The attempt had failed because, when endeavoring to cut his wrists, this murderer of seven women had fainted at the sight of blood.

This first attempt at an amendment failed to pass, falling short of the required two-thirds majority on June 15, 1864, in the House of Representatives.

When the Confederate attempt to defend Petersburg failed, the Confederate army retreated but was pursued and defeated, which resulted in Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.

* In 1990 12 soldiers were sent to Trinidad after a failed coup attempt by radical Black Muslims against the constitutionally elected government headed by Prime Minister A. N. R.

After an attempt to arrest the queen herself failed, Joan called Sforza who defeated the Aragonese milices near Castel Capuano in Naples.

Andronikos III's attempt to make up for this setback by annexing Bulgarian Thrace failed in 1332, when he was defeated by the new Bulgarian Emperor Ivan Alexander at Rousokastron.

After a failed attempt to invade Athens, Atlantis sank into the ocean " in a single day and night of misfortune ".

* 1955 – The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.

This attempt failed, but gained him the support of Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Hayyay, lord of Carmona, and a cousin of the Sevillan lord, Ahmad ibn Maslama.

After a failed health care reform attempt, Republicans won control of Congress in 1994, for the first time in forty years.

As such he was the principal field commander for the failed airborne attempt to bridge the Rhine at Arnhem and the Allied Rhine crossing.

In the then Victorian Colony ( now State of Victoria in Australia ), the ( Royal ) Victorian Bowling Association was formed in 1880 and The Scottish Bowling Association was established in 1892, although there had been a failed attempt in 1848 by 200 Scottish clubs.

His attempt to devise a constitution in 1818 that would legitimize his government failed, as did his effort to generate stable funding for the new administration.

Many had perished from scurvy, while others ( including Captain Arnaud ) died during a failed attempt to sail after a passing ship to fetch help.

According to accounts in the Zuo Zhuan and Shiji, Confucius departed his homeland in 497 BC after his support to the failed attempt of dismantling the fortified city walls of the powerful Ji, Meng, and Shu families.

A subsequent attempt by the government to re-establish control over the rebellious islands by force failed, and presently the African Union is brokering negotiations to effect a reconciliation.

He was once more defeated at Kish, and again fled to Elam where he died in exile after one final failed attempt to raise a revolt against Assyria in his homeland, Bit-Yâkin in 700 BC.

These include the largest, the Swiss People's Party ( SVP ), the Christian Democratic People's Party ( CVP ), represented in the Federal Council or cabinet by Doris Leuthard ( in 2011 ), and the Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland ( BDP ), which is a spliter of the SVP created after a failed attempt to expel Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf from the SVP.

In 1933, Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak was fatally wounded in Miami, Florida during a failed assassination attempt on President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Co-emperor alongside his brothers, his short reign saw the beginnings of conflict emerge between the sons of Constantine the Great, and his attempt to exert his perceived rights of primogeniture ended up causing his death in a failed invasion of Italy in 340.

As punishment for a failed assassination attempt against him, Harkonnen forces Feyd to single-handedly slaughter all the female slaves who serve as Feyd's lovers.

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* 1989 – 1989 Philippine coup attempt: The right-wing military rebel Reform the Armed Forces Movement attempts to oust Philippine President Corazon Aquino in a failed bloody coup d ' état.

In the early first decade of the 21st century, campus-wide debate focused on a Board of Trustees recommendation that Greek organizations become " substantially coeducational "; this attempt to the change the Greek system eventually failed.

The kangaroos are descended from a breeding population which escaped during a botched burglary attempt at an animal park in the 1970s.

Successful retrieval in the first attempt – something the animal can achieve after some training on the task – requires holding the location of the food in memory over the delay period.

Typically, the predators attempt to cut out a young or ill animal and attack without having to worry about the herd.

Scientists have been studying different sex determination systems in fruit flies and animal models to attempt an understanding of how the genetics of sexual differentiation can influence biological processes like reproduction, ageing and disease.

While he gazed into a mirror they tried to seize him and he fled, changing into various animal forms in his attempt to escape.

A decision was made that all of the shadowy layer of animal glue and " lamp black ", all of the wax, and all of the overpainted areas were contamination of one sort or another: smoke deposits, earlier restoration attempts, and painted definition by later restorers in an attempt to enliven the appearance of the work.

Consequently, people would attempt to scare away the animal by throwing weapons, gesturing and making as much noise as possible.

He is in stable condition at an area hospital, and will likely be arrested for trespassing ( it was initially thought before an interview that it was a possible suicide attempt ; Villalobos, who had petted the 400-pound animal, wanted to be " one with the tiger ").

* Dr. Reginald Bushroot ( voiced by Tino Insana )-A scientist who tried to fuse animal DNA with that of plants in an attempt to give people the ability to feed themselves through photosynthesis.

One of the newest amendments of the directive concerning cosmetic industry comes as a result of the attempt to ban animal testing.

The FDA joined with thirteen other Federal agencies in forming the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods ( ICCVAM ) in 1997 which is an attempt to ban animal testing and find other methods to test the cosmetic products.

They generate their own electricity, using methane from animal waste, and attempt to make their own clothes.

Animal asked a number of questions to the user in an attempt to guess the type of animal that the user was thinking of, while the related program PERVADE would create a copy of itself and ANIMAL in every directory to which the current user had access.

These mini-missions were, of course, far too short to attempt any meaningful agriculture or animal husbandry.

They feed on a wide range of items and will attempt to feed on anything appearing edible, alive or dead, plant or animal.

For example, in situations where groups of komodo dragons are eating together, the largest individuals eat first and will attack smaller komodos that attempt to feed ; if the smaller animal is killed, it is cannibalized.

A more restrictive view that some shelters attempt to integrate as part of the adoption agreement puts conditions on when and why the adopter could arrange to move the animal to a new family.

The woman reached out to attempt to pet the animal, and Horn jumped between the woman and the tiger.

( While another version says he merely attacked the horse in an attempt to knock Alvarado down, having no prior illusion that both man and animal to be one and the same.

Breeding back is a form of artificial selection by the deliberate selective breeding of domestic animals in an attempt to achieve an animal breed with a phenotype that resembles a wildtype ancestor, usually one that is extinct.

In an attempt to help him, Shaun's animal rights activist girlfriend Ashley ( Schuyler Fisk ) successfully convinces her friend Tanya ( Carly Pope ) to allow Shaun to be interviewed at his home by Tanya's grandfather, a Stanford board member, so Shaun can explain his situation.

While attendance for this first serious attempt to create a " funny animal fandom " convention was sparse at 65 persons, it was enough to encourage the Californians to attempt a full fledged furry convention next year.

The recent experiments on animal language are perhaps the most sophisticated attempt yet to establish human / animal communication, though their relation to natural animal communication is uncertain.