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William Henry Bury (25 May 1859 – 24 April 1889) was suspected of being the notorious serial killer "Jack the Ripper".He was hanged for the murder of his wife Ellen in 1889, and was the last person executed in Dundee, Scotland.
The Ripper murders mark an important watershed in the treatment of crime by journalists. [24] [203] Jack the Ripper was not the first serial killer, but his case was the first to create a worldwide media frenzy. [24] [203] The Elementary Education Act 1880 (which had extended upon a previous Act) made school attendance compulsory regardless of ...
Two British musicals, Ripper by Terence Greer and The Jack the Ripper Show and How They Wrote It by Frank Hatherley, were staged in 1973. [27] Jack the Ripper: The Musical (1974), with lyrics and music by Ron Pember, who co-authored the book with Dennis de Marne, [28] influenced Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ...
John of the Cross; John Donne; Alberico Gentili; Marko Gerbec; Ben Jonson; Jan Kochanowski; Luis de León; Christopher Marlowe; Petrarch; Christine de Pizan; Poliziano; François Rabelais; Fernando de Rojas; Lope de Rueda; Pierre de Ronsard; William Shakespeare; Catherine of Siena; Cicco Simonetta; Garcilaso de la Vega; Gil Vicente
First openly gay person elected U.S. Senator, first woman elected in the Wisconsin senate. Elaine Chao, 1953-. Served as Secretary of Labor under George W. Bush, first Asian American woman to ...
Jack the Ripper and black magic: Victorian conspiracy theories, secret societies and the supernatural mystique of the Whitechapel murders. Jefferson, N.C London: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-4547-9. Eddleston, John J. (15 November 2012). Jack The Ripper - An Encyclopedia. Metro Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84358-046-1. OCLC 52940092.
He is famous for the seminal paper on Big Bang nucleosynthesis called the Alpher–Bethe–Gamow paper. [5] Nayef Al-Rodhan: Philosopher, neuroscientist and geostrategist. Author of Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man; Emotional Amoral Egoism and Symbiotic Realism. Philip Warren Anderson: American physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics ...
William Dean Christensen (September 24, 1945 – October 31, 1990), known as The American Jack the Ripper, was a Canadian-American serial killer who killed and mutilated at least four people in Canada and the United States between 1982 and 1983.