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On June 3, 2022, Ebony Leshay Crocket, aged 44, was killed after being fatally shot three times by her co-worker, 45-year-old Corey D. Brewer, in the parking lot. After fleeing, Brewer was later pulled over by police in Memphis and fatally shot when he opened fire on authorities.
Reconstruction of the late antique Hunting Amazons mosaic. The Amazons were a group or race of female warriors in Ancient Greek mythology. Most of them are only briefly named in one or two sources, either as companions of Penthesilea at the Trojan War, or as being killed by Heracles during his 12 labours.
They were named Amazons by Western Europeans who encountered them, due to the story of the female warriors of Amazons in Greek mythology. The emergence of an all-female military regiment was the result of Dahomey's male population facing high casualties in the increasingly frequent violence and warfare with neighbouring West African states.
The passenger in a Toyota Prius died after a crash with an Amazon delivery van in Anaheim on Wednesday, authorities said. Woman killed in crash with Amazon delivery van in Orange County Skip to ...
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A mechanic died after he got trapped under a van at an Amazon distribution center in Florida. The 42-year-old man was working on an Amazon delivery van when the jack stand failed.
The Amazon Klonie, after slaying her first opponent, is in turn killed. Penthesilea mows through the Greek lines, killing eight warriors, and cuts the arm off the Greek warrior who had killed Klonie. Penthesilea's Amazon comrades Bremusa, Evandre and Thermodosa fight valiantly alongside her but are slain, and so are Derinoe, Alkibie and Derimachea.
Sources provide names of individual Amazons, that are referred to as queens of their people, even as the head of a dynasty. Without a male companion, they are portrayed in command of their female warriors. Among the most prominent Amazon queens were: Otrera, daughter of the nymph Harmonia and god of war, Ares.