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== [[Real Life]] ==
* The most (in)famous occurence of this: the assassination of [[Gaius Julius Caesar]] (the famous one) inside the Senate (actually Pompey's Theater, where the Senate was temporarily meeting) on March 15, 44 BC. The reason the conspirators chose to kill him there is that, by custom, only senators were allowed to enter the chamber, so Caesar couldn't bring bodyguards.
* According to tales St. Nicholas and the dissident cleric Arrius attended the historical Council of Nicaea (the subject was rather wonky theological issues). In the process Nicholas slapped Arrius, and basically Emperor Constantine grabbed him and threw him in the cooler for a time for disturbing the peace.
**It must be noted that there are spoilsports who say that Nicholas may not have even been at Nicaea. But that is to good a story to leave out. Come on, being slugged by [[Santa Claus]]?
* South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd was stabbed to death in Parliament in 1966
* Happened in the Russian Duma in 2005
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