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Though broadly similar in style, many aspects of the execution of the two groups are drastically different, with the Laocoon group of much higher quality and finish. [ 32 ] Some scholars used to think that honorific inscriptions found at Lindos in Rhodes dated Agesander and Athenodoros, recorded as priests, to a period after 42 BC, making the ...
The American feminist poet and author Marge Piercy includes a poem titled "Laocoön is the name of the figure", in her collection Stone, Paper, Knife (1983), relating love lost and beginning. John Steinbeck references Laocoön in his American literary classic East of Eden , referring to a picture of “Laocoön completely wrapped in snakes ...
Pages in category "Legendary creatures of the indigenous peoples of North America" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A 175-kilogram (386 lb) American black bear died in Georgia in 1985 after overdosing on cocaine. The cocaine had been dumped from an airplane piloted by Andrew C. Thornton II, a former narcotics officer turned convicted drug smuggler. [13] It inspired the 2023 film Cocaine Bear. [14] Deer 14 August 1987
A mass grave being dug for frozen bodies from the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre, in which the U.S. Army killed 150 Lakota people, marking the end of the American Indian Wars. During the Indian Wars, the American Army carried out a number of massacres and forced relocations of Indigenous peoples that are sometimes considered genocide. [115]
Bear killed: Black bear struck and killed by car is found with all 4 paws cut off, stolen in California Snowfall in Colorado. The nation's first major snowstorm of the winter season left behind ...
The rodent weighed between 80 and 90 pounds.
They were believed to kill their own people with a blow to the head if they became too ill to be a participating member of their society. [ 2 ] Although thought to be mythical, the reality of Nimerigar tales was called into question in 1932 with the discovery of the San Pedro Mountains mummy , a 14 in (36 cm)-tall mummy (6.5 in (17 cm) seated ...