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Deborah Spera

Prior to her tenure at Showtime, she was in features at Regency Films and worked on Guilty by Suspicion, JFK, Free Willy, Under Siege and Sommersby.


Zlata's Diary

Zlata's Diary (ISBN 0-14-024205-8) is a book by Zlata Filipović, who was a young girl living in Sarajevo while it was under siege.


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Abdullah ibn Saad

When Abdullah reached Elath, he was told that Uthman's house was under siege (Siege of Uthman) and decided to return to Egypt.

Battle of Dujaila

With the Poona Division under siege, the high commands in London and Simla began scrambling to put together a relief force.

Battle of Mylae

There he saved the city of Segesta, which had been under siege from the Carthaginian infantry commander Hamilcar.

Battle of Okita Nawate

The allies put Shimabara under siege and Takanobu marched to relieve the castle with his main army.

Bowman H. McCalla

McCalla's force of 112 men spearheaded an international column, under British Admiral Sir Edward Seymour, which was attempting to fight its way to the aid of foreign legations under siege at Peking.

Carole Seymour-Jones

She is the author of Beatrice Webb: A Life (1992); Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, first wife of T.S. Eliot (2001), which she wrote as a visiting fellow at the University of Texas at Austin; and A Dangerous Liaison (2009), about the relationship between Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre; as well as co-editor of Writers Under Siege: Voices of Freedom from Around the World (2007).

Cassivellaunus

Five British tribes, the Cenimagni, the Segontiaci, the Ancalites, the Bibroci and the Cassi, surrendered to Caesar and revealed the location of Cassivellaunus's stronghold, thought to be at Wheathampstead, which Caesar proceeded to put under siege.

Clémentine Delauney

2009: Tales of the Sands" (Myrath) (Vocals on "Under Siege")

Countess Albertine Agnes of Nassau

When Groningen was under siege, Albertine Agnes hastened to the city to give moral support.

Dutchbat

DUTCHBAT's zone fell under siege by the VRS, when NATO air forces began bombing the Bosnian Serbs besieging Sarajevo.

Emperor Xuan of Western Liang

He put Jiangling under siege, but his attack was affected by heavy rains and repelled by Xiao Yi's general Wang Sengbian, and when his own general Du Ze (杜崱) surrendered to Xiao Yi, and Du Ze's brother Du An (杜岸) further launched a surprise attack on Xiao Cha's headquarters at Xiangyang (襄陽, in modern Xiangfan, Hubei), Xiao Cha was forced to withdraw back to Xiangyang.

Inishowen

Inis Eoghain is also the ancient homeland of the Mac Lochlainn clan (descended from the tribe of Eoghan), a clan that grew so formidable that they eventually came under siege by a Limerick King, who came north to Aileach, and ordered the destruction of Aileach fort, and that each soldier was to carry away a stone from the fort in order to prevent its rebuilding.

Johari Abdul-Malik

When Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, who worshiped at Dar al-Hijrah and had been a camp counselor for and taught Islamic studies at the mosque, was charged by American prosecutors with plotting with members of Al Qaeda to assassinate President George W. Bush, Abdul-Malik said in February 2005: "Our whole community is under siege. They don't see this as a case of criminality. They see it as a civil rights case. As a frontal attack on their community."

Jonathan Olley

In 1994, he traveled to Bosnia to live under siege in Sarajevo, taking news photographs for the Boston Globe, Paris Match, L’Express and The Guardian newspaper.

Legend of Saint Ursula

It describes the arrival of the pilgrims, accompanied by the Pope, at Cologne, then under siege by the Huns.

Luli

From 724 to 720 BC, Tyre was under siege, the port being blockaded by Shalmaneser.

Parzival

In Book IV Parzival meets and falls in love with the maiden Condwiramurs when he lends his aid to her town, which is under siege.

Perfect English

Pickering was for a while under siege in the Nicaraguan town of Bluefields, where he helped former Baader-Meinhof printer, novelist and playwright, Peter-Paul Zahl, build a Bertolt Brecht youth theatre after his first was destroyed in the invasion of Grenada.

Police Academy 6: City Under Siege

Police Academy 6: City Under Siege is a 1989 comedy crime film starring Bubba Smith, David Graf and Michael Winslow.

PT-76

They requested support from nearby Khe Sanh, which was unable to help, as it too was under siege.

Rory Jennings

His radio and audio credits include: Just Prose (BBC Radio 3), Feelings Under Siege (BBC Northern Ireland) and I, Davros (Big Finish Productions), in which he played the iconic Doctor Who villain Davros during his youth.

Sir Shah Sulaiman Hall

With Aligarh Fort, it was also fortified and commanded by Perron till the Battle of Ally Ghur in the year of 1802, when it was laid under siege by the British 76th Regiment, now known as the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, under General Lord Gerard Lake.

The Desert Flower

Although based on Halévy's Jaguarita l'Indienne, the setting is shifted from Dutch Guyana to a Dutch settlement in North America under siege by Indians, led by their beautiful queen, Oanita.

The First Templar

Acre, in Palestine, the last Christian city in the Holy Land is under siege and about to fall into Mamluk hands.

The Negotiator

With the building evacuated and placed under siege by police (including Roman's unit) and the FBI, Roman issues his conditions, which include finding Roenick's informant and summoning police Lt. Chris Sabian (Kevin Spacey), another top negotiator.

Transition from Sui to Tang

Emperor Yang personally led part of the army to put the important city Liaodong (遼東, in modern Liaoyang, Liaoning) under siege, while he sent the generals Yuwen Shu and Yu Zhongwen (于仲文) to lead the rest of the army deep into Goguryeo territory, heading toward the Goguryeo capital Pyongyang, joined by the fleet commanded by the general Lai Hu'er (來護兒).

Workers' Aid for Bosnia

It appealed for workers in Britain to take food to the mining communities of Tuzla, the multi-ethnic bastion of Bosnia and Herzegovina that had been under siege by nationalist forces for many months.

Yuwen Shu

Emperor Yang's main forces put Goguryeo's key northern city Liaodong (遼東, in modern Liaoyang, Liaoning) under siege (although he was ultimately unable to capture it), but sent Yuwen with a branch army to head deep south, across the Yalu River, heading directly toward the Goguryeo capital Pyongyang.

Zhong Kuangshi

The first historical reference to Zhong Kuangshi was in 901, when Zhong Chuan attacked Wei Quanfeng the prefect of Fu Prefecture (撫州, in modern Fuzhou, Jiangxi) and put Fu Prefecture under siege.