Alexander Treisman traveled to within four miles of Biden's home in Delaware in May, around the time the suspect bought an AR-15 rifle, investigators said.
Baba Vanga, knows as the Nostradamus of the Balkans, successfully predicted the 9/11 terror attack and Brexit and experts have worked out what she claimed will happen next year
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The shooting was the first major assassination attempt on a European political leader for more than 20 years, and has drawn international condemnation.
"Julius Caesar’s assassination was the last time everyone in a group project did their part."
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Thinktank chair Ben Harris-Quinney claims Daily Politics show colluded in attempted ‘character assassination’ by party
Some assassinations have become seared on our collective consciousness: the killing of JFK in Dallas in 1963, or the murder of Martin Luther King soon afterwards. And anyone with even the most cursory interest in history will know all about the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln or, going even further…
On the 46th anniversary of Robert Kennedy's assassination, LIFE.com presents a series of photos from that night by the great Bill Eppridge.
It’s not just Brexitland and Remainia Jeremy Corbyn has to unite, but the generations and classes within the party, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
Was it really a lunch-hour coincidence that led to the death of the Archduke in Sarajevo in 1914—and, by extension, World War I?
On this day in 455, Valentinian III was assassinated. He was 35-years-old at the time of his death. Valentinian was the only son of Galla Placidia. Born in Ravenna, Italy, he was raised within a well-connected family. Both his mother and father were related to various noblemen and women. The family…
I. The Stress of Imperialism A. The Failure of the Republic--the success of the empire project unleashed factors that lead to the end of the Republic. Most of the wealth generated by the near constant state of warfare and conquest flowed to the wealthiest, while impoverishing small farmers in the countryside. While the male head of household was off fighting, his family often became impoverished, being forced to sell their land and move to the city. 1. Social dislocation--the impoverished masses were eventually recruited to serve in the Roman army--but their dependence upon the largess of their generals meant that their primary loyalty was to them, rather than to Rome, and the army was used be a series of individuals to seize control of the government. During the early years of the Roman Republic, wars were relatively brief, and the farmers who made up most of the soldiers were away from their homes for relatively short times. As warfare grew more constant, and lasted longer, farmers were away from their farms and families for longer periods of time--and forced to leave their wives to run these farms in addition to other duties. 2. The Poor--for a variety of reasons--the fact that the rich were obtaining ever more land, and a sudden increase in birth rates, land became more scarce and expensive. As a result, more people moved into Rome; perhaps as many as 500,000 people lived in the city of Rome by 200 B.C.E. This was more people than the city could provided jobs for, leaving some to beg in the streets, and forcing many women into prostitution. The landless poor in Rome became an explosive swing-element in Roman politics, willing to follow those leaders who promised them a better economic situation. By the late second century B.C.E., Rome needed to import flour to feed its population, providing the poor with free bread--which became one of the most divisive issues in late republican politics 3. The Rich--while the landless poor struggled, imperialism brought Rome's economic elites ample political and financial rewards. At first, this wealth was plowed into public works that benefited the general population--temples, forums, coliseums. With increased economic disparity, however, the rich also began to concentrate more on ways the could display their wealth privately, by building ever more opulent homes, and throwing ever more lavish parties to impress their other rich friends and win themselves greater esteem--a rejection of the way that Romans had previously gained more esteem by their simple lives. II. Civil War and the Destruction of the Republic A. The Gracchus Brothers and Violence in Politics, 133-121 B.C.E.--though born to a rich patrician family, the Gracchus brothers rose to political prominence pressing their rich peers to make concessions to strengthen the state. 1. Tiberius Gracchus--elected tribune in 133 B.C.E. and immediately ignored the Senate's advice and convinced the Plebeian assembly to pass laws to redistribute land to landless Romans. The next year, Tiberius made the unprecedented announcement that he would stand for election as tribune for a second year, but his cousin led a group of Senators he clubbed Tiberius and many of his followers to death. 2. Gaius Gracchus--elected tribune in 123 B.C.E.--and, contrary to tradition, again the following year--he also pushed for reform measures that outraged the elite: farming reforms, subsidized prices for grain, public works projects to employ the poor, and colonies abroad with farms for the landless. a. Perhaps Gaius' most important reform were measures that granted many Italians Roman citizenship, and the creation of courts with equite jurors to try Senators for wrongdoing--which meant that the equites would be social equals to the patrician Senators. The Senate move to block this legislation, and Gaius assembled an armed group the threaten them. The Senate then advised consuls to take all measures necessary to protect the Republic, meaning themselves, and the consuls set off to kill Gaius. He cheated them of that prize, committing suicide by slave B. Marius and the Origins of Client Armies, 107-100 B.C.E.