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Symplectic cut

The symplectic cut can also be viewed as a generalization of symplectic blow up.



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2006 al-Askari Mosque bombing

After the crimes against the places of worship, including the blowing up of the mausoleum in Samarra and the attacks against the tombs of Salman the Persian and Imam Ali bin Mussa al-Rida, the tribes must take a stand and claim a role in the protection of these sites.

Alexander Abian

Abian gained a degree of international notoriety for his claim that blowing up the Moon would solve virtually every problem of human existence.

Battle of Orthez

That evening, the French escaped across the Luy de Béarn River at Sault-de-Navailles in some disorder, blowing up the bridge behind them.

Case White

Alistair MacLean's 1968 thriller novel Force 10 From Navarone, subsequently filmed, also brings forth the fight of outnumbered Partisans against Germans and Chetniks, and the blowing up of the Neretva bridge.

Grand Director

Burnside's plan involves blowing up Hoover Dam to rally other groups like the Watchdogs behind him.

Greek Resistance

These developments emerged most dramatically as the Greek Resistance announced its presence to the world with one of the war's most spectacular sabotage acts, the blowing up of the Gorgopotamos railway bridge, linking northern and southern Greece, on 25 November 1942.

Jacques MacDonald

After the blowing up of the last bridge over the river, he managed to swim the Elster, but Poniatowski drowned.

James Fegan

In March 1868, while escorting a powder train en route from Fort Harker to Fort Dodge, Kansas, he single-handedly prevented a mob from blowing up the train to free an army deserter.

Luigi Rocca

Followed more blowing up originals in collaboration with Pleasurekraft, John Acquaviva, Manuel De la Mare and Hugo.

Malcolm Munthe

Later recruited to the Special Operations Executive, he worked behind enemy lines in occupied Scandinavia - both in Norway and Sweden - as a spy and saboteur, famously blowing up a Nazi munitions train some 70 miles from his own family home in Leksand, Dalarna.

Night of Fire

By blowing up the electricity pylons the electricity supply to the Bolzano industrial zone, a powerful symbol of the ex-fascist regime, was cut off.

OMG HGB DVD ROTFL

Besides containing another acoustic rendition of "Homewrecker", the segment also gives insight on Hellogoodbye's backstage routines, such as blowing up inflatable pool toys and waging Super Soaker wars on Houston Calls.

Palle Torsson

Using the graphic engine of existing video games such as Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Quake and Half-Life they transformed the museum architecture into violent first-person shooter games where the museum visitor could wander around inside a virtual version of the museum killing and blowing up master pieces.

Richard Paul Pavlick

On December 11, 1960 in Palm Beach, Florida, Pavlick positioned himself to carry out the assassination by blowing up Kennedy and himself with dynamite, but delayed the attempt because Kennedy was with his wife and children.

The Night of Morningstar

"The Watchmen" is an international terrorist organization that has sprung out of nowhere and is making major assaults, for example killing the entire Turkish Embassy staff in Madrid, wrecking a French nuclear power plant, and blowing up a dam in Utah.

Thomas Bates

Bates was born at Lapworth in Warwickshire, and became a retainer to Robert Catesby, who from 1604 planned to kill King James I by blowing up the House of Lords with gunpowder, and inciting a popular revolt during which a Catholic monarch would be restored to the English throne.

Thomas Machin

who had made a wager with French General Rochambeau regarding the relative accuracy of French and American Artillery by blowing up a British troop transport.