abduction
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Thor for thunderstorms, shrieking Sirens to explain shipwrecks, the abduction of Persephone the reason behind the bleakness of winter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Savannah spent the last show before her mother’s abduction promoting the Winter Olympics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
The journalist's eyewitness account of the abduction became a crucial lead in the investigation.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
The BBC has contacted the FBI, which has with Pima County spent months investigating the elder Guthrie's mysterious abduction from her home near Tucson, Arizona.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
The Mexica reacted to the sacrilegious abduction of their leader with the same baffled horror with which Europeans later reacted to Cromwell’s execution of Charles I in 1649.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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