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  2. Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners - Wikipedia

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    The painting has two parts, and it presents in the foreground Queen Cleopatra seated on a bench on which have been placed fabrics and a tiger skin whose head has been preserved. Seen in profile, she recalls Ancient Egyptian paintings. Cleopatra wears the Néret crown which was the regalia of Egyptian queens since the 4th dynasty.

  3. Gameel Al-Batouti - Wikipedia

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    Al-Batouti was married and had five children. The youngest, a daughter who was 10 at the time of the crash, suffered from lupus, and was undergoing medical treatment in Los Angeles. Efforts had been made at EgyptAir, both at a company level and at an employee level, to provide assistance to help defray the medical expenses. [3]

  4. Death of Cleopatra - Wikipedia

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    Cleopatra VII, the last ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt, died on either 10 or 12 August, 30 BC, in Alexandria, when she was 39 years old.According to popular belief, Cleopatra killed herself by allowing an asp (Egyptian cobra) to bite her, but according to the Roman-era writers Strabo, Plutarch, and Cassius Dio, Cleopatra poisoned herself using either a toxic ointment or by introducing the poison ...

  5. Today in History: Cleopatra commits suicide - AOL

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    Cleopatra, born in 69 B.C., was crowned the queen of Egypt at just 18-years-old upon the death of her father, Ptolemy XII. Together, her and her 10-year-old brother, Ptolemy XIII ruled Egypt.

  6. List of incidents of cannibalism - Wikipedia

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    From the 16th century on, an unusual form of medical cannibalism became widespread in several European countries, for which thousands of Egyptian mummies were ground up and sold as medicine. Powdered human mummy – called mummia – was thought to stop internal bleeding and to have other healing properties. The practice developed into a ...

  7. Former Playboy playmate jumps to her death with 7-year-old son

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    A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...

  8. History of suicide - Wikipedia

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    Bähr, Andreas. "Between “Self-Murder” and “Suicide”: The Modern Etymology of Self-Killing." Journal of Social History 46.3 (2013): 620-632. Argues Suicide” is a modern concept—emerging in English in 1650s and in French and Spanish in late 18th century. Crocker, Lester G. "The discussion of suicide in the eighteenth century."

  9. Ancient Egyptian medicine - Wikipedia

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    The Head of Physicians, supervisor of the medical schools – the 'Houses of life'; the prince, the royal chancellor, the unique companion, the prophet of the one who lives with them, the chief physician, the one truly known and loved by the king, the scribe, the inspector of the scribes of the dedet-court, the first among the great scribes of ...