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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] The name also refers to the cloth flap 'collar' on a sailor's shirt or top, used to keep macassar oil off the uniform.
This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout the Middle Ages, noted as being unusual by multiple sources. John II Komnenos on a boar hunt Frederick Barbarossa 's strange drowning gave rise to legends that he was still alive
Name Date Location Deaths Responsible Party Victims Notes Massacre in Marash: 1920 Marash, Aleppo Vilayet: 5,000–12,000 Turks Armenians [40] [41] [42] Kahyaoğlu Farm Massacre June 11, 1920 Yeşiloba, Adana Vilayet: 64+ to ~200 Armenians Turks Report which was given to Mustafa Kemal Pasha included 43 men, 21 women and tens of children. Other ...
Died 26 hours later on 6 June. Sirhan was convicted on 17 April 1969, and less than a week later was sentenced to death. [34] The sentence was commuted to life in prison in 1972 after the California Supreme Court, in its decision in California v. Anderson, invalidated all pending death sentences imposed in California prior to 1972. 13 June 1969
This is a list of mass or spree killers. A mass murderer is typically defined as someone who kills two or more people in one incident, with no "cooling off" period, not including themselves. [1] [2] A mass murder typically occurs in a single location where one or more persons kill several others. [3] [4] [5]
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 ...
Saint Alodia and Saint Nunilo – Christian martyrs and confessors who were put to death