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  2. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Cryptic crosswords often use abbreviations to clue individual letters or short fragments of the overall solution. These include: Any conventional abbreviations found in a standard dictionary, such as:

  3. Drowning - Wikipedia

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    Drowning is a type of suffocation induced by the submersion of the mouth and nose in a liquid. Submersion injury refers to both drowning and near-miss incident. Most instances of fatal drowning occur alone or in situations where others present are either unaware of the victim's situation or unable to offer assistance.

  4. List of English-language expressions related to death

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    To die Neutral Usually refers to the humane killing of an animal Die in a hole To die Slang Usually used when annoyed at someone Die with one's boots on To die while able, or during activity, as opposed to in infirmity or while asleep. Euphemistic: Old West usage: To die in a gunfight, as with the film They Died with Their Boots On. Also ...

  5. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...

  6. List of drowning victims - Wikipedia

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    He may have died from a heart attack rather than by drowning. [21] Michel Tamarati (born 1858), a Georgian Catholic priest and historian, died while trying to rescue a drowning man in a stormy sea near Santa Marinella, Italy, on September 16, 1911. [22] John Jacob Astor IV (born 1864) drowned in the Titanic disaster in 1912. [23]

  7. Drownings at Nantes - Wikipedia

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    The precise number of victims is not known. According to Roger Dupuy, there were between 7 and 11 drowning executions, with 300 to 400 victims each time. [7] According to Jacques Hussenet, 1,800 to 4,800 people drowned on the orders of Carrier, and perhaps 2,000 others drowned on the orders by other Republican revolutionaries in Nantes. [8]

  8. French bulldog died in scorching delivery truck after it was ...

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    A former FedEx driver in North Carolina is accused of stealing a French bulldog which then died from suspected heat-related issues in the suspect’s scorching delivery truck, authorities said.

  9. L'Inconnue de la Seine - Wikipedia

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    It has been questioned whether the expression of the face could belong to a drowned person. [ 5 ] According to the draughtsman Georges Villa , who received this information from his master, the painter Jules Joseph Lefebvre , the impression was taken from the face of a young model who died of tuberculosis around 1875, but no trace of the ...