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Titel: The Book of Assassins: A Biographical Dictionary from Ancient Times to the Present
Verlag: Wiley
Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0471158917
ISBN-13: 9780471158912
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag

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ASSASSIN TRIVI

Julius Caesar?s assassination may have been patricide. His last words were not "Et tu Brute," as Shakespeare suggests, but "kai su teknon"?Greek for "You too, my child." These words were particularly appropriate when one considers the rumors that surrounded Brutus?s paternity (see BRUTUS)

Perhaps the most unusual weapon ever used in an assassination attempt was the "infernal machine." The device was composed of twenty-five rifles that could be fired simultaneously by a single trigger. Ironically, the would-be assassin?s intended victim walked away unhurt, while most of those crowded around him did not (see FIESCHI)

When a hunchbacked dwarf fired a shot at Queen Victoria, London police arrested every hunchbacked dwarf in the capital until they found the right one (see BEAN)

Rigoberto L�pez not only shot and killed Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza but also anonymously won a newspaper contest for the best poem eulogizing the dead leader (see L�PEZ)

President Andrew Jackson survived two attempted assassinations on the same day. When his hapless attacker?s pistol misfired, he drew a second pistol?which also misfired. Jackson beat the man with his cane until help arrived (see LAWRENCE)

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GEORGE FETHERLING is the author of fifty books. A former literary editor at the Toronto Star and a regular columnist and book reviewer, Mr. Fetherling lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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