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William Tell (German: Wilhelm Tell, pronounced [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈtɛl] ⓘ; French: Guillaume Tell; Italian: Guglielmo Tell; Romansh: Guglielm Tell) is a legendary folk hero of Switzerland. According to the legend, Tell was an expert mountain climber and marksman with a crossbow who assassinated Albrecht Gessler , a tyrannical reeve of the ...
William Tell Sackett (Tell) – Oldest son of Colburn Sackett ("Ride the Dark Trail" section of "The Sackett Companion"). Fought for the Union in the Civil War. Fought for the Union in the Civil War. A hard, tough, quiet man who wants only to be left alone, it takes very little to anger Tell, and he will fight like a rabid wolf if pushed, as ...
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As Swiss legend goes, William Tell became a medieval folk hero when occupying Austrian militants forced him into a sick game: He was forced to fire an arrow into an apple atop his son’s head to ...
Authorities explained how the 47-year-old man, identified only by his surname Li, pushed his wife into the sea from a ferry. Li had taken out four life insurance policies in her name, making ...
Jill Lonita Coit (née Billiot; born June 11, 1943, or 1944 [5]) is an American convicted murderer.A con artist and serial bigamist who has been married 11 times to nine different men since 1961, [1] Coit was convicted of killing her eighth husband in 1993 and is also suspected of killing her third husband in 1972.
A Pennsylvania man is accused of killing his mother then asking police when he could collect insurance money, news outlets reported. David Michael Lombardo, 43, was charged with criminal homicide ...
Swiss folk hero William Tell shows Gessler the bolt he meant to kill him with.. Albrecht Gessler, also known as Hermann, [1] was a legendary 14th-century Habsburg bailiff (German: Landvogt) at Altdorf, [2] whose brutal rule led to the William Tell rebellion and the eventual independence of the Old Swiss Confederacy.