After a period of wandering and odd jobs, he published a volume of short stories, 50 contre 1 ( 1981 ), and then the novels Bleu comme l ' enfer ( 1982 ) and Zone érogène ( 1984 ) before gaining fame with his subsequent novels 37 ° 2 le matin ( 1985 ), Maudit Manège ( 1986 ), Echine ( 1988 ), Crocodiles ( short stories ) ( 1989 ), Lent dehors ( 1991 ), Sotos ( 1993 ), and Assassins ( 1994 ).

His story is told in the chapter entitled Biographies of the Assassins ( 刺客列傳 ) in Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian.

* Assassins Of Silence Hundred Watt Violence ( Ceres Records, 1995 )

In the wake of the Assassins 1991 break-up, Thackery has been leading a trio, Jimmy Thackery and the Drivers, whose early recordings were for the San Francisco, California based Blind Pig Records.

Rashid ad-Din Sinan the Grand Master of the Assassins at Masyaf successfully alarmed Saladin not to assault the realms of their sect.

The last Grand Master of the Assassins at Alamut Imam Rukn al-Din Khurshah ( 1255 – 1256 ) was executed by the Hulagu Khan after a devastating siege

Its musical productions have included Grand Hotel and the Stephen Sondheim works, Pacific Overtures, Merrily We Roll Along, Company, Into the Woods and the 1992 production of Assassins that opened Sam Mendes ' tenure as Artistic Director.

Numbering in the thousands, Divine Assassins are dead flesh, processed by the Divine Order's " Bio-Scholars " under the direct supervision of the Grand Bio-Vizier.

After subduing them, Hulagu directed his attention toward the Ismaili Assassins and their Grand Master, Imam ' Ala al-Din Muhammad, who had attempted the murder of both Möngke and Hulagu's friend and subordinate, Kitbuqa.

The Mongols later executed the Assassins ' Grand Master, Imam Rukn al-Dun Khurshah, who had briefly succeeded ' Ala al-Din Muhammad from 1255-1256.

The film's main character, Miyuki Minazuki, ranked number three in The Assassins Guild, known as the " Stray Cat ".

* The Elder Scrolls series ; in particular The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion features an extensive Thieves ' Guild and Assassins ' Guild that each require a number of quests to gain access and membership.

Sanjar undertook a campaign to eliminate the Assassins of Alamut, and successfully drove them from a number of their strongholds.

An earlier video game series based on the Assassins is the Exile series of action role-playing games, as well as assassins appearing in other video games like Dante's Inferno and the Prince of Persia series.

Byck is also one of the ( failed ) assassins portrayed in Stephen Sondheim's and John Weidman's 1991 musical Assassins.

The Ankh-Morpork Assassins ' Guild is a professional organisation and school for assassins in Terry Pratchett's long-running Discworld series of fantasy novels.

Black Mamba is one of the assassins tasked by the Assassins Guild to collect the bounty on Domino's head.

After narrowly escaping Tim's safehouse ( which the League of Assassins had booby-trapped before the three arrived ), they encounter members of another organization of assassins, the Council of Spiders.

When he runs out of money to buy video games and wrestling videos he accepts a job to kill Helter Skelter, also known as " the Drifter ," which earns him rank 11 by the United Assassins Association, a governing body of assassins.

* In the future of Batman Beyond, Terry McGinnis ( the future Batman ) confronts Curaré, the deadliest member of the Society of Assassins, a guild of Ninja assassins for hire in the future.

The word " assassin " was derived from Hasan-i Sabbah and his Assassins | Assassin's Order of Nizari Ismailism.

The word assassin is often believed to derive from the word Hashshashin ( Persian: حش ّ اشين, ħashshāshīyīn, also Hashishin, Hashashiyyin, or Assassins ), and shares its etymological roots with hashish ( or ; from Arabic: ).

Founded by the Hassan-i Sabbah, the Assassins were active in the fortress of Alamut in Iran from the 8th to the 14th centuries, and also controlled the castle of Masyaf in Syria.

Gumushtigin requested from Rashid ad-Din Sinan, grand-master of the Assassins of Syria, who were already at odds with Saladin since he replaced the Fatimids of Egypt, to assassinate Saladin in his camp.

Saladin had by now agreed truces with his Zengid rivals and the Kingdom of Jerusalem ( latter occurred in the summer of 1175 ), but faced a threat from the Hashshashin sect or " Assassins " led by Rashid ad-Din Sinan.

As tensions in the Middle East grew during the Crusades, the Assassins were also known for taking contracts from outside sources on either side of the war, whether it was from the invading Crusaders or the Saracen forces, so long as the assassination fit in to the Grandmaster's plan.

In 1603 the first Western publication on the topic of the Assassins was authored by a court official for King Henry IV and was mainly based on the narratives of Marco Polo from his visits to the Near East.

# 12th century: The Assassins extend their activities into Syria, where they could get much support from the local Shi ' i minority as the Seljuq sultanate had captured this territory.

The most important of these castles was the Masyaf, from which the " The Old Man of Mountain ", Rashideddin Sinan ruled practically independent from the main leaders of the Assassins.

But as the Assassins by now were numerous and often worked as peasants, they paid high taxes to local Christian landlords, that Christian peasants were exempted from.

The series imagines the Assassins as being active in various eras and locations: from 12th-century Syria during the Third Crusade ( this incarnation depicted in the first game and the one recorded by the Polos in-universe ), 15th-century Renaissance Italy and Turkey, 18th century North America during the American Revolution, and up to the 21st century.

Posing as a Japanese murderer, Moto escapes from Devil ’ s Island with a member of the League of Assassins in order to find out not only who is their next victim but who is the mysterious man at the top.

* Louis is also mentioned in the song " Save me Joe Louis " by Curtis Eller's American Circus from the album Wirewalkers and Assassins.

In a bid for the Sardaukar's support in the War of Assassins during the period of Emperor: Battle for Dune, the Ordos create a ghola of the now-deceased Frederick Corrino IV using genetic samples smuggled directly from the Imperial Capital, Kaitain.

They also recorded two live albums from these tours, Double Live Assassins and The Sting respectively.

In 1603 the first Western publication on the topic of the Assassins was authored by a court official for King Henry IV and was mainly based on the narratives of Marco Polo ( 1254 – 1324 ) from his visits to the Near East.

* The fiction novel Assassins of Alamut by James Boschert takes its name from the castle, and the fortress is an important location within the book.

Having received news that the Assassins Guild of New Orleans was approached to kill Charles Xavier, he goes to track Xavier down and save him from possible danger.

They determine who the Assassins were supposed to kill next from a list Gambit pulls from one of the goons, which includes Juggernaut, Sebastian Shaw, and Carter Ryking's ( also known as Hazard ).

Apart from navigating heighliners ferrying the troops of the three Houses to Arrakis, Navigators have also been utilized by the Guild in the War of Assassins in the Emperor: Battle for Dune computer game as pilots for their NIAB Tanks ( a hover tank that projects a single electrical bolt ) and NIAP Flyers ( an aerial version of the NIAB Tank, although without any weapons of its own ).

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