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22 unusual facts about Assassin


Advice to a Friend on Choosing a Mistress

The letter is also referenced during a conversation with Benjamin Franklin in the 2012 video game Assassin's Creed III during a cutscene in a general store.

Armand Bouchart

Armand Bouchart is featured in the video game Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines as the main antagonist and Grand Master of the Templar Order.

Assassin's Apprentice

One night he is also introduced to a recluse named Chade, who is a skilled assassin.

The Dutch symphonic metal band Within Temptation used this book as inspiration for their song "Hand of Sorrow" from their album The Heart of Everything.

Assassin's Creed II: Discovery

Ubisoft's producer Ben Mattes officially revealed the development of the game in Apple Inc.'s keynote speech on September 9, 2009, for a November 17 release.

Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines

Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines is a video game exclusively for the PlayStation Portable and is part of the Assassin's Creed franchise, taking place in between the events of Assassin's Creed and Assassin's Creed II.

Once there, he learns of the presence of Armand Bouchart, who has succeeded Robert de Sablé, as Grand Master of the Templar Order.

Assassin's Creed: Brahman

Brahman is written again by The Fall and The Chain writers, Cameron Stewart and Karl Kerschl, and published by UbiWorkshop.

Assassin's Creed: The Chain

The Chain is written again by The Fall writers, Cameron Stewart and Karl Kerschl, but is this time published by UbiWorkshop.

Basilica Cistern

In the 2011 video game, Assassin's Creed: Revelations, the player controlled character, Ezio Auditore, is given the chance to explore a section of this cistern in a memory sequence entitled The Yerebatan Cistern.

Bernardo de Gálvez

In the Ubisoft video game Assassin's Creed III, a fictionalized representation of Gálvez is available to download as a playable character for the game's multiplayer mode.

Conrad Celtes

Conrad Celtis is referenced in the Ubisoft video game Assassin's Creed Brotherhood as the target of an assassin's contract in Cologne.

Diego Stocco

He has done sound design and performed for video games such as Assassin's Creed, Far Cry Instincts and The Conduit.

Galeazzo Maria Sforza

In the short film series, Assassin's Creed: Lineage (a live-action short film set in the Assassin's Creed videogame franchise), the Duke's assassination is depicted with some liberties, with the protagonist Giovanni Auditore arriving only in time to see Lampugnani stab Sforza in the abdomen.

Jean du Casse

In the video game Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, Du Casse serves as one of the antagonists, albeit it is an alternate, younger form of him.

Laureano de Torres y Ayala

He made an appearance in Ubisoft action-adventure game, Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, as one of the main antagonists and a Grand Master of the Templar Order.

Maiden's Tower

The tower was featured in the game Assassin's Creed: Revelations where it is the location of one Masyaf key that the playable character must collect to complete the game.

Manuel Palaiologos

In Assassin's Creed: Revelations (2011), Palaiologos plays a central role to the plot as one of the main antagonists.

Manuel Tadros

He is the voice of Rodrigo Borgia in the Ubisoft game Assassin's Creed II and its follow-up Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood in addition to a number of animated films.

Master Sibrand

Sibrand is one of the assassination targets in the original Assassin's Creed video game, where he is depicted as excessivly paranoid (due to the players recent success).

Supinfogame

Thus, many students and graduates appear in the credits of significant published games like: Dishonored, Assassin's Creed, Crysis 2, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, Far Cry 3, Splinter Cell Double Agent, Rayman Raving Rabbids, Star Wars: Lethal Alliance and so on.

Tiber Island

The island serves as the player's headquarters in the 2010 action-adventure stealth video game Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.


Caserio

Sante Geronimo Caserio (1873–1894), Italian anarchist and assassin of Marie François Sadi Carnot

Charles Marcil

Another notable relative was Charles Marcil's maternal uncle, Edward P. Doherty, an American Civil War officer who formed and led the detachment of soldiers that captured and killed John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of United States President Abraham Lincoln.

Chuck Versus the Push Mix

Volkoff mocks his attempt at revenge while managing to escape from his bonds, revealing that his men will execute Mary unless he says otherwise and an assassin, Armand (Igor Jijikine), has been sent to kill both Casey and Ellie.

Death by Degrees

Nina Williams, world-renowned assassin, has been hired by the CIA and MI6 to join a team which is attempting to infiltrate "Kometa," a notorious criminal organization.

Fidel Sierra

While wrestling in Canada as "Crazy" David Patterson, Sierra asked permission from the original Cuban Assassin, Angel Acevedo, to use the 'Cuban Assassin' character, to which Acevedo agreed, on the condition that Sierra did not use the name or gimmick in Japan.

Françoise Yip

She did two movies with Jet Li, the first as a lead romantic interest in Black Mask and the second in Romeo Must Die, but this time she played a Chinese gangster motorcycle assassin killed by Jet Li and Aaliyah.

Greg Baldwin

His voice can also be heard on numerous video games: Rainbow 6: Lockdown, Assassin's Creed 2, F.E.A.R., Bioshock among many others.

Hero in the Shadows

Waylander, the assassin anti-hero of Waylander and Waylander II, is now a rich old man looking for a world that will give him peace and atonement for his crimes.

I Am Alive

The game was first rumored to be in development in July 2008, when it was known that Assassin's Creed producer Jade Raymond was working on a new game, which was announced at E3 2008, along with a trailer.

I, Assassin

The album cover of I, Assassin was influenced by that of Frank Sinatra's 1954 album Songs for Young Lovers.

