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Windows 8.1

It was also found that changes to screen resolution handling on 8.1 resulted in mouse input lag in certain video games that do not use the DirectInput API's—particularly first-person shooter games, including Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Hitman: Absolution, and Metro 2033.


1993–94 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season

The return of Alan Shearer from a long-term injury saw him make a swift return to his superb form of old, with the 23-year-old hitman scoring 31 goals in the league.

AMT Hardballer

In the Hitman video game series, dual custom AMT Hardballers (called 'Silverballers' in Hitman: Contracts and Hitman: Blood Money) are 47's signature weapons.

Béla Drahos

He was conductor during the recording of the critically acclaimed soundtrack of Hitman 2: Silent Assassin and Hitman: Blood Money, composed by Jesper Kyd and performed by the Budapest Symphony Orchestra and Hungarian Radio Choir.

Black Moon Rising

Working for the US Government to retrieve a cassette with vital information, Sam Quint, a former CIA agent (Jones), runs into Marvin Ringer (Lee Ving), another hitman he replaced, who is after the same cassette.

Bob Freville

The films exhibited were The Prophet of Lake Erie, a short directed by Jake McGee and The Irish Car Bomb, Neyman's follow-up to The Slasher which starred McGee as "Vegas Lou," a ruthless hitman, and Freville as "Drex Swann," a sawed-off Caucasian pimp.

Brockhall Village

Property tycoon Gerald Hitman (who died on 4 June 2009) was the man behind the Brockhall Village development, where he also built his own magnificent home, The Old Zoo.

Brooke Freeman

Brooke is shot by hitman Don Lennox (Chris Easley), after he mistakes her for Justine and she survives the attack.

Buddy Buddy

Hitman Trabucco has been hired to eliminate Rudy "Disco" Gambola before he testifies against fellow members of the Mob, but completing the contract becomes problematic once he encounters suicidal Victor Clooney, an emotionally disturbed television censor staying in the room adjacent to his in the Ramona Hotel in Riverside, California.

Bullet in the Face

While robbing a jewelry store, Gunter Vogler (Max Williams), a sociopath and universally feared hitman, receives an order from his boss, Tannhäuser, to kill his partner and lover, Martine Mahler (Kate Kelton).

Dada Nada

Producers, mixers and writers that worked with the act: Frankie Knuckles & David Morales, Mike "Hitman" Wilson, Bad Boy Bill, Steve Wight and Bob Greenberg.

Dead Clean

A Greek window cleaner (Sachs) is mistaken for a Greek hitman (Richie) and employed by Tony Judd (Mark Chapman) to murder business partner Frazer Morton (David Weller).

Dead Fish

Lynch (Gary Oldman), an emotionless bon-vivant hitman, stops a thief who stole a cell phone from Mimi (Elena Anaya) in a train station.

Disco in Dream

The tour took place in Asia, and after in Europe the tour would be re-titled as The Hitman Roadshow (sponsored by Coca-Cola) and advertised as The Coca-Cola Hitman Roadshow, as free concerts to "thank British fans' support".

DJ Flash

Other DJ Flash productions include ICE T Cold As Ever (Hitman/Blue Dolphin), and The Original 2 Live Crew, which featured early recordings by The 2 Live Crew.

Faf Larage

:Faf Larage- Mr Claude dans le jeu Hitman: Contracts, dans la dernière mission, dans la chambre d'un camé.

Franz Fuchs

In computer games Hitman: Codename 47 and Hitman: Contracts, a character named Frantz Fuchs is an Austrian terrorist, who served in Hitlerjugend as a youngster, planning to blow up a hotel at which a peace summit is being held.

Freddie Foreman

He additionally claimed to have intimidated witnesses to the killing of George Cornell in the Blind Beggar pub in Whitechapel by Ronnie Kray and to having been a hitman for the Kray twins.

Geneva Locke

Recently, stock footage of her portrayal of "Young Max" in Dark Angel was used in the 2007 action film Hitman starring Timothy Olyphant.

Get Smart, Again!

The script is littered with typical Maxwell Smart verbal gags, and large portions of the plot serve only as set-ups for Get Smart!-style sight gags (such as a duel between Max and a KAOS hitman using remote controlled file cabinet drawers).

Hallgrímur Helgason

His best-known works are 101 Reykjavík, which was made into a popular film of the same name, Höfundur Íslands (The Author of Iceland), which won the Icelandic Literary Prize in 2001, and The Hitman's Guide to House Cleaning.

