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Look up: thug

  1. Thug
    The thugs were a Hindu sect who strangled their victims as sacrifices to Kali.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  2. Thug
    Not your normal street gangster, but close to it. Thugs are invasive plants. We enjoy their attractiveness but they will take over a garden. They are growing in the right conditions, but ironically thugs can make a statement when they are perennials in the right garden.
    Found on http://www.emilycompost.com/garden_gloss

  3. thug
    Originally a member of a Hindu sect who strangled travellers as sacrifices to Kali, the goddess of destruction. The sect was suppressed in about 1830. ...
    Found on http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/

  4. Thug
    Thug noun [ Hind. thag a deceiver, robber.] One of an association of robbers and murderers in India who practiced murder by stealthy approaches, and from religious motives. They have been nearly exterminated by the British government.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/52

  5. Thug
    Thug noun An assassin; a ruffian; a rough. ' Thugs and midnight rounders.' The Century.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/52

  6. Thug
    `Thug` may refer to: *`Thug`, , a member of the defunct Indian cult Thuggee *Thug, slang for a gangster or a petty thief *Thug, a gardening term meaning an over-vigorous plant that spreads excessively *Thug, a wooden bat used in the naturists' game miniten *Thug, a type of allomancer in the `Mistborn` series of books by Brandon Sanderson *THUG, an abbreviation for `Tony Hawk's Underground` video game In `music`: *ThugLine Records, a record label...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thug

  7. Thug
    • (n.) An assassin; a ruffian; a rough. • (n.) One of an association of robbers and murderers in India who practiced murder by stealthy approaches, and from religious motives. They have been nearly exterminated by the British government.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  8. thug
    member of a well-organized confederacy of professional assassins who traveled in gangs throughout India for several hundred years. (The earliest ... [3 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/t/46


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21 November 2009

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On 21st November 1974 the Provisional IRA plants bombs in two Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town. Twenty-one people die and 182 are injured. A few minutes before the explosions a warning had been telephoned to the local newspaper, the Birmingham Post and Mail, but it was far too late. The first Birmingham bomb, at the Mulberry Bush pub in the basement of the Rotunda, a 20-storey office and retail complex and it exploded six minutes after the telephone warning. There was not enough time for police to clear the area. Earlier that year nine soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded on a coach on the M62 near Bradford, while two bombs in Guildford killed four soldiers and injured scores of other people. read more

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