Fearing that she might become the target of assassins, the Tsar had moved Catherine and their children to the third floor of the Winter Palace by the winter of 1880.

Crane testifies in court that Victor Zsasz, one of Falcone's assassins, is legally insane and should be moved to Arkham for rehabilitation.

After Trujillo's assassination in 1961, Abbes moved quickly to hunt down the assassins and bring Ramfis Trujillo from Paris to the Dominican Republic to step into the place of his father.

The Germanic guard, stricken with grief and rage, responded with a rampaging attack on the assassins, conspirators, innocent senators and bystanders alike.

Nevertheless, on a visit to Vienna in 1931, Zog and his bodyguards fought a gun battle with would-be assassins Aziz Çami and Ndok Gjeloshi on the Opera House steps.

The action is condemned by the Yishuv at the time, but the bodies of the assassins are brought home from Egypt in 1975 to a state funeral and burial on Mount Herzl.

In the same manner that Lady Macbeth goads her husband on to murder, Macbeth provokes the assassins he hires to murder Banquo by questioning their manhood.

When they knew that Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius were assembling an army in order to march on Rome, Antony, Octavian and Lepidus allied in November 43 BC, forming the Second Triumvirate to stop Caesar's assassins.

On Komarr, Ivan is asked by an ImpSec friend to protect a pretty young woman targeted by a criminal gang, and stumbles into a conspiracy involving Jackson's Whole politics, hired assassins, criminal syndicates, and an old and potentially dangerous secret on Barrayar.

Reporting on the situation to the Shogun, Kayama witnesses Lord Abe's murder by cloaked assassins and himself is killed by one of their number-his former friend, Manjiro.

The Zulu monarch was killed by three assassins sometime in 1828, September is the most often cited date, when almost all available Zulu manpower had been sent on yet another mass sweep to the north.

The assassins planned to ambush Qasim at Al-Rashid Street on 7 October 1959: one man was to kill those sitting at the back of the car, the rest killing those in front.

** Governor William Goebel of Kentucky dies of wounds after being shot by several assassins on January 30.

* In South Central Chang ' an, the capital city of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, assassins murder Chancellor Wu Yuanheng at a city ward gate on a day just before dawn.

After the assassination, the Senate passed an amnesty on the assassins.

George Dorn wonders early on if he " was in some crazy surrealist movie, wandering from telepathic sheriffs to homosexual assassins, to nympho lady Masons, to psychotic pirates, according to a script written in advance by two acid-heads and a Martian humorist ".

In February 1937, following an assassination attempt on Italian East Africa's Viceroy Rodolfo Graziani, Graziani ordered Italian soldiers to raid the famous Ethiopian monastery Debre Libanos, where the would-be assassins had briefly taken refuge and had the monks and nuns in the monastery executed.

During the medieval period, Western scholarship on the Ismailis contributed to the popular view of the community as a radical sect of assassins, believed to be trained for the precise murder of their adversaries.

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.

The series follows the story of two young female assassins who embark together on a personal journey to seek answers about mysteries from their past.

The series follows the story of two young female assassins, the Corsican Mireille Bouquet and the Japanese amnesiac Yuumura Kirika, who embark together on a personal journey to seek answers about mysteries concerning their past.

Notwithstanding the assassins ' claim that they were working alone, the entire Bábí community was blamed, and a slaughter of several thousand Bábís followed, including on the 31 August 1852 some thirty Bábís, including Táhirih, were put to death in Tehran.

These were a cadre of assassins among Jewish rebels intent on driving the Romans out of Judea.

* Bedros Kapamacıyan, Ottoman-Armenian mayor of Van killed by Tashnak assassins on 10 December 1912.

The November 17, 2000 assassination of Brigadier Stephen Saunders was carried out by assassins on motorcycle who approached the vehicle while it was stopped at a traffic light and shot him dead before speeding off.

Her father married her to Tiberius Claudius Nero, her cousin of patrician status who was fighting with him on the side of Julius Caesar's assassins against Octavian.

Soviet assassins were already on the train.

He loses his house, his job and nearly his mind as he travels London Below in an attempt to make sense out of it all, find a way back, and help Door survive as she is hunted down by hired assassins.

While on their way to a meeting between the Four Winds families, Alex's group was attacked by a pair of over-cheerful assassins, but after a frantic battle, they arrived safely to find one of the Four Winds families had ordered the hit on Higashi.

Following the massacre at the Shrine of Asuryan and the revelation of Malekith's treachery, both emissaries of the Elven council and assassins loyal to Morathi scoured Ulthuan, each group hoping to find Caledor before the other did.

Deeply saddened by the apparent murder of one of his assassins ( and his lover ) Beatrix " Black Mamba " Kiddo, aka " The Bride " ( Uma Thurman ), Bill personally seeks out her killers only to find that she is still very much alive, trying to clear her past, and to start a new life with her unborn child.

The assassins are arrested, and Troi departs to the conference, saying that if she did not manage to find a new husband, at least she saved the conference.

An NSA agent, she is suddenly targeted by a group of moreau ( animal-human hybrids ) assassins, and tries to make contact with their Agency, only to find out she is thought dead and a traitor.

The CIA wants to find Michael to force him to give back the toxin bio-weapon, while the Russian assassins are men cheated by the double agent who work for Korzenowski, the ladies theatre professor.

Later, Yee allies himself with Chan Kam-Sing and Ko Chun's other rival and they send assassins to find and kill Chun.

Eventually, the assassins find Chun, Knife, and their friends and attempt to kill them, but Dragon arrives to protect them after tracking Chun down.

A similar complexity is found in the murder scenes, which combine genuine tension, for instance in the assassins ' attempts to find Arden on a foggy night, with almost bathetic humor, in their incompetent attempts on the man's life.

It wasn't clear if the assassins were attempting to kill the King, the Prince Royal or the prime minister, João Franco, who had dissolved Parliament and was ruling as a dictator.

The 28 June 1914 assassination of Austrian Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, by Gavrilo Princip, a member of Young Bosnia and one of seven assassins, served as a pretext for the Austrian declaration of war on Serbia on 28 July 1914, marking the beginning of World War I, despite Serbia's acceptance three days earlier of nearly all of Austria-Hungary's demands.

In 227 BC, Prince Dan and other guests wore white clothing and white hats at Ji river ( 易水 ) to send the pair of assassins off.

She sent assassins and had Crown Prince Yu assassinated.

* Alfredo Costa ( Casével ; 24 November 1883-Lisbon ; 1 February 1908 ), was a publicist, editor, journalist, store clerk and salesman, best remembered for being one of the two assassins responsible for the assassination of King Carlos I of Portugal and the Prince Royal, Luis Filipe, during the events of th 1908 Lisbon Regicide.

He was assassinated in 148 BC when his suggestions irritated Emperor Jing's powerful brother Liu Wu ( 劉武 ), the Prince of Liang, by assassins Prince Wu sent.