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His death played a significant role in the decline of jousting as a sport, particularly in France. [89] Amy Robsart: 8 September 1560: The 28-year-old wife of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester was found dead by a staircase with two wounds on her head and a broken neck. Theories suggest she threw herself down the stairs.
A powerful southerly change in Melbourne, Australia, resulted in the death of 10 asthmatic people who died from respiratory failure. [170] This was due to a stark 60-kilometre-per-hour (37 mph) wind that distributed ryegrass pollen into the moist air, rupturing them into very fine specks small enough to enter people's lungs. [171] Kyle Thomson
Due to the proximity of the World Trade Center, and her medical training, her family believes she perished trying to help victims of the next day's terrorist attack. A court has agreed, and she is officially considered to have died that way. The ruling was not unanimous, and no proof of her death has ever been found. [152] 11 September 2001
Nov. 8—Over 30 years after the Lindhurst High School school shooting, 52-year-old death row inmate Eric Houston is filing another appeal, claiming that a developmental disability should overturn ...
Diana: Death of a Goddess is a book about the death of Diana, Princess of Wales by psychiatrist and documentarian David Cohen. It was published in 2004 by Century, an imprint of Random House . A continuation of Cohen's 2003 documentary film on the same topic, Diana: The Night She Died , the book explores conspiracies surrounding the event and ...
Hospices exist to provide comfort to people who doctors determine are at the end of their lives, with six months or less to live. The paramount objective, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, a trade association, is to make patients comfortable, with a focus “on enhancing the quality of remaining life.”
Simultaneous death is a problem of inheritance which occurs when two people (sometimes referred to as commorientes) die at, or very near, the same time, and at least one of them is entitled to part or all of the other's estate on their death. This is usually the result of an un-natural death occurring from events such as an accident, a homicide ...
Fredericka "Marm" Mandelbaum (March 25, 1825 – February 26, 1894) [1] [2] [3] operated as a criminal fence to many of the street gangs and criminals of New York's underworld, handling between $1–5 million in stolen goods between 1862 and 1884.