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There it is applied to a hare in flight from a dog that attempts to escape by jumping into the sea, only to be seized by a 'sea-dog'. The Latin equivalent was the seafaring idiom of Scylla and Charybdis , 'He runs on Scylla, wishing to avoid Charybdis' ( incidit in scyllam cupiens vitare charybdim ), a parallel pointed out by Edmund Arwaker in ...
US surgeon general was warned by his mom to avoid politics, but he jumped into the fray anyway By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The dated gold and silver trophies packed in the china cabinet of Dr. Vivek Murthy’s childhood home still boast the surgeon general’s many talents, from dance performances to math competitions.
"Jump into the Fire" is a song by American singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson from his 1971 album Nilsson Schmilsson. It was also issued as the album's second single, after " Without You ", and peaked at number 27 on America's Billboard Hot 100 chart and number 16 in Canada.
A man, believed to have been 56-year-old Robert Ahrens, [44] committed suicide by jumping into the rapids at Prospect Point. Ahrens's fatal jump was coincidentally recorded by WGRZ, as cameraman Larry Frasier and anchor Phil Kavits were interrupted during a news piece on Niagara Falls upon seeing Ahrens. 18 August 1985: Steve Trotter: Survival
Footage shows the moment a man at Orlando's Walt Disney World jumped off a bridge into a lagoon to allegedly win a bet. In a video shared on social media, the bandanna-wearing jumper climbs over a ...
The night before the big jump, the soldiers went out on the town for drinks, a movie, and more drinks. The movie they most likely saw was Geronimo, a western film about the Apache Indian chief of ...
A man involved in a collision on the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge fled the scene by jumping into the water, the California Highway Patrol said.
Coignet was sent on a series of solo missions for the Emperor during the disastrous invasion of Russia. He took part in an attack on the redoubts during the battle of Borodino. He witnessed the death of general Caulaincourt, whom he accompanied into the fray. Surviving cossacks and the Russian winter, Coignet was a witness to the horrors of the ...