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Prong
Prong Rock band For the Record … Selected discography Sources In the late 1980s, New York’s Prong hit the scene with a vengeance, blending their own combination of thrash, industrial, and post-punk doom. Their sound made it difficult for critics... Read more |
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vendetta
vendetta [Ital.,=vengeance], feud between members of two kinship groups to avenge a wrong done to a relative. Although the term originated in Corsica, the custom has also been practiced in other parts of Italy, in other European countries, and among the Arabs. It generally reflects a society where... Read more |
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Alastor
Alastor , in Greek mythology, spirit of vengeance. It is an epithet applied to Zeus or any other god in his aspect as avenger and is also sometimes applied to an evildoer who is subject to vengeance.... Read more |
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Arioch
Arioch Demon of vengeance, according to some demonologists. Arioch differs from Alastor and occupies himself only with vengeance in particular cases where he is employed for that purpose.... Read more |
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wergeld
wergeld was the fixed amount, or blood-price, payable by a killer and his kin to his victim's kinsmen. A man's kin was obliged to seek vengeance for his untimely death, but payment of wergeld was an alternative to blood-feud, and a means of keeping order in a violent society. The amount of wergeld... Read more |
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Abishai
Abishai A loyal soldier in David's band who had to be restrained from killing Saul when he was resting from the pursuit of his young rival (1 Sam. 26: 9). Abishai was later implicated with Joab (2 Sam. 3: 30) in the tit-for-tat murder of Abner, who had killed their brother Asahel (2 Sam. 2: 23);... Read more |
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Morris Carnovsky
Morris Carnovsky , 1897-1992, American actor, b. St. Louis. After his New York City debut in The God of Vengeance (1922), he joined the Theatre Guild and later performed with The Group Theatre, of which he was a founding member. He worked as an actor and director for the Actors Laboratory Theatre... Read more |
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Blood Feud
BLOOD FEUD Avenging the wrongful death of a person's kin by killing the murderer or by receiving compensation from the murderer's possessions. During the Middle Ages all European nations had similar customs concerning the murder of their inhabitants. The closest next of kin to a person who had... Read more |
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Pandora
Pandora păndôr´e , in Greek mythology, first woman on earth. Zeus ordered Hephaestus to create her as vengeance upon man and his benefactor, Prometheus. The gods endowed her with every charm, together with curiosity and deceit. Zeus sent her as a wife to Epimetheus, Prometheus'... Read more |
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Joaquin Murrieta
Murrieta, Joaquin (c.1832–53),California bandit leader, probably emigrated from Mexico during the gold rush, and because of some real or imagined grievance swore vengeance against the Americans, whom for two years he and his gang indiscriminately murdered, robbed, and terrorized. He, or an... Read more |
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Power plays with too many tricks
...widowed queen spits back at the mother of...alliances broken by vengeance or advantage, is...with the revolt of Jack Cade, whose followers...though, with a Cade who leaps like a...carnival. The Cade episode was genuinely... |
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Umaga feels free to do all his talking on the field
...was the man on a mission of vengeance. How he channelled it though...You could have a Rolls Royce back line but it doesn't matter...like Richie McCaw, Chris Jack and Aaron Mauger, you're...role models. He has one boy, Cade, and two girls, Gabrielle... |