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unusual facts about Stab



Andreas Baader

RAF member Irmgard Möller was found with four stab wounds to her chest, but survived.

Bill Vander Zalm

After many years out of the spotlight, Vander Zalm again took a stab at office by running in Delta South in a by-election in 1999 for the Reform Party of British Columbia.

Chic Charnley

Despite suffering a stab wound to his hand when one of the boys brandished a Samurai sword, Charnley was able to disable his attacker with a punch.

Critical hit

The concept represents the effect of hitting an artery, or finding a weak point, such as a stab merely in the leg causing less damage than a stab in the Achilles tendon.

Duncan Forbes, Lord Culloden

As lord advocate he had been engaged in 1728 in the prosecution of James Carnegie of Finhaven, who had been grossly insulted during one of the usual convivial parties at a funeral by a Mr. Bridgeton, and, trying to stab Bridgeton, had killed Lord Strathmore.

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.

Hitotsume-kozō

Also, depending on the region, hiiragi are used to pierce baskets, but this is what "to stab one eye" means in those places.

Jagdgeschwader 400

JG 400 was formed on 1 February 1944 in Brandis with Stab only for the Messerschmitt Me 163 rocket fighter, as the only military aviation unit of any size in history, to actively use rocket-powered combat aircraft in wartime.

Kampfgeschwader 27

KG 27 was part of Luftflotte 3 during the Battle of Britain, with their Headquarters 'Stab' and I Gruppe based at Tours, II Gruppe at Dinard and Bourges, and III Gruppe at Rennes.

Karl Decker

As a major, he was transferred to the Stab of the Kavellerieregiment 15 together with Horst Niemack.

Mario's Tennis

The Rome News-Tribune referred to Mario's Tennis as "the only...decent stab at tennis" prior to the release of Sega's 2000 Dreamcast game Virtua Tennis.

Matthew Pritchard

On 7 September 2009, Pritchard was attacked with a knife in a supermarket in Toftwood, Norfolk, suffering serious stab wounds to his neck and chest.

Microman

However, the sword, also included with the Japanese "U.N.C.L.E." version, was excluded from the American Megatron, possibly for fear that children may stab themselves in the eye with the sword.

Murray-Wright High School

On November 30, 1970 a 17-year old student received stab injuries in a cafeteria, and was in serious condition at the Detroit Receiving Hospital.

Paul Vaessen

In 1985, Vaessen almost died from stab wounds suffered when a drug deal went wrong and dealers knifed him in a side street off the Old Kent Road in South East London.

The Lunatic Cafe

Gabriel attacks Anita, forcing her to stab him with a silver knife, but he forces the knife deeper, apparently out of a severe form of masochism.

Werner projection

Stab-Werner refers to two originators: Johannes Werner (1466–1528), a parish priest in Nuremberg, refined and promoted this projection that had been developed earlier by Johannes Stabius (Stab) of Vienna around 1500.


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