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The guards had been ordered in advance to turn a blind eye to such behaviour, and soon the potatoes had all been " stolen " and Kapodistrias ' plan to introduce them to Greece had succeeded.
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In prison he had been able to sketch nothing but figures from life, his guards, his companions in misery.
He had reached the three passive guards ; ;
A group had broken down the door of the Boston courthouse but guards beat them back.
Alexander was the heir apparent to his cousin, the eighteen-year-old Emperor who had been murdered along with his mother by his own guards, who, as a mark of contempt, had their remains cast into the Tiber river.
Nehemiah appoints officials and sets guards on the wall and gates ; he plans to register the Jews, and finds the Census of those who had returned earlier.
During a UN mission in the northern part of the country in November 2006, the mission had a meeting with a prefect who said that he could not maintain law and order over the military and the presidential guards.
In February, the people rose again: Alexius IV was imprisoned and executed, and Murzuphlus took the purple as Alexius V. He made some attempt to repair the walls and organise the citizenry, but there had been no opportunity to bring in troops from the provinces and the guards were demoralised by the revolution.
At midday a small team of Volunteers and Fianna members attacked the Magazine Fort in the Phoenix Park and disarmed the guards, with the intent to seize weapons and blow up the building as a signal that the rising had begun.
Uniforms were issued for prisoners and guards alike ; the guards ' uniforms had a special death's head insignia on their collars.
Jacobs ' most significant contribution would be his redrawing of the costumes and backgrounds in the revised edition of King Ottokar's Sceptre which gave it a Balkan feel-in the original, the castle guards had been dressed as British Beefeaters.
Lindh said that the prison uprising was sparked by some of the prisoner guards smuggling grenades into the basement, " This is against what we had agreed upon with the Northern Alliance, and this is against Islam.
The city employed light guards who had to follow a specific schedule to ensure the punctual lighting of the 700 lanterns.
The Militia Act of 1903 divided what had been the militia into what it termed the " organized " militia, created from portions of the former state guards to become state National Guard units, and the " unorganized " militia consisting of all males from ages 17 to 45, with the exception of certain officials and others, which is codified in.
Otho had owed his own success to the resentment felt by the Praetorian guards and the rest of the army at Galba's refusal to pay the promised gold to the ones who supported his accession to the throne.
Visually it differed to the 931 in that it had polyurethane plastic front and rear flared guards, a polyurethane plastic front spoiler, a top mounted air scoop for the intercooler, a much larger rubber rear spoiler and a flush mounted front windscreen.
As police and army troops prepared to launch a rescue operation, Lizcano escaped alongside one of his guerrilla guards who had decided to desert.
Most of the alternate guards had to be cut due to technical limitations at the time.
He had his guards supplied with link lights and had chalk and cinders strewed around his tent outside Masyaf — which he was besieging — to detect any footsteps by the Assassins.
According to the later thirteenth century Old French Continuation of William of Tyre, Raynald captured Saladin's sister in a raid on a caravan, although this claim is not attested in contemporary sources, Muslim or Frankish, instead stating that Raynald had attacked a preceding caravan, and Saladin set guards to ensure the safety of his sister and her son, who came to no harm.
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Pokey has been referenced twice in the Hitman series of video games: in Hitman: Contracts as an obscure, esoteric easter egg, and more directly in Hitman: Blood Money, where an overheard conversation between guards has one inviting the other to look at the comics on a computer.
The plan was that after Theseus, Aegeus, and the palace guards had been forced out the front, the other half would surprise them from behind.
The boy had actually been sent to a hotel across the street because the guards did not want to kill him along with the rest of the Romanov party.
However, the present Ottoman fortress was built following the publication of a firman in 1573 A. D. ( 981 H .):" You have sent a letter and have reported that four walls of the fortress Ras al-Ayn have been built, I have commanded that when firman arrives you shall built the above mentioned rooms and mosque with its minaret and have the guards remove the earth outside and clean and tidy place.
Their selection of Pittsburgh Panthers forward DeJuan Blair with the # 37 pick was described as a " steal " by analysts ; the Spurs later drafted two guards they had been targeting with the No. 37 pick, taking Miami Hurricanes shooting guard Jack McClinton and point / shooting guard Nando de Colo from France with the No. 51 and No. 53 picks, respectively.
The locks to the chamber doors had been tampered with and the chamberlain had not posted guards ; both victims were then put to the sword.
Some guards who had not participated in the murders and had been sympathetic to the grand duchesses were reportedly left in the basement with the bodies.
But by then the panels had been removed from the frame and hidden, with the guards, on the narrow spiral staircase up the tower, with a locked door at ground level.
Marion thus missed the battle, which proved to be a decisive British victory, but was able to intercept and recapture 150 Maryland prisoners, plus about 20 of their British guards, who had been en route from the battle to Charleston.