--The republic needed innovative military commanders to combat slave revolts and foreign invasions in the late second and early first centuries B.C.E. The "new men" who rose to meet this challenge relied upon sheer ability--and often political violence--to force his way to fame, fortune, and the means of gaining those, the consulship. 1. Gaius Marius (c. 157-86 B.C.E.)--Marius came from the equites class, and set the pattern fro this new kind of leader. Previously, he would have had no chance to become consular, but his military prowess as a young officer, and continued success in the military, led to his being voted a triumph, Rome's ultimate military honor--and he was able to use the support of the common people of Rome to move up politically a. Opening the ranks of the army--previous to Marius, only men of some property could become members of the Roman Legion. Marius opened the ranks to the propertyless proletarians, which gave them the opportunity to gain wealth and property. This also meant that proletarian troops felt a great deal of goodwill toward their commander, and began behaving like clients following their commander as a patron. Marius was the first to promote his own career this way, but he would be followed by men more ruthless than he was. 2. Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138-78 B.C.E.)--took advantage of uprising by non-Romans in Italy and Asia Minor to use his client army to seize Rome's highest offices and force the Senate to support his policies. His career revealed that politics in the late Republic prized individual advancement over peace and the good of the community. a. The Social War--non-Romans had no vote in decisions concerning their own interests, and chose to ally together to fight Rome. Although the allies lost the battle--and 300,000 men--they won the war, because Rome granted citizenship to everyone living south of the Po river (the traditional northern boundary of Italy) b. Plunder abroad and Violence at home--Mithradates IV took advantage of discontent with the exorbitant tax rates the Romans were collecting in Asia Minor to convince people there to kill all the Italians--tens of thousands of them--in a single day. In retaliation, the Senate voted to send a military expedition to punish this act. The riches promised by the ability to plunder much of Asia Minor made this a plum assignment, which was given to a member of a patrician family, Sulla. Marius attempted to seize the assignment through a plebiscite; Sulla responded by marching his army on Rome, he allowed his men to rampage through the city, killed many of his enemies, and left it in a state of civil war while he marched off to Asia Minor to fight and plunder there. Civil war raged in Rome for two years, while Sulla enriched himself in Asia Minor; he returned to Rome, put down the civil war, then attempted to eliminate the rest of his enemies by proscription. 3. Gnaeus Pompey--rose to prominence when he was able to parlay the mop-up operation against the slave uprising led by Spartacus into greater fame by portraying it as the decisive battle. He demanded and received a consulship even though the had none of the qualifications. He led a successful operations against Mithradates, and a spectacular one against pirates in the Mediterranean. In 64 B.C.E., Rome annexed, and Pompey ended the Seleucid kingdom and brought the eastern Mediterranean under Roman control 4. First Triumvirate--the Senate attempted to block Pompey, who they viewed as being too powerful. Pompey therefore turned to his most powerful political rivals, Crassus and Julius Caesar, and formed the First Triumvirate. Pompey controlled much of Italy, Crassus Asia Minor, and Caesar the area in present-day southern France then known as Gaul. To cement their political relationship, Caesar gave his daughter Julia to be Pompey's wife (Pompey had divorced his wife, who rumor had it had been seduced by Caesar). 5. Civil War--with Julia's death in childbirth in 54 B.C.E., the fragile peace between Caesar and Pompey broke down, and armed gangs backing the two men fought each other in the streets of Rome; the violence grew so bad that elections could not be held. When the Senate demanded that Caesar surrender his command, he crossed the Rubicon with his army to invade Rome. Caesar was wildly popular with much of the citizenry in Italy, who expected him to follow his usual practice of handouts for the impoverished. Pompey and Caesar's other enemies fled Rome for Greece in response. Caesar and this troops then defeated the army under Pompey, who then fled to Egypt, where he was murdered by the counselors of the teenaged Ptolemy XIII. Caesar next invaded Egypt, winning a difficult campaign there when he restored his lover Cleopatra VII to the throne. 6. Caesar's Dictatorship and Murder--Caesar apparently concluded that only one man--him--could end the bloodshed that Rome had fallen into. He declared himself "dictator" (a position that was proclaimed by the Senate during times of crisis--although he essentially ruled as a king. His policies were meant to improve the financial situation and reward his supporters; he offered them a moderate cancellation of debts, a cap on the number of people eligible for free subsidized grain, a large program of public works, citizenship for more non-Romand, and plans to rebuild Corinth and Carthage as commercial centers. This angered the optimates, who viewed him as a traitor, and some senators, led by Caesar's former close friend Marcus Junius Brutus, stabbed him to death in the Senate.
