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  • Tomorrow Lies in Ambush (ISBN 0-330-24443-4) is a collection of science fiction short stories by Bob Shaw, published in 1973. It contains : "Call me Dumbo"...
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    Look up ambush in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An ambush is a surprise attack carried out by people lying in wait in a concealed position. The concealed...
    20 KB (2,305 words) - 09:31, 27 November 2024
  • century, only four states identified "lying in wait" as a "death qualifying act". Murder Capital punishment Ambush "Lying in wait" (PDF). Black's Law Dictionary...
    3 KB (292 words) - 23:50, 1 April 2023
  • The Tongo Tongo ambush or the Niger ambush occurred on 4 October 2017, when armed militants from the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) attacked...
    93 KB (9,388 words) - 21:06, 26 November 2024
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    coloration blends in with the murky waters of the Amazon Rainforest which allows for this species to lie in wait and ambush its prey. Many ambush predators actively...
    30 KB (3,005 words) - 01:56, 4 November 2024
  • He suggests to Huang Zu to retreat and lure Sun Jian to Xianshan (峴山), where Sun Jian is killed by Huang Zu's archers lying in ambush. Lists of people...
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  • The Glogovac attack was an armed confrontation in May 1993, where the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) ambushed Serbian police. This attack is considered the...
    9 KB (1,014 words) - 12:28, 9 October 2024
  • grenade used to defeat armored targets. Although their inherently short range limits the usefulness of grenades, troops can lie in ambush or maneuver under...
    19 KB (2,552 words) - 17:18, 19 January 2024
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    A lie is an assertion that is believed to be false, typically used with the purpose of deceiving or misleading someone. The practice of communicating...
    74 KB (8,678 words) - 20:37, 10 November 2024
  • Sibi (category Articles lacking in-text citations from June 2019)
    was to lie in ambush at some distance, in a dry irrigation channel, running east of Kurak village. The other party, composed of horsemen, was to attack...
    36 KB (4,767 words) - 13:16, 26 October 2024
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    torch for a closer look. Using the torch as the target, the Qi troops lying in ambush attacked. Pang committed suicide after being hit by many enemy arrows...
    9 KB (1,263 words) - 00:55, 5 September 2024
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    Theseus (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    surprised the Pallantides. "Theseus then fell suddenly upon the party lying in ambush, and slew them all. Thereupon the party with Pallas dispersed," Plutarch...
    41 KB (4,988 words) - 21:04, 24 November 2024
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    of Severia in 1379 and was in command of a regiment lying in ambush during the great Battle of Kulikovo in 1380. Bobrok is not mentioned in any sources...
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  • Man Chong (category Political office-holders in Anhui)
    troops ashore just to show off how big his army is." He then ordered 6,000 troops to lie in ambush in Hefei and wait for the Wu soldiers to come ashore. As...
    46 KB (7,716 words) - 07:01, 23 November 2024
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    Battle of Cologne (1945) (category 1940s in Cologne)
    Panther was lying in ambush near the train station; two advancing Sherman tanks were slowed down by a pile of rubble. The Shermans got stuck in a narrow...
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    Phymatinae (redirect from Ambush bug)
    Insects in the subfamily Phymatinae are commonly called ambush bugs after their habit of lying in wait for prey, relying on their superb camouflage. Armed...
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  • killed in Shuja'iyya fell victim to a coordinated ambush that began when Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigade militants fired on a Golani force operating in the...
    5 KB (349 words) - 01:26, 24 October 2024
  • Dragon Inn (category Films shot in Taiwan)
    being escorted to the western border of the Chinese empire, Tsao plots to have the children killed. Tsao's secret police lie in ambush at the desolate...
    12 KB (1,189 words) - 10:03, 21 July 2024
  • Battle of Strasbourg (category 350s in the Roman Empire)
    squadrons of cavalry to lie in ambush on three roads and these successfully intercepted and destroyed the returning barbarian bands. But in Barbatio's sector...
    73 KB (9,978 words) - 03:43, 1 September 2024
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    that a human (Făt-Frumos) is lying in ambush somewhere nearby. A Zmeu is also sometimes pictured as a flame who goes in the room of a young girl or widow...
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