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[15]: 95 To judge by what I now endure, the hand of death grasps me sharply." [11]: 140 [15]: 95 — Salvator Rosa, Italian artist and poet (15 March 1673), when asked how he was "Death is the great key that opens the palace of Eternity." [77] — John Milton, English poet and intellectual (8 November 1674) Death of the Viscount of Turenne.
This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources. The death of Aeschylus , killed by a tortoise dropped onto his head by an eagle , illustrated in the 15th-century Florentine Picture-Chronicle by Baccio Baldini [ 1 ]
"I thank you, sir, for your generous sympathy, but I die the death I always prayed for, the death of a soldier fighting for the rights of man." [47] — Baron Johann de Kalb, officer in the American War of Independence (16 August 1780), speaking to a British officer after being mortally wounded and captured at the Battle of Camden
Image credits: dizzyspell #6. Grant Imahara. He was full of life, totally healthy, uplifting, jovial, enthusiastic about science, the exact kind of voice we need in this current time.
The loss of a Hollywood great is never easy, but in certain cases, a star's passing comes long before it was their time to go. Talents like Amy Winehouse, Prince, Whitney Houston, Cory Monteith ...
Image credits: historymemeshq American history writer and author of Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund, Arnie Bernstein, also agrees that comedy and ...
To be close to death because of illness or age Informal, sometimes humorous: History Dead Informal Usually interpreted as "to be history." (Get) Hit by a bus To die suddenly and prematurely Informal Hop on the last rattler [5] To die Euphemistic "Rattler" is a slang expression for a freight train. Hop the twig [2] To die Informal Also 'to hop ...
The poem tells about lives and tragic deaths of many historical and legendary persons. A sixteenth-century poem The Mirror for Magistrates by various authors is a sequel to The Fall of Princes . References