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One tiger, for example, was responsible for over 400 human deaths. Man-Eaters of Kumaon is the best known of Corbett's books, and contains 10 stories of tracking and shooting man-eaters in the Indian Himalayas during the early years of the twentieth century. The text also contains incidental information on flora, fauna and village life.
Edward James Corbett CIE VD (25 July 1875 – 19 April 1955) was an Anglo-Indian hunter and author. He gained fame through hunting and killing several man-eating tigers and leopards in Northern India, as detailed in his bestselling 1944 memoir Man-Eaters of Kumaon.
On 14 June 2018 a 54-year-old woman named Wa Tiba was eaten by a reticulated python, which had slithered into her garden at her home. [47] A 45-year-old woman farmer in Indonesia, who had been missing since the day before, was found dead inside a 5-metre-long (16 ft) python in June 2024. [48]
On 24 May 2013, Sarah McClay, a 24-year-old woman who had been working at South Lakes Safari Zoo in Cumbria, United Kingdom, was mauled by a tiger during public feeding time and suffered serious injuries to her head and neck. She died later the same day. In July 2014, an 11-year-old boy was attacked by a tiger in a zoo from Paraná, Brazil. His ...
Leopard of Panar : The Leopard of Panar was a male leopard reported as being responsible for at least 400 fatal attacks on humans in the Panar region of the Almora district, situated in Kumaon Northern India in the early 20th century. Jim Corbett heard of the leopard while hunting the Champawat tiger in 1907, and in 1910 he set out to kill it ...
The Mental Condition and Career of Jesus of Nazareth [5] Ernest Brougham Docker: 1920 If Jesus Did Not Die on the Cross [6] Harvey Spencer Lewis: 1929 The Mystical Life of Jesus: Werner Hegemann: 1933 Christ Rescued [7] Sufi M. R. Bengalee 1946 The Tomb of Jesus [8] Khwaja Nazir Ahmad: 1952 Jesus in Heaven on Earth: Robert Graves and Joshua ...
A 15th-century depiction of Jesus crucified between the two thieves. Crucifixion is a method of capital punishment in which the condemned is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross, beam or stake and left to hang until eventual death. [1] [2] It was used as a punishment by the Persians, Carthaginians, and Romans, [1] among others. Crucifixion ...
A verse in the Qur'an saying of Jesus that "they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them" [9] has been interpreted by many Muslims to mean that a different man who only appeared to be Jesus died in his place. Muslim scholars do not agree on the identity of the substitute, but he is often thought to have been one ...