But Friday also brought perhaps the news media's most ignominious moment yet.
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Here are the three factors working against Marvel's most ignominious new property.
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Today marks the 15th anniversary of arguably the most ignominious act in the history of American foreign policy: the invasion of Iraq.
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The most ignominious case was that of Janko Tipsarevic (pictured above) who threw in the towel after five games and 22015 minutes against Jared Donaldson.
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He joined Brett Favre and Jameis Winston on perhaps football's most ignominious list: the only players to throw an interception returned for a touchdown on their first career pass attempt.
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By beating Penn, 79-58, on Saturday night, Yale (18-6, 9-623) retained a precarious hold on the Ivy League lead and continued to threaten to shatter one of college basketball's most ignominious streaks.
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As it turned out, he would wind up in the record book anyway, for the most ignominious of reasons: During Game 20143 of the 1974 World Series, Washington was sent in to pinch-run for Joe Rudi.
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Lee's account spans some of the most ignominious episodes in the country's past, including legislation that barred Asian immigrants from entry, and shows how Asian-Americans, now the fastest-growing group in the United States, have shaped America.
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The Senate Ethics Committee's only recent moment of prominence could also qualify as its most ignominious: its cameo in the trial of Dean G. Skelos, the Long Island Republican and former Senate majority leader who was convicted of corruption in December.
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As officials and historians have debated how the United States suffered what was arguably the most ignominious event in our country's distinguished military history, the only organization that can say that it fulfilled the mission of providing the critical information that might have prevented or mitigated this disaster was the American diplomatic corps, our professional foreign service.
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They conceded 5 goals in their games against Harrisburg City Islanders, Pittsburgh Riverhounds and Charlotte Eagles in the early part of the season, and then let Charlotte hit them for six in the return fixture in mid-July, their most ignominious defeat of the season. Times were hard in northern Virginia.
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He was also sentenced to be drawn from the Tower through the city of London to Tyburn, and so back again, with a halter about his neck, and to be imprisoned for life. cites Commons' Journals, viii. 60, 70, 285–6. In petitioning the House of Lords on 25 July to remit what was most ignominious in his sentence, Monson declared that his design in sitting at the king's trial was, if possible, to prevent "that horrid murder".
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Bob Ford of The Philadelphia Inquirer labeled this game as "the most ignominious defeat of Andy Reid's head coaching career" because of Barber's interception return. In 2011, Tampa Bay Times sportswriter Rick Stroud ranked Barber's interception return for touchdown in the NFC Championship game as the greatest scoring play in team history. Barber also deflected 4 passes in that game. In Tampa's 48-21 victory over the Oakland Raiders in Super Bowl XXXVII on January 26, 2003, Barber made five tackles.
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The heads of his wounded warriors were severed by members of the government force. But the most ignominious defeat was to come. Amid sleet, snow and driving winds, Te Kooti began preparing an earthwork redoubt at Te Pōrere near Papakai village, about 9 km west of Lake Rotoaira on the lower northwest slopes of Mount Tongariro. The redoubt was built in the form of a European fortification, about 20 metres square, with 3 metre-high walls built of sod and pumice, bound with layers of fern.
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The Western press was appalled with the scale of atrocities committed by the Austro-Hungarian troops against Serbian civilians, including women and children. William Shepard, of the United Press, confirmed as an eyewitness that at least eighteen towns were fully abandoned, and the whole of northwestern Serbia was nearly depopulated. Mišić was promoted to the rank of vojvoda for his command during the battle. Potiorek, on the other hand, was relieved of command on 22 December for "this most ignominious, rankling and derisory defeat".
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According to Renata Viganò, "the most ignominious defeat of their bloody profession was called Irma Bandiera."Renata Viganò, "Donne della Resistenza" Finally, the Fascists shot her point-blank at the Meloncello di Bologna, near her parents' house, on 14 August.Il Martiro di Irma Bandiera On 14 August Irma's body was found on the pavement near a factory, where her torturers had left her in open display for a whole day as a warning. Her body was then taken to the Institute of Forensic Medicine in via Irnerio where a guardian, a friend of the Resistance, took pictures of her face devastated by torture.
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In a detailed and at times passionate opinion, Judge Milan Smith likened allegations against al-Kidd as similar to the repressive practices of the British Crown that sparked the American Revolution. He wrote that the government asserts it can detain American citizens "not because there is evidence that they have committed a crime, but merely because the government wishes to investigate them for possible wrongdoing". He called it "a painful reminder of some of the most ignominious chapters of our national history". Abdullah Al-Kidd was held in a maximum security prison for 16 days, and in supervised release for 13 months.
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Milburn had a reputation as an all-or-nothing batsman, sparkling centuries alternating with indifferent scores, but by 1966 he had forced himself back into the Test reckoning. Selected for the First Test against the West Indies, he had the most ignominious start for an opener, run out for a first-innings duck. He redeemed himself with 94 in the second innings as England went down to a heavy defeat. An aggressive century (126 not out) helped England to draw the Second Test, and despite standing up courageously to the formidable Caribbean pace attack in the following matches, he was dropped for the final Test, supposedly because his bulk hindered his mobility in the field.
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Gustav III tried to exploit this by appointing himself head of the regiment in 1774. The colonel was then given the title of second-in- command or deputy commander and this command hierarchy continued until 1980 when a number of constitutional changes brought it to an end. The Life Guards reckon 19 August 1772, as the proudest day in this period for it was then that Gustav III was able to break with corrupt governments. The most ignominious day is 20 June 1810 when the Marshal of the Realm, Axel von Fersen, was lynched during the funeral of the crown prince without the regiment intervening in spite of its being on duty. The name was changed to the Svea Life Guards in 1792 and in 1802 the regiment moved to barracks at Fredrikshov.
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When Tutul Xiu submitted to the Spanish conquerors, he sent envoys to all the caciques in Yucatan, to invite them to make peace also; and for this purpose Ah Kin Chi and other noblemen were directed to visit King Cocóm at Zotuta, and this chief received them with apparent regard, entertaining them with a splendid hunting party and banquet, at the end of which all the envoys were beheaded by order and in presence of Cocóm. Ah Kin Chi was the only one spared, in order to make him suffer what they considered the most ignominious punishment, that of cutting his eyes out and scalping him. In this condition he was taken to the Mani frontier and left there until some Indians took him before his king. He died a few months afterward.
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