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  2. Call for the Dead - Wikipedia

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    A Murder of Quality. Call for the Dead is John le Carré 's first novel, published in 1961. It introduces George Smiley, the most famous of le Carré's recurring characters, in a story about East German spies inside Great Britain. [ 1] It also introduces a fictional version of British Intelligence, called "the Circus" because of its location in ...

  3. List of people who survived assassination attempts - Wikipedia

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    Dieter Kaufmann 1990 25 October Byron Barrera [52] Guatemalan journalist Guatemala City Guatemala: Members of the military implicated 1992 5 December Jiří Svoboda [53] Leader of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia: Prague Czechoslovakia: Unknown 1993 2 July Aziz Nesin [54] Turkish translator of "The Satanic Verses" Sivas Turkey

  4. List of pen names - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...

  5. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - Wikipedia

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    The Looking-Glass War. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a 1963 Cold War spy novel by the British author John le Carré. It depicts Alec Leamas, a British agent, being sent to East Germany as a faux defector to sow disinformation about a powerful East German intelligence officer. It serves as a sequel to le Carré's previous novels Call for ...

  6. List of Jurassic Park characters - Wikipedia

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    Voiced by: Greg Chun ( Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous) Dr. Henry Wu is a character in the first novel and film, and returns throughout the Jurassic World trilogy. He is initially the chief geneticist at Jurassic Park and head of the team that created the dinosaurs. In the novel, he is killed by a Velociraptor.

  7. A Legacy of Spies - Wikipedia

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    A Legacy of Spies is both a prequel and sequel to John le Carré's The Spy Who Came In from the Cold.In that book, MI6 agent Alec Leamas, motivated by the death of his operative Karl Riemeck in East Berlin, agrees to undertake one final mission to get revenge on the man he believes to be Riemeck's murderer, a high-ranking member of the Stasi named Hans-Dieter Mundt.

  8. List of diminutives by language - Wikipedia

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    In Czech diminutives are formed by suffixes, as in other Slavic languages. Common endings include - ka, -ko, -ek, -ík, -inka, -enka, -ečka, -ička, -ul-, -unka, -íček, -ínek etc. The choice of suffix may depend on the noun's gender as well as the degree of smallness/affection that the speaker wishes to convey.

  9. List of footballers with the most goals in a single game

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    The list only includes players who have scored the most multiple goals in first class or fully professional matches for country or club. The current world record for an international is held by Archie Thompson , who scored 13 goals against American Samoa in Australia's 31–0 victory during the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification.