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17 January - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham fights a duel with Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury in which the Earl of Shrewsbury is fatally wounded.
19 October — The last fatal duel on English soil takes place on Priest Hill, between Englefield Green and Old Windsor, between two French refugees, Cournet and Barthelemy, the former being killed.
The last two days of the race consisted of a duel between Mikko Hirvonen, who drove a factory 2006 model Ford Focus RS WRC, and Chris Atkinson in a factory Subaru Impreza WRC 2006.
"A Christmas Duel" is a special Christmas duet recorded by the Swedish rock band The Hives and American singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper.
Bishop keeps Markov locked in a duel, eventually ending up at the White House; Markov manages to fire the missile before being shot down and killed, but Bishop manages to intercept it and destroy it harmlessly onto the Tidal Basin.
In Game 1 of the first round, Hutchison won a 17-inning pitching duel against the stellar Jean Faut.
He also made many speeches, in Birmingham and elsewhere, in which he set out his claim and challenged the King to a duel, with the loser to be beheaded.
The acting commander after Creutz' sudden demise, Admiral Claes Uggla, was surrounded and his flagship Svärdet battered in a drawn-out artillery duel, eventually being set ablaze by a fireship.
The duel was the subject of an episode of Timewatch on BBC television, broadcast on 9 February 2007 entitled "The Last Duel".
Infatuated with an actress (Mademoiselle Fleury), he was thwarted in his intention of marrying her and met his rival, the count of Bourbon-Busset, in a duel.
He had a quarrel extending over years with Philip, the bastard of Savoy, which ended in a duel fatal to Philip in 1599; and in 1620 he defended Saint-Aignan, who was his prisoner of war, against a prosecution threatened by Louis XIII.
Here players can interact with popular Clone Wars characters like Anakin Skywalker, Commander Cody, Captain Rex, and Obi-Wan Kenobi, and play more than 30 different mini-games including Lightsaber Duel, Republic Defender, a tower defense game, and Speeder Bike Racing.
The 1977 Open Championship in golf, which saw an epic duel between Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus
:The player scans in a Duel Terminal compatible Monster card (or lets the machine select a random card from its database), and faces a character from the Yu-Gi-Oh! universe, who also chooses a Monster card, and faces it in a series of mini games.
Alexander Pushkin (died in 1837, of wounds received in a pistol duel)
Three of the most popular projects that he has been involved with were two Steven Spielberg films: Duel and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Westwood Studios landmark computer game Command & Conquer: Red Alert.
Vice admiral Johan de Liefde on the Ridderschap and Myngs on the Victory began a close quarters duel; two musket balls hit Myngs, fatally woundeing him; he died on his return to London.
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).
Baillie was a friend of Benjamin Disraeli, and in 1835 was actually called upon by Disraeli to serve as his second (after d'Orsay declined), when it appeared that Disraeli and Morgan O'Connell, the son of Daniel O'Connell, were going to fight a duel, which apparently did not actually occur.
In the duel between Shulien (Michelle Yeoh) and Jen Yu (Zhang Ziyi) in the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Shulien uses a number of traditional Chinese weapons in turn, one of which is a pair of hook swords.
On 15 November 1712, Hamilton fought a celebrated duel with Charles, Lord Mohun, in Hyde Park, Westminster, in an episode narrated in Thackeray's The History of Henry Esmond.
Since his first visit to the Antarctic, his interest in the history of the exploration of the continent, and the result of years of study, has taken him to write a book” Amundsen-Scott: Duel in the Antarctic”(Forcola 2011), preface by Manuel Toharia and subsequently translated into Bulgarian language, and published by the publisher Ciela, preface by Christo Pimpirev.
When the stadium was being built in the 1960s, Clint Eastwood's Spaghetti Westerns were very popular in Greece, and the stadium's nickname is a reference to Eastwood's 1965 film For a Few Dollars More (which had the Greek title Duel in El Paso), as the stadium's backdrop reminded people of the scenery in the movie.
Takahashi and Mike Mignola, the creator of Hellboy, also participated in an art exchange (with Takahashi drawing Hellboy with Yugi Mutou's hairdo, a Millennium Puzzle, and a duel disk and Mignola drawing Hellboy wearing a Millennium Puzzle and a Yugi T-shirt).
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Originally intended as a one-shot in the manga's episodic introduction of new games, the game was named "Magic and Wizards" as a reference to the card game Magic: The Gathering and its publishing company Wizards of the Coast (the card game's name was changed to "Duel Monsters" in the anime adaptations).
