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Design of a cloth antimacassar Armchair with antimacassar-Sheffield Mayors Parlour Antimacassars on rail carriage seats. An antimacassar / ˌ æ n t ɪ m ə ˈ k æ s ər / is a small cloth placed over the backs or arms of chairs, or the head or cushions of a sofa, to prevent soiling of the permanent fabric underneath. [1]
John Clarence Woods (June 5, 1911 – July 21, 1950) was a United States Army master sergeant who, with Joseph Malta, carried out the Nuremberg executions of ten former top leaders of the Third Reich on October 16, 1946, after they were sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trials.
González and Ruano were in a relationship until his death in January 1969, when he was allegedly murdered by police. González and Sauquillo married in 1973 and were expecting a child at the time of the Atocha massacre. [1] Three men rang the doorbell of 55 Atocha Street between 10:30 pm and 10:45 pm on 24 January 1977.
List of Gardaí killed in the line of duty (Republic of Ireland) List of Malaysian police officers killed in the line of duty; List of New Zealand police officers killed in the line of duty; List of Singapore police officers killed in the line of duty; List of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty in the United States
These are a series of incomplete lists of unusual deaths, 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 ]
a team of men in his service (Order of Assassins) Imad al-Din Zengi: Emir of the Zengid dynasty: September 14, 1146: Qal'at Ja'bar: Seljuk Empire: Yarankash: Raymond II: Count of Tripoli: 1152: Tripoli's southern city gate County of Tripoli: Order of Assassins: Sverker I: King of Sweden: December 25, 1156: Alvastra Sweden: A trusted servant ...
Antimacassar, a cloth to protect chairs against soiling by the oil; Diospyros celebica or Makassar ebony, a species of flowering tree in the family Ebenaceae, endemic to the island of Sulawesi; Makassar-class landing platform dock, a class of amphibious warfare ships "Makassar", a song by Al Bano and Romina Power
Man-made famines and slave labor resulted in many hundreds of thousands of deaths. [75] Craig Etcheson suggested that the death toll was between 2 and 2.5 million, with a "most likely" figure of 2.2 million. After 5 years of researching 20,000 grave sites, he concluded that "these mass graves contain the remains of 1,386,734 victims of execution."