Harry Maione

Harry "Happy" Maione (October 7, 1908 – February 19, 1942) was a New York mobster who served as a hitman for Murder, Inc. (the enforcement arm of the National Crime Syndicate) during the 1930s.

Hearns

Ronald Hearns (born 1984), American professional boxer and the son of Thomas "Hitman" Hearns

Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows

Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows is a 1998 documentary film, written by Paul Jay, which follows World Wrestling Federation superstar Bret Hart during his last year in the WWF, from his WWF Championship victory at SummerSlam to his final match with the company and the infamous Montreal Screwjob at Survivor Series on November 9, 1997.

Hitman: Enemy Within

Agent 47 - The protagonist of the Hitman series; a genetically-altered clone assassin who utilizes various disguises while on-assignment.

The novel's plot is set between Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, Hitman: Contracts and Hitman: Blood Money and revolves around a rival murder-for-hire organization, known as Puissance Treize (French for "Power Thirteen"), attempting to destroy Agent 47's employer, the International Contract Agency (ICA).

I Hired a Contract Killer

He tries to commit suicide but because he continuously fails, decides to hire a hitman (Kenneth Colley) to finish the job.

Le Boulet

The Turk's bodyguard (played by Gary Tiplady) is a reference to the notorious hitman known as "Jaws" played by Richard Kiel in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979).

Le Samouraï

Hong Kong director Pang Ho-Cheung's 2001 crime-and-filmmaking comedy You Shoot, I Shoot features Eric Kot as a hitman who idolizes Alain Delon's Jef, dressing like the character, and speaking to him via a Le Samouraï poster in his apartment.

In the same manner that Jef Costello has a huge ring of keys that enables him to steal any Citroën DS, the hitman Ghost Dog has an electronic "key" to break into luxury cars.

Leslie Herbert Kane

The body of Les Kane was loaded into the boot of his distinctive pink Ford Futura by a fourth man believed to be hitman Rodney "The Duke" Collins who was outside during the murder, and neither the body nor the car were seen again.

Many-angled ones

The beings were referenced in the DC comic book Hitman, by Garth Ennis, which briefly featured demons called "The Multi-Angled Ones" who end up killing most of Section 8.

Mel Novak

One of his more high-profile parts from the 70's was as the hitman Stick in Game of Death (1978), directed by Robert Clouse.

Norman Stansfield

When Stansfield learns that the holder has been stealing some of the drugs for himself, he and his henchmen gun down the man's entire family, with the exception of 12-year-old Mathilda (Natalie Portman), who is able to find refuge with neighbor, and professional hitman, Léon (Jean Reno).

Obećana Riječ

"Obećana Riječ" (English: Promised Word) is a song by Bosnian rapper Edo Maajka, which details the life of Alan, an ex-soldier, who became an hitman after the war in Bosnia.

Rasmus Højengaard

The Hitman (2007 film) that was released in 2007 is based on the main character of the Hitman games, Agent 47.

Reto-Moto

The Reto-Moto development team was originally founded by members of Zyrinx and Lemon in 1998 and was responsible for the creation of IO Interactive and the Hitman series of video games.

Riyadh Al-Azzawi

Al-Azzawi said his spouse's former lover, Egyptian business tycoon and member of Egyptian Parliament Hisham Talaat Moustafa had offered Suzanne Tamim $50m to lure her away from Al-Azzawi and marry him — and threatened to pay $2m to a hitman to have Suzanne killed in revenge if she refused to marry him.

Run 2

An extended mix of "Run 2" with additional beats by Afrika Islam and an alternate 'minus' mix of "MTO" by Mike 'Hitman' Wilson appear as B-sides on the 12" version of the single.

Survive Style 5+

The stories clash together through the intervention of a thuggish hitman (Vinnie Jones) and his translator (Yoshiyoshi Arakawa).

Tintin and the Golden Fleece

Marcel Bozzuffi, who plays the thug Angorapoulos, is best known as the hitman pursued in the famous car chase and shot by Gene Hackman in The French Connection.

Veselin Vukotić

Veselin "Vesko" Vukotić, Montenegrin hitman and criminal, known for murders of Enver Hadri and Andrija Lakonić.

Zeyda and the Hitman

Tully gave the would-be hitman a $1,000 downpayment for the hit, $200 to buy Fisher drinks, and the murder weapons: a jar of Kraft peanut butter and a bottle of peanut oil.


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