It's a time in history everyone remembers where they were upon hearing "The President has been shot." Reminisce w/ Photos, newspapers, polls & lots of links. Do you remember where were you that day?
Exclusive: Author makes spirited response to Mail on Sunday after corporation decides to air The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher on Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime
"Julius Caesar’s assassination was the last time everyone in a group project did their part."
Oversteegen and two other young women used their unassuming charms to ensnare Nazi collaborators
Jeremy Corbyn on the other hand has never wielded the levers of power in government, and has never done more than put forward ideas
Was the man whose assassination began World War I riding in a car destined to bring death to a series of owners?
On July 20, 1944, a bomb exploded during a meeting between senior German military officers and Adolf Hitler in a conference room at Wolf’s Lair, a high-security site near Rastenburg, in what was then East Prussia. It was the most famous of the attempts and plots to kill Adolf Hitler.…
Did the U.S. kill the man who wanted to take the stress out of sex and use orgasms to heal the world?
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Guinea's President Alpha Conde was kind enough to answer my questions while attending the World Economic Forum's annual gathering at Davos, Switzerland. Conde was the first freely elected President in the country's history after surviving, imprisonment, exile and at least one documented assassination attempt. He describes his journey, vision, challenges, [...]
The immediate trigger that led to the start of the Great War (or First World War as it was subsequently known) was, relatively, innocuous enough - another assassination in the volatile Balkans. However what followed quickly resolved itself into a direct causal sequence of mobilisations & declarations of war by all the major European countries in turn - like a line of toppling dominoes.
"Julius Caesar’s assassination was the last time everyone in a group project did their part."
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (28 August 1592 – 23 August 1628) (surname pronounced /ˈvɪlərz/ "villers")[1] was the favourite, claimed by some to be the lover, of King James I of England[2] Despite a very patchy political and military record he remained at the height of royal favour for the first two years of the reign of Charles I, until he was assassinated. He was one of the most rewarded royal courtiers in all history. He was born in Brooksby, Leicestershire, in August 1592, the son of the minor gentleman Sir George Villiers (1550-1604). His mother, Mary (1570 - 1632), daughter of Anthony Beaumont of Glenfield, Leicestershire, who was left a widow early, educated him for a courtier's life, sending him to France with Sir John Eliot. Villiers took very well to the training; he could dance well, fence well, and speak a little French. In August 1614, Villiers, reputedly "the handsomest-bodied man in all of England," was brought before the king, in the hope that the king would take a fancy to him, diminishing the power at court of then-favourite Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset. Following Villiers' introduction to James during the king's progress of that year, the king developed a strong affection for Villiers, calling him his 'sweet child and wife'; the personal relationships of James are a much debated topic, with Villiers making the last of a succession of favourites on whom James lavished affection and rewards. The extent to which there was a sexual element, or a physical sexual relationship, involved in these cases remains controversial. Villiers reciprocated the king's love and wrote to James: "I naturally so love your person, and adore all your other parts, which are more than ever one man had" and "I desire only to live in the world for your sake". Villiers gained support from those opposed to the current favourite, Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset. Under the king's patronage he prospered greatly. Villiers was knighted in 1615 as a Gentleman of the Bedchamber, and was rapidly advanced through the peerage: he was created Baron Whaddon and Viscount Villiers in 1616, Earl of Buckingham in 1617, Marquess of Buckingham in 1618 and finally Earl of Coventry and Duke of Buckingham in 1623. After the reductions in the peerage that had taken place during the Tudor period, Buckingham was left as the highest-ranking subject outside the Royal Family.