After first threatening to kill Hole, Barli instead jumps out of his fifth-floor balcony window, where he is impaled on an outdoor rotary clothes airer stationed in the garden below.
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K.J. Yossman,
Variety,
27 Mar. 2026
The few Alawite religious leaders who dared to remain in Aleppo and resist were captured, impaled on metal spikes, and displayed in public squares.
As Cadeau pecked his way through the blue-and-maize confetti littering the court, Justin did a quick change.
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Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
7 Apr. 2026
Standing right behind the decoy, the bird cautiously sized up George, pecked him on the head, then jumped and used his spurs to knock George to the ground.
At this time, the kernels are tender, fully developed, and produce a milky, sweet liquid when punctured.
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SJ McShane,
Martha Stewart,
3 Apr. 2026
The attack had punctured an air of invulnerability created by the 1967 Six-Day War, in which Israel had swiftly captured the Golan Heights, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, and Gaza from its Arab neighbors.
Ricardo Ortiz was handling the bulls in their enclosures at La Malagueta, a historic bullring in Málaga, when one of the animals gored him, according to Lances de Futuro, the company organizing the bullfight.
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Issy Ronald,
CNN Money,
4 Apr. 2026
By the end of the story, characters have been shot, pierced by arrows, gored by a deer, and nearly burned to death in a barn fire.
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