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Revenge
674. Vengeance Absalom kills half-brother, Amnon, for raping sister, Tamar. [O. T.: II Samuel 13:28–29] Acamas Aeneas’s companion; kills Promachus to avenge brother’s murder. [Gk. Lit.: Iliad ] Acarnan and Amphoterus enabled by Zeus to grow to manhood in single day to... Read more |
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Laius
Laius in Greek mythology, a king of Thebes, husband of Jocasta and father of Oedipus, of whom it was prophesied that he would be killed by his own son. Laius accordingly ordered that the child should be exposed, but Oedipus was rescued and brought up in ignorance of his birth. When a man, he met... Read more |
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manslaughter
manslaughter homicide committed without justification or excuse but distinguished from murder by the absence of the element of malice aforethought. Modern criminal statutes usually divide it into degrees, the most common distinction being between voluntary and involuntary manslaughter.... Read more |
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Masai
Masai or Maasai , a largely nomadic pastoral people of E Africa, chiefly in Kenya and Tanzania. Cattle and sheep form the basis of the economy that they have maintained in resistance to cultural change. The Masai live off the milk, blood, and meat of their livestock. Masai society is... Read more |
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Stymphalian birds
Stymphalian birds , in Greek mythology, dangerous man-eating birds that infested the woods around Lake Stymphalus in Arcadia. As his fifth labor, Hercules frightened the birds into the air with a huge rattle and then killed them.... Read more |
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Minotaur
Minotaur In Greek mythology, beast with the head of a bull and the body of a man, the issue of Pasiphaë, wife of Minos, and a bull. He was confined by Minos in the labyrinth built by Daedalus. Theseus killed the Minotaur.... Read more |
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bullfighting
bullfighting national sport and spectacle of Spain. Called the corrida de toros in Spanish, the bullfight takes place in a large outdoor arena known as the plaza de toros. The object is for one of the bullfighters ( toreros )—the matador—to kill a wild bull, or toro, with a sword.... Read more |
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Former Klan Leader to Stand Trial for Killings of Civil Rights Workers
...and cruel -- the killings of three young civil...Mississippi. On Monday, a man will finally stand trial for those killings.Cynthia Bowers reports...family members of the boys who were murdered...watching Killen`s trial closely, hoping their... |
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2 seeking new trials in boys' killings -- Men in W. Memphis case claim...
...Two of the three men convicted in 1994 of killing three boys in West Memphis...grant them new trials. Jessie Misskelley...was denied a new trial. Misskelley was...did not take the stand. The hearing...could take the stand today, and it...oath. On the stand last week, ... |
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70-YEAR-OLD MUST STAND TRIAL IN THE KILLINGS OF THREE PEOPLE.(News)
A 70-year-old man who has difficulty...declared competent to stand trial. Ernest Lee Taber...in the death of the boy's mother, Cindy...Taber was competent to stand trial despite having...gentle, childlike man who always tried to... |
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Banuelos to stand trial in killing
WHITTIER - A man who said he witnessed the shooting death of a 17- year-old boy in Santa Fe Springs last year testified...after the hearing in Whittier Court to stand trial for Salinas' slaying. Under questioning... |
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City man to stand trial for '02 killing on Queen Street
...Lancaster city man was ordered Friday to stand trial on charges of...another city man over a drug...involved in killing Donald "Mike...down" by three men - Bair; Mark...knife, and the boy (Vinson) got...him the three men wrapped up Vinson...him by another man ... |
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Man to Stand Trial in 1998 Killing
...was ordered to stand trial on charges of...dismembering a teenage boy in 1998, then...now 26, of killing 16-year-old...confessed to the killing during an interview...at Los Angeles Men's Central Jail...bragged about killing Thorne and... |
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Judge: Alleged shooter must stand trial in Ethan Esparza killing
...evidence for the boy's alleged killer to stand trial. Pablo Adame...received from young men who often stood...of the young men who angered...for Adame to stand trial on one...in court as a man who would sometimes...about Ethan's killing. He is serving... |
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LANCASTER TEEN TO STAND TRIAL IN SHOTGUN KILLING.(News)
...Tuesday to stand trial on murder...slaying of a man who tried...the Sept. 7 killing of 42-year...boyfriend of the (boy's) mother...two younger boys away, officials...drove the two boys back to the...picked up the boy at the house...year-old boy were ... |
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Kennedy cousin ordered to stand trial in '75 killing
...investigation into whether the 39-year-old man should be tried as an adult or a juvenile...Scully, an Oklahoma National Guard spokesman. Boys Town may change name Boys Town, the home for wayward boys immortalized in a 1938 movie, may soon change... |
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2 to Stand Trial in Torture-Killing Case
...his girlfriend must stand trial on charges that they...the condition of the boy found locked in a...Candace Clark over for trial on charges that include...25, a bald, thick man with a goatee, and...s death and the boy's suffering shocked... |
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