The work is an adaptation of the story of Charlemagne's battles in Spain and the adventures of his nephew, the paladin Orlando (Roland), including the tale of his mortal duel with Ferraguto and his ultimate death at Roncesvalles.
The parish has been represented on the county team on a number of occasions, providing three of the 1947 team that played in the only All Ireland final ever hosted outside of the country, the Kerry-Cavan duel played in The Polo Grounds in New York.
In Game 2, Erickson limited the Daisies to five hits in a 5–2 victory, but lost a pitching duel against Maxine Kline in Game 6.
In 1608, he held a duel with Francisco de Quevedo as a result of Quevedo criticizing one of his works.
The track "Duel" was featured on the 2008 video game Burnout Paradise
On April 4, 1900 Ephrussi and the Count fought a duel with swords on Île de la Jatte in the Seine River at Neuilly in which Ephrussi was wounded in the chest but soon recovered.
The Carrington Incident, published in 1941, was followed by the best-seller Duel in the Sun, which Lewis Selznick's other son David purchased and turned into the 1946 blockbuster of the same title.
It was released in 2003 on Universal Licensing Music (ULM) in France after it was created during the third season of the popular French reality show show "Popstars", called "Popstars - the Duel" aired on RTL Group TV channel M6.
Aspects of the musical cues used in the high noon duel between SpongeBuck and Dead Eye Plankton was from Sergio Leone's 1968 Spaghetti Western film Once Upon a Time in the West, complete with Ennio Morricone's harmonica riff used for the Charles Bronson character.
It was very popular with truckers, but remained mainly unknown by the public until the release of Steven Spielberg's first feature film "Duel" in 1971.
The duel with swords, directed by the Count Leontieff and the Count Avogadro, lasting 26 minutes took place at 5:00 am on 15 August 1897 in the Bois de Marechaux at Vaucresson, France.
Sir Robert Peel, the Home Secretary, who had until then always opposed emancipation (and had, in 1815, challenged O'Connell to a duel) concluded: "though emancipation was a great danger, civil strife was a greater danger."
Many handicappers believed the predicted speed duel with Cormorant would jeopardize the Derby winner's chances; Andrew Beyer picked Cormorant to win in his Washington Post column.
Vasylkivsky created three large panels for the Poltava Zemstvo (Provincial Land Administration) building which was designed by the Ukrainian architect Vasyl Krychevsky: The Chumak Road to Romodan, Election of Pushkar, The Duel of Cossack Holota with a Tatar.
The following year he defended in vain Lodi against the Venetian troops under Malatesta Baglioni, and was protagonist of a famous duel against Baglioni's captain, Ludovico Vistarini.
Storm Rider, a.k.a. The Grand Duel, an Italian spaghetti western directed by Giancarlo Santi
So Ugo to be more courageous and discovers the sword Excalibur to participate in a duel between knights.
The next year Camp Independence was the site of the famous duel between Felix Huston and Albert Sidney Johnston.
She lost an eye in a duel defending the honor of her king Philip II of Spain, (played by Paul Scofield who earned a BAFTA award for his portrayal of the smoldering, sexually frustrated Philip).
The Last Duel, a drama-documentary based on the book and including comments by Jager was broadcast by BBC Four as part of a medieval-themed season on April 24, 2008.
At the battle, Minotaur fought a two hour duel against Aquilon, ultimately forcing her surrender and there is a possibly apocryphal story that Louis was personally thanked by the seriously wounded Nelson, who is reported to have said "Farewell dear Louis, I shall never forget the obligation I am under to you for your brave and generous conduct; and now, whatever may become of me, my mind is at peace".
In the fourth poll, created in January 2009, Duel was voted as the best new format of 2008, while The Kids Are All Right was voted as the worst and Only Connect was voted as "The Golden Fiver" award.
However, both were strongly opposed to each other and a duel almost ensued between the two while campaigning at St. George on July 12.
In 2001, a feature length film, Enemy at the Gates, starring Jude Law as Zaytsev, was based on part of William Craig's book Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad, which includes a "sniper's duel" between Zaytsev and a Wehrmacht sniper school director, Major Erwin König.
Wong went up repeatedly against anti-Chinese activist Denis Kearney, heckling him and at one point challenging him to a duel, and giving Kearney his choice of weapon: chopsticks, Irish potatoes, or Krupp guns.