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From Ancient Greece to the frozen North, rulers have always needed their elite troops – men trained to perfection, skilled with a devastating array of weaponry – men who will track down their leader’s enemies and kill them. All assassination teams faced one big problem: getting…
The true story of the Assassins. Originally a persecuted band of Ismailis, a Shi’ite Muslim sect, they found themselves vastly outnumbered by the Sunnis of medieval Persia. So they developed a special way of fighting back - killing their enemies’ leaders by using stealth, infiltration and their skills with a dagger (image shows an assassin receiving a dagger for his first mission in Persia). They would go on to murder the King of the Crusaders on the eve of his coronation.
How the training of the Spartan 300 is bizarrely similar to that of today’s special forces. Here we see the distinctive Spartan helmet (pictured) protects them from spear thrusts and sword strikes. Within this battled hardened group of of warriors was an elite of the elite- the Krypteia – a secret death squad. The story goes that they set out to kill the invading Persian Emperor.
The specialist hit squads that wreaked havoc against the Roman invaders in Jerusalem. This deadly band of stealthy assassins would eventually be cornered in the mighty hilltop fortress of Masada. What happened next has horrified and fascinated the world ever since. Image shows the ruins at Masada with the Dead Sea in background.
The Germanic Ghost Warriors were one of the first special forces trained to fight specifically at night. They emerged out of the fiercely independent tribes of Germania, the wild lands to the North of the Roman Empire. When a huge Roman Army came to conquer their territory, the Ghost Warriors helped inflict the worst defeat in Roman history.
The Viking Beserkers were the elite shock-troops of Viking warlords. Fuelled by alcohol, religious fervour and possibly hallucinogenic magic mushrooms, they believed they could adopt the spirits of wild animals. One single Viking Beserker, after working himself up into a frenzy, held up an entire Saxon army with just an axe.
A look at the story of the Varangian Guard, the elite bodyguards of the Byzantine Emperor.
A look at the story of what happened when 2 planes ended up on a collision course above Brazil.
A look at the formidable Hawaiian Koa Warriors trained in the art of Loa, Hawaii's own martial arts.
The history of Ninja's, who first were a division of Japan's greatest Shogun.
A look at the group of 47 Ronin - dishonoured Samurais who had lost their status.
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Indeed, in the new series of MEGA "Black Rose" we will see several changes in the case, regarding the book. At the center of our story will be Sister Elizabeth, who has dedicated her life to God. As a child she had contracted meningitis and her parents sent her to Panagia, as a result, when the girl recovered, they urged her to follow the monastic life.After a big earthquake, the monastery shows cracks and huge damages. The abbess asks Sister Elisabeth, who is still a probationary nun, to go to her village outside Ioannina for a while until the damage is repaired. There, Sister Elizabeth will attend the party organized by her step-sister and meet the young man who will steal her heart. He, completely in love with her, will chase her to the monastery. This love will put the nun in a dilemma: Should she follow her heart and fall in love or remain in the choice of monastic life?
The lives of different people and also different worlds are entangled. Of the night and the margin on the one hand, of the day and the legal order on the other. The two worlds will come together to clash to the death. As everyone's secrets are revealed and losses pile up on both sides, a great love will be born from the ashes and people will discover who the world around them really is as well as themselves. Because beneath the cruelty and hypocrisy, the fate of all of us is common.
Two different worlds, two strangers who will come and change what we believe separates but also unites two people. Stratis and Razan will experience a strong love under the most adverse conditions. Will they manage to overcome the wreck of their lives or will they live as protagonists in an absurd thriller? "Glykanisos" is coming to SKAI and its taste will remain indelible.
The new drama series "An August Night", which is a continuation of "The Island" takes us back to the 50s. Spinalonga closes and a feast follows in the village. The healthy meet the newly cured and all together celebrate freedom from fear and disease. But everything freezes with the murder of a woman by her husband, when he learns that his best friend had a lover.
How well do you think you know your closest people? How confident can you be for them? How easy is it to overtake your emotions and see things clearly, with the eyes of truth, but also to manage the consequences? After the success of family stories, Alpha introduces us to "doubts", the new series that is successfully promoted in 16 countries worldwide. Stories full of tension and constant upheavals, police cases sowing doubts about the protagonist who is confronted with the suspicion that a beloved man has committed a crime. The plot moves around the hero's attempt to find out what really happened and to manage the truth, but also the next day - when nothing will be as before in his family.
