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Lord Macduff, the Thane of Fife, is a character and the heroic main protagonist in William Shakespeare's Macbeth (c.1603–1607) that is loosely based on history. Macduff, a legendary hero, plays a pivotal role in the play: he suspects Macbeth of regicide and eventually kills Macbeth in the final act.
Location of Real County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Real County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Real County, Texas. There is one property listed on the National Register in the county.
A well-known controversy in historiography is the 1793 Execution of Louis XVI: Legitimists might say it was a "regicide" of the legitimate "King Louis XVI" by "the rabble", but French Revolutionaries could have regarded it as the "lawful execution" of "citizen Louis Capet" after a "fair trial" that had found him guilty. [1]
He is the father of two youthful sons (Malcolm and Donalbain), and the victim of a well-plotted regicide in a power grab by his trusted captain Macbeth. The origin of the character lies in a narrative of the historical Donnchad mac Crinain , King of Scots , in Raphael Holinshed 's 1587 The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland , a ...
Regicide is the purposeful killing of a monarch or sovereign of a polity and is often associated with the usurpation of power. A regicide can also be the person responsible for the killing. The word comes from the Latin roots of regis and cida (cidium), meaning "of monarch" and "killer" respectively.
The Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC) is the state agency that governs real estate practices in the state of Texas. The agency is headquartered at 1700 North Congress in Austin. [1] TREC is composed of nine members appointed by the Governor with the concurrence of the Texas Senate. The members are appointed for six-year terms, with the terms ...
McDuff received a death sentence in Texas' electric chair; Green received a 25-year sentence and was released in 1979. [2] McDuff's death sentence was commuted to a life sentence, and he hired a lawyer, who amassed a dossier of various evidence that claimed to show that Green was the real killer. Some members of the parole board were impressed ...
Cheapside is a ghost town in Gonzales County, Texas, United States. It is located 21 mi (34 km) south of Gonzales. [1] Once a thriving community and commercial center for cotton, only a church and the crumbling remnants of the former settlement remain.