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  2. Grim Reaper - Wikipedia

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    The Grim Reaper is a popular personification of death in Western culture in the form of a hooded skeletal figure wearing a black robe and carrying a scythe. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Since the 14th century, European art connected each of these various physical features to death, though the name "Grim Reaper" and the artistic popularity of all the features ...

  3. Personifications of death - Wikipedia

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    In more modern stories, a character known as the Grim Reaper (usually depicted as a berobed skeleton wielding a scythe) causes the victim's death by coming to collect that person's soul.

  4. Symbols of death - Wikipedia

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    Black is the color of mourning in many European cultures. Black clothing is typically worn at funerals to show mourning for the death of the person. In East Asia, white is similarly associated with mourning; it represented the purity and perfection of the deceased person's spirit. [7]

  5. Reaper (DC Comics) - Wikipedia

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    After losing his wife to a robber in the streets, he becomes the Reaper, targeting public menaces and murdering them with a scythe. He has a run-in with Green Lantern Alan Scott before traveling to Europe and disappearing. Several decades later, Caspian reassumes the Reaper identity and battles Batman.

  6. Who will Steelers play in NFL playoffs? Scenarios, potential ...

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    Steelers loss (vs. CIN) AND Chargers win (at LV) Los Angeles Chargers The least likely outcome of the three is that Pittsburgh will meet L.A. in the first round if they win the division.

  7. Check Out the Venomous Defense Mechanism of the Male Platypus

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    Male platypuses have sharp spurs on their back legs shaped like a canine tooth. These hollow spurs measure 0.59 to 0.71 inches long and connect to crural glands in the animal’s upper thighs.

  8. Billionaire Frank McCourt's Project Liberty proposes bid for ...

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    (Reuters) - Entrepreneur and former Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt's Project Liberty and its consortium of partners in The People's Bid said on Thursday they proposed to make a formal bid ...

  9. Chamber of Reflection - Wikipedia

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    Agricultural instrument and symbol of Death, sometimes drawn behind the hourglass in the chamber of reflection, the scythe intersects with the parable of the harvest and evokes the grain that dies to give life. In ancient mythology, it is Cronos who is represented holding the scythe and the hourglass. In the Middle Ages, during the ravages of ...