Private sector personnel in the UK who operate or monitor CCTV devices or systems are now considered security guards and have been made subject to state licensing.
The building still bears some visible damage from the attacks, and metal guards have been installed on the ground floor windows and doors, intended to ward against any further violence.
A jury later found the guards innocent because had been acting in self defense.
Leuchter traveled to Auschwitz and Birkenau to examine the structures identified by guards, prisoners, and investigators, as gas chambers, and concluded that they could not have been used for mass murder.
Assuming the subject has been under guard, the screener often can get valuable information about the subject's behavior from the guards.
Boris was the one who presented most danger to him, because he had been in charge of Vladimir's druzhina ( personal guards ) and army and enjoyed the support of the citizens.
If the character Ulpian is identical with the famous jurist, the Deipnosophistae may have been written after his death in 228 ; but the jurist was murdered by the Praetorian guards, whereas Ulpian in Athenaeus dies a natural death.
On 15 November 1805 Marshals Murat and Lannes, commanding the French advance guard, had captured a bridge over the Danube at Vienna by falsely claiming that an armistice had been signed, and then rushing the bridge while the guards were distracted.
As his name suggests, he is a black knight who guards a " bridge " ( in reality a short plank of wood ) over a small stream, ( which could have been easily stepped over by King Arthur ) for unknown reasons.
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Once at some games at which he was presiding, he ordered his guards to throw an entire section of the crowd into the arena during intermission to be eaten by animals because there were no criminals to be prosecuted and he was bored.
Therefore Kapodistrias, knowing of the contemporary Greek attitudes, ordered that the whole shipment of potatoes be unloaded in public display on the docks of Nafplion, and placed severe-looking guards guarding it.
Tension over popular dissatisfaction with Ratsiraka's rule was brought to a head when presidential guards were ordered to open fire on unarmed pro-democracy protesters in 1989.
Matters came to a head when the French commander in the Republic, Auguste de Marmont, ordered in November, 1804, that French coast guards and customs officials were to take over the responsibility for the surveillance of cargoes in Dutch ports, with powers of confiscation without reference to Dutch authorities.
After a commotion staged by the prisoners, the guards are ordered to assemble them in the fortress courtyard.
He was said to have ordered the prison guards to club the children to death, and Bokassa indeed participated, smashing the skulls of at least five children with his ebony walking stick.
The fear of a possible liberation of the locked up king worried him to the point that in 1571 he ordered the guards to, in any suspicion of liberation attempt, murder the captured king.
Semple ordered Sheriff Samuel T. Packwood to investigate the situation at Roslyn and to try to find a way in which the government could lawfully disarm the guards.
Armed guards were posted at the hospitals where victims were taken and doctors were ordered not to release any of the theater patients in case militants had concealed themselves among the hostages.
SS guards ordered prisoners to bury some of the dead.
the detailed instructions to Leamas about climbing over the Wall ) is clear, but why he ordered the border guards to kill her is unclear.
Michael managed to reach the Winter Palace, where he ordered the guards there to withdraw to the Admiralty, because it afforded greater safety and a better tactical position and because it was a less politically charged location.
In late May Russia announced that it was closing the Russian-Chechnya border in an attempt to combat attacks and criminal activity ; border guards were ordered to shoot suspects on sight.
He then ordered his guards to show the rebels Selim's body, and they promptly tossed it into the inner courtyard of the palace.
On 21 February 1660 George Monck ordered the guards of the house to readmit the secluded members.
The commander of the Royal Guards battalion on duty, Col. Taha Bamirni, ordered the palace guards to cease fire.
In response, Fu Jiān ordered a general mobilization against Jin: 6 of every 10 able-bodied men were conscripted, and 30, 000 elite guards ( 羽林郎 ) were gathered.
Just after midnight, July 6, Major General Patterson ordered a company of city guards to clear the streets.
Hearing the commotion, Trotsky's guards burst in and nearly killed Mercader, but Trotsky, heavily wounded but still conscious, ordered them to spare his attacker's life shouting " Do not kill him!
He first tried to head back to Luoyang, but when he was about to cross the Yellow River, he was stopped by guards instructed to stop any nobles or high level officials from crossing ( as Sima Ying had ordered such, fearing that nobles would desert him or plot against him ).
One rumour that persists to this day is that Emperor Haile Selassie ordered his guards to kill him.
At Auschwitz-Birkenau, one Aufseherin was found guilty of aiding inmates illegally, and the chief overseer ordered her punished ; her fellow guards were forced to give her twenty-five lashes.
His successor and former deputy Yezhov ordered the guards to strip Yagoda naked and beat him for added humiliation just before his execution.
As a final insult for his former mentor, Yezhov ordered Yagoda to be stripped naked and severely beaten by the guards at the Lubyanka before being dragged into the execution chamber and shot.
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