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Dianne Odell (February 13, 1947 [1] – May 28, 2008) was a Tennessee woman who spent most of her life in an iron lung. [2] She contracted bulbospinal polio at age 3 in 1950 and was confined to an iron lung for the rest of her life. Due to a spinal deformity caused by the polio, she was unable to change to a portable breathing device introduced ...
This is a list of aircraft shootdowns, dogfights and other incidents during wars since World War II.An aircraft shootdown occurs when an aircraft is struck by a projectile launched or fired from another aircraft or from the ground (anti-aircraft warfare) which causes the targeted aircraft to lose its ability to continue flying normally, and then subsequently crashing into land or sea, often ...
She and three others, Mark Lee Tompkins, Sheryl Ann Baker, and another man known only by the name "George", were alleged to have used various weapons to commit a torture-murder: a cast-iron frying pan, a knife, and a syringe filled with battery acid. 29 years, 7 months and 17 days
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Boiling to death was employed again in 1542 for a woman who also used poison. [6] [7] It was also used for counterfeiters, swindlers and coin forgers during the Middle Ages. [8] A large cauldron was filled with water, oil, tar, tallow or molten lead. The liquid was then boiled. Sometimes the victim would be placed in the cauldron before it was ...
The first air-to-air victory by a female pilot comes 30 years after Lt. Kara Hultgreen became the first carrier-based female fighter pilot in the Navy, flying the F-14 Tomcat off the USS Abraham ...
A hotel employee gunned down four of his workers at a hotel, then fled the scene to kill a woman after she refused to give up her car. Three others were wounded during the spree shootings. [10] December 5, 1999 Baltimore, Maryland: 5 0 5: Five women were found shot to death in a row house. [11] November 2, 1999 Honolulu, Hawaii: 7 0 7
June Margaret Middleton (4 May 1926 – 30 October 2009) was an Australian polio survivor who spent more than 60 years living in an iron lung for treatment of the disease. [1] In 2006, Guinness World Records recognised her as the person who had spent the longest amount of time living in an iron lung. [1]