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As a result, on 13 Adar, five hundred attackers and Haman's ten sons are killed in Shushan, followed by a Jewish slaughter of seventy-five thousand Persians, although they took no plunder.

Tacitus says that the Britons had no interest in taking or selling prisoners, only in slaughter by gibbet, fire, or cross.

" In retribution, Wallace and several villagers slaughter the English garrison and execute the sheriff.

The immense slaughter marked one of the most catastrophic defeats in the history of the Roman Empire and resulted in the death of Decius himself.

The Polish forces attacked the panicked Cossacks and the battle turned into a slaughter.

“ If you slaughter sheep, you will be considered guilty of a crime .” He issued a regulation to that effect ... 1279 / 1280 under Qubilai all the Muslims say: “ if someone else slaughters animal we do not eat ”.

Oxen have been long used for farming and Chinese governments have frequently strictly prohibited the slaughter of oxen for food.

The slaughter effectively ended the threat to the new government, while, at the same time, made Bonaparte a famous — and popular — public figure.

This slaughter forced the tiny surviving Party to switch from a workers ' union-to a peasant, guerilla-based organization, and to seek the aid of the most heterodox sources: from " patriotic capitalists " to the dreaded KMT itself, with which it openly sought to participate in a coalition government, even after the Japanese general surrender in 1945.

A battle, fought near Dollar, was a heavy defeat for the Picts ; the Annals of Ulster say that " a great slaughter of the Picts resulted ".

This arrangement barely survived Constantine I ’ s death, with the sons of Constantine arranging the slaughter of most of the family of Constantine I at the hands of the army.

A group of " Mabden " ( men ) led by the savage Earl Glandyth-a-Krae raid the family castle and slaughter everyone with the exception of Corum, who escapes.

Desperate to stop the slaughter, Corum, Rhalina and Jhary Corum travel to the last five planes, ruled by Mabelode, the King of the Swords.

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.

Benton had professed beliefs in theistic satanism during Deicide's early years, claimed to slaughter rodents for fun, and that he held beliefs in demonic possession and that he was possessed.

Soon afterwards, an uprising in Kabul led to the slaughter of Britain's Resident in Kabul, Sir Pierre Cavagnari and his guards and staff on 3 September 1879, provoking the second phase of the Second Afghan War.

A few people, however, will take shelter in the wilderness to escape the carnage, and when the slaughter is over, they will come out of hiding and resolve to take up a life of skillful and virtuous action again.

Their spirits were buoyed on Christmas Eve – when they chose to camp in the lush Dercervian valley near Ephesus, they were ambushed by a Turkish detachment ; the French proceeded to slaughter this detachment and appropriate their camp.

In popular culture, the mass production of food, specifically meats such as chicken and beef, has come under fire from various documentaries, most recently Food, Inc, documenting the mass slaughter and poor treatment of animals, often for easier revenues from large corporations.

The preparation of animal-based food usually involves slaughter, evisceration, hanging, portioning, and rendering.

This act, like those in many countries, exempts slaughter in accordance to religious law, such as kosher, shechita, and dhabiĥa halal.

In the stanza that follows, the völva describes that Odin's " tall child of Triumph's Sire " ( Odin's son Víðarr ) will then come to " strike at the beast of slaughter ," and with his hands, he will drive a sword onto the heart of " Hveðrungr's son ," avenging the death of his father.

Stone quarrying, sugar-beet farming, and the slaughter of sheep were among the area's earliest industries.

Baby Doc's kleptocracy left the regime vulnerable to unanticipated crises, exacerbated by endemic poverty, most notably the epidemic of African swine fever virus — which, at the insistence of USAID officials, led to the slaughter of the creole pigs, the principal source of income for most peasants ; and the widely-publicized outbreak of AIDS in the early 1980s.

After the slaughter of D ' sparil, Corvus ends up on a perilous journey with little hope to return home.