Internationalist–defencist schism

This included many former Internationalists, German Independent Social-Democrats like Rudolf Hilferding, Austro-Marxists like Max and Friedrich Adler, Mensheviks like Dan, centre-left SRs like Chernov and the Left SRs.

Iver Johnson

Presidential assassin Leon Czolgosz shot and wounded U.S. President William McKinley in Buffalo, New York on September 6, 1901 with an Iver Johnson .32 caliber Safety Automatic revolver (serial number 463344).

Jason Croot

Jason also plays alongside Tamzin Outhwaite as a Bulgarian Assassin, Ivano Popov, in series 2 of The Fixer, a drama for ITV by Kudos Productions which was directed by the highly acclaimed Sam Miller.

Jessika Van

Her theater credits include playing the Assassin/Kit Kat Girl in DOMA Theater Company's production of Cabaret at The Met Theater Mainstage in Los Angeles.

John R. Brady

President James A. Garfield died over two months after he was shot by an assassin, Charles Guiteau.

Kasnia

In Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman, a faction of the Kasnian military attempts to purchase a large number of high-tech weapons from Gotham mobsters The Penguin, Rupert Thorne, and the assassin Bane.

L'Alpagueur

The main plot revolves around l'Alpagueur's pursuit of l'Épervier, (Sparrowhawk) a bank robber and an assassin, who kills whoever sees him commit a crime.

Lady Grace Mysteries

The first four books, Assassin, Betrayal, Conspiracy, Deception and the later Feud, were written by Patricia Finney, and the other books are co-written by Sara Volger and Jan Burchett.

Lindsey Ginter

He is known as Crew Cut Man, Deep Throat's assassin, in the TV series The X-Files and as Sam Austen, Kate Austen's father, in Lost.

Lorenzo Brentano

In this line of work he published a report of the trial of the assassin of President Garfield, and a history of the celebrated case of Kring v. Missouri (see List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 107).

Luagalau Levaula Kamu

His assassin was a 34-year-old man, Eletise Leafa Vitale, the son of Leafa Vitale who had been the previous Minister of Public Works (and who had been dismissed from that position the preceding November by Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, following a scandal involving accusations of embezzlement of public funds).

Ma 6-T va crack-er

Artists such as IAM, X-Men, Assassin, KRS-One, 2 Bal, Mystik and more feature on the soundtrack, supporting Jean-François Richet's cinematography.

Marine Corps Brig, Quantico

Over the years, there were some prominent inmates at the Brig, including John Hinckley, Jr., a would-be presidential assassin, Clayton J. Lonetree, the Marine Security Guard who provided classified information to the KGB while stationed at the U.S. Embassy, Moscow from 1984 to 1986, and Rayful Edmond, largely credited with introducing crack cocaine into the Washington, D.C., area.

Martinique

In Assassin's Creed III, Benjamin Church was trying to escape from Boston to get away from Haytham Kenway and Ratonhnhaké:ton until they caught him in Martinique.

Norte del Valle Cartel

The consequences of such an internal vendetta led Colombian authorities to intervene in order to increase law enforcement efforts against the cartel, which resulted in the 2004 arrest of some 100 assassins in the employ of both rival factions, and in the 2005 capture of Varela's close associate Julio César López (alias "Ojitos", or "Small Eyes"), and Montoya's chief hatchetman, Carlos José Robayo Escobar (alias "Guacamayo", or "Macaw"), among others.

One Armed Boxer

This group consists of two karate experts and their teacher, a Judo master, a Taekwondo expert, two Thai boxing fighters, a Yoga expert, and two mystic Tibetan lamas (who are later revealed in the sequel to be students of an Imperial Assassin).

Prayers for the Assassin

Prayers for the Assassin is a political thriller, and a work of speculative fiction, written by American crime writer Robert Ferrigno.

Ralph Ineson

He will give his voice and likeness to act as the infamous pirate Charles Vane in Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag'.

Roger Craig Smith

He is generally known as the current voice behind Chris Redfield in the Resident Evil series, as Ezio Auditore da Firenze in the Assassin's Creed games, the current voice of Steve Rogers/Captain America in Ultimate Spider-Man and the series Avengers Assemble, and as the voice of Batman in the video game Batman: Arkham Origins.

Sam Houston Clinton

(September 17, 1923 – October 5, 2004) was a Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge, who as a lawyer represented both atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair and Jack Ruby, the man who shot and killed presidential assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald.

Speedy Noriega

Following positive reviews on the site, Speedy was then contacted by Tupac Shakur producer and DJ "Assassin" and DJ Hackavelli to produce for a in an upcoming Tupac Shakur, CD "The Way He Wanted It Vol 2" At the same time he was sought out by Jive records to produce for platinum rap group UGK.

Stepan Balmashov

Stepan Balmashov was the assassin of Russian Minister of Internal Affairs Dmitry Sipyagin, whom he shot on April 2, 1902 (O.S.) in the Mariinsky Palace in St. Petersburg.

Subaru Sumeragi

When Subaru's sister Hokuto is killed by the man he loved, Seishirō Sakurazuka, Subaru goes on a quest to confront the assassin.

The Emperor's Shadow

According to Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian, Gao Jianli was a friend of the assassin Jing Ke, who fails in an attempt upon Ying Zheng's life.

The Last Contract

The film is based on a novel by an anonymous writer, who used the pseudonym "John W. Grow", which suggests that a British professional assassin (played by Michael Kitchen) was hired to kill Olof Palme.

The Martyred Presidents

In the second shot, which runs just over eight seconds long, an assassin kneels feet of Lady Justice.

Walter Smith Cox

During his service, he presided over the trial of Charles J. Guiteau, the assassin of President James A. Garfield.