[3] In the 1620s, Villiers acquired York House, Strand, which, apart from an interlude during the English Civil War, remained in the family until George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham sold it to developers for £30,000 in 1672. He made it a condition of the sale that his name and title be commemorated by George Street, Villiers Street, Duke Street, Of Alley, and Buckingham Street, some of which have survived into the twenty-first century. Buckingham married the daughter of the 6th Earl of Rutland, Lady Katherine Manners, later suo jure Baroness de Ros, on 16 May 1620 despite the objections of her father. Buckingham was happy to grant valuable royal monopolies to her family. In 1623, Buckingham accompanied Charles I, then Prince of Wales, to Spain for marriage negotiations regarding the Infanta Maria. The negotiations had long been stuck, but it is believed that Buckingham's crassness was key to the total collapse of agreement; the Spanish ambassador asked Parliament to have Buckingham executed for his behaviour in Madrid; but Buckingham gained popularity by calling for war with Spain on his return. He headed further marriage negotiations, but when, in 1624, the betrothal to Henrietta Maria of France was announced, the choice of a Catholic was widely condemned. Buckingham's popularity suffered further when he was blamed for the failure of the military expedition under the command of Ernst von Mansfeld, a famous German mercenary general, sent to the continent to recover the Palatinate (1625), which had belonged to Frederick V, Elector Palatine, son-in-law of King James I of England. However, when the Duke of York became King Charles I, Buckingham was the only man to maintain his position from the court of James. Buckingham led an expedition to repeat the actions of Sir Francis Drake by seizing the main Spanish port at Cádiz and burning the fleet in its harbour. Though his plan was tactically sound, landing further up the coast and marching the militia army on the city, the troops were ill-equipped, ill-disciplined and ill-trained. Coming upon a warehouse filled with wine, they simply got drunk, and the attack was called off. The English army briefly occupied a small port further down the coast before reboarding its ships. This was followed by Buckingham leading the Army and the Navy to sea to intercept an anticipated Spanish silver fleet from Mexico and Spanish Latin America. However, the Spanish were forewarned by their intelligence and easily avoided the planned ambush. With supplies running out and men sick and dying from starvation and disease, the fleet limped home in embarrassment. Buckingham then negotiated with the French regent, Cardinal Richelieu, for English ships to aid Richelieu in his fight against the French Protestants (Huguenots), in return for French aid against the Spanish occupying the Palatinate. Seven English warships participated in operations against La Rochelle and in the Siege of Saint-Martin-de-Ré (1625),[4] but Parliament was disgusted and horrified at the thought of English Protestants fighting French Protestants. The plan only fuelled their fears of crypto-Catholicism at court. Buckingham himself, believing that the failure of his enterprise was the result of treachery by Richelieu, formulated an alliance among the churchman's many enemies, a policy that included support for the very Huguenots whom he had recently attacked. In 1627, Buckingham led an attempt to aid his new Huguenot allies besieged at La Rochelle in France, by leading the Siege of Saint-Martin-de-Ré (1627). He lost more than 4,000 of a force of 7,000 men. While organizing a second campaign, he was stabbed and killed at Portsmouth on August 23, 1628 by John Felton, an army officer who had been wounded in the earlier military adventure. Felton believed he had been passed over for promotion by Buckingham.[5] Felton was hanged in November and Buckingham was buried in Westminster Abbey. Buckingham's tomb bears a Latin inscription translated as: "The Enigma of the World."
A DAUGHTER who callously orchestrated a murder-for-hire plot to assassinate her parents is an enigma who slowly descended into madness under the weight of her own lies, an ex-reporter who covered h…
