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Thousands of cases of cannibalism are associated with the Great Chinese Famine of 1959 to 1961 that chiefly resulted from the Great Leap Forward. While the government downplays the events and treats the famine as a natural rather than a human-made disaster, the journalists Yang Jisheng and Jasper Becker provide many detailed reports in their ...
The Death Eaters are characters featured in the Harry Potter series of novels and films. They are a radical group of wizards and witches, led by the dark wizard Lord Voldemort , who seek to purify the wizarding community by eliminating wizards and witches born to non-magical parents.
Fewer than 5,000 of the prisoners taken at Stalingrad survived their captivity. [59] Cannibalism took place in the concentration and death camps in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a Nazi German puppet state which was governed by the fascist Ustasha organization, responsible for the Genocide of Serbs and the Holocaust in NDH.
[6] [7] The Island Caribs of the Lesser Antilles, whose name is the origin of the word cannibal, acquired a long-standing reputation as eaters of human flesh, reconfirmed when their legends were recorded in the 17th century. [8] Some controversy exists over the accuracy of these legends and the prevalence of actual cannibalism in the culture.
These are lists of poisonings, deliberate and accidental, in chronological order by the date of death of the victim(s).They include mass poisonings, confirmed attempted poisonings, suicides, fictional poisonings and people who are known or suspected to have killed multiple people.
Universal Studios visitors soon may come face-to-face with Death Eaters at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter — Diagon Alley, the theme park has revealed. The characters, the followers of Lord ...
Roger Lancelyn Green states in his Tales of the Greek Heroes that the mares’ descendants were used in the Trojan War, and survived even to the time of Alexander the Great. [ 6 ] [ 10 ] After the incident, Eurystheus sent Heracles to bring back Hippolyta's Girdle .
Despite his unusual diet, Tarrare was slim and of average height. [9] At the age of 17, he weighed only about 100 pounds (45 kg; 7 st 2 lb). [1] [5] He was described as having unusually soft fair hair and an abnormally wide mouth (roughly four inches between his jaws when his mouth was fully extended), [10] in which his teeth were heavily stained [9] and on which the lips were almost invisible.