when the police van containing them was attacked. The prisoners escaped, but an unarmed police sergeant was shot... Read more |
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August Coup
August Coup attempted coup (Aug. 18-22, 1991) against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev . On the eve of the signing ceremony for a new union treaty for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, members of the Politburo and the heads of the Soviet military and security services detained Gorbachev... Read more |
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Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter fortification, built 1829-60, on a shoal at the entrance to the harbor of Charleston, S.C., and named for Gen. Thomas Sumter ; scene of the opening engagement of the Civil War. Upon passing the Ordinance of Secession (Dec., 1860), South Carolina demanded all federal property within the... Read more |
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Lusitania
Lusitania liner under British registration, sunk off the Irish coast by a German submarine on May 7, 1915. In the sinking, 1,198 persons lost their lives, 128 of whom were U.S. citizens. A warning to Americans against taking passage on British vessels, signed by the Imperial German Embassy,... Read more |
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My Lai incident
My Lai incident , in the Vietnam War, a massacre of Vietnamese civilians by U.S. soldiers. On Mar. 16, 1968, a unit of the U.S. army Americal division, led by Lt. William L. Calley, invaded the South Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai (more correctly, Son My), an alleged Viet Cong stronghold. In the course... Read more |
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wrestling
wrestling sport in which two unarmed opponents grapple with one another. The object is to secure a fall, i.e., cause the opponent to lose balance and fall to the floor, and ultimately to pin the supine opponent's shoulders to the floor, through the use of body grips, strength, and adroitness. One... Read more |
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tribes of Israel
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Forces kill two unarmed Palestinians along Gaza-Israel border, four others...
...forces shot and killed two unarmed Palestinians early Monday...three others in southern Israel after the group approached...the one apprehended in Israel were unarmed, the army said.It...group wanted to enter Israel to find work, the army... |
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Rights group: Israel killed unarmed Palestinians
...Israeli soldiers killed eleven unarmed Palestinian civilians who were...in shooting incidents during Israel's offensive in Gaza earlier...children. The group urged Israel to conduct investigations into...rights groups alleging that Israel violated the rules ... |
 "The Daily Star (Beirut, Lebanon)")
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Israel's shooting of unarmed protesters draws angry reactions.
...take action against Israel. BEIRUT: The killing of unarmed protesters by Israeli...Lebanon's borders with Israel as thousands of unarmed Palestinians rallied...criminal act which Israel has committed through targeting ... |
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ISRAEL KILLS FIVE UNARMED PALESTINIANS IN GAZA STRIP.(News)
...Strip shot and killed five unarmed Palestinians who were trying...Palestinian territory from Israel, a military spokesman said...Palestinian just after he entered Israel from Gaza, the military said...no explanation from either Israel or the Palestinian ... |
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Police in central Israel kill 2 unarmed Arabs
...attack Tuesday shot two unarmed Arab Israeli men attempting...an Arab town in central Israel, just across the boundary...security forces have shot unarmed Arab Israeli citizens during...about 1.2 million of Israel's 6.7 million citizens... |
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Condemnation mounts after Israel's shooting of unarmed demonstrators.
...criminal responsibility that Israel should bear," it said. Progressive...Israeli conflict, which will force Israel sooner or later to acknowledge...Franjieh, for his part, said Israel's killing of unarmed protesters was "symptomatic... |
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Israel's awful response to unarmed protesters
...the Israelis are faced with unarmed protesters, including children...high-explosive shells on unarmed demonstrators, they are bulldozing...there will be no jubilation in Israel to mirror that which inevitably...We who regularly support Israel are distressed ... |
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Foreign Ministry Source: Syria Condemns Israel's Flagrant Aggression on...
...strongly condemns Israel's flagrant aggression on the unarmed Syrian and Palestinian...terrorism exercised by Israel and the reality of...always tried to justify Israel's violations at...at hundreds of the unarmed Syrian and Palestinian... |
 "Saudi Press Agency (SPA)")
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Syria Condemns Israel's Flagrant Aggression on Unarmed Civilians in Golan.
...Republic strongly condemned Israel's flagrant aggression on the unarmed Syrian and Palestinian civilians...state terrorism exercised by Israel and the reality of the Israeli...source added. "We put what Israel is doing in the hands of the... |
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Unarmed demonstrators - the new threat to Israel
...Post 06-05-2011 Unarmed demonstrators - the...readily available, Israel is finding itself facing...fighting Goliath (Israel); to send hundreds of unarmed demonstrators to cross...there is no just way Israel can win. But it must... |
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