When "Battleship" arose, Mr. Berg was planning a different Navy film, called "Lone Survivor, " about a deadly real-life SEALs mission.

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Beasley denied involvement in the 2011 attacks and said that the lone survivor was sent to kill him in retaliation for being a police snitch in a motorcycle gang investigation in Akron.

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Two men in the helicopter, including the pilot, were killed, Nursing home workers were able to pull the lone survivor from the wreckage, and he was taken to a hospital, Woodard said.

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The setting itself seemed to capture the quixotic nature of the enterprise, since the historic mansion, once in the heart of a hutong, is now the lone survivor, overshadowed on all sides by skyscrapers.

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Learn more at the Lone Survivor Foundation.

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"Comanche stands for many more things than being the lone survivor on the Cavalry side -- he stands for the relentless march of the European settlers across the great plains and the war against the Indians, " said Leonard Krishtalka, director of the Biodiversity Institute at Kansas University.

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