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Himmler's corpse after his suicide by cyanide poisoning, May 1945 "I am Heinrich Himmler." [236] — Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi officer (23 May 1945), last words said during his suicide shortly after bitting into a hidden potassium cyanide pill before collapsing dead onto the floor of the headquarters of the Second British Army in Lüneburg.
Etheridge Knight (April 19, 1931 – March 10, 1991) was an African-American poet who made his name in 1968 with his debut volume, Poems from Prison.The book recalls in verse his eight-year-long sentence after his arrest for robbery in 1960.
The poem was published in the Sangamo Journal, [2] a newspaper in which Lincoln had previously published other works. The poem uses a similar meter, sync, dictation and tone with many other poems published by Lincoln and according to Richard Miller, the man who discovered the poem, the theme of the interplay between rationality and madness is "especially Lincolnian in spirit". [3]
The soldier's father read the poem on BBC radio in 1995 in remembrance of his son, who had left the poem among his personal effects in an envelope addressed 'To all my loved ones'. The poem's first four lines are engraved on one of the stones of the Everest Memorial, Chukpi Lhara, in Dhugla Valley, near Everest. Reference to the wind and snow ...
The jisei, or death poem, of Kuroki Hiroshi, a Japanese sailor who died in a Kaiten suicide torpedo accident on 7 September 1944. It reads: "This brave man, so filled with love for his country that he finds it difficult to die, is calling out to his friends and about to die".
Music titan Quincy Jones, legendary producer of Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' dies at 91 Quincy Jones waves to photographers with his foot because his hands were full with his six Grammy Awards on ...
John Allyn McAlpin Berryman (born John Allyn Smith, Jr.; October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet and scholar.He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and is considered a key figure in the "confessional" school of poetry.
Ashley M Jones was born in Birmingham, Alabama, [7] to parents Donald and Jennifer Jones. Her father, John, was the chief of the Midfield Fire & Rescue Service and mother, Jennifer, worked as a social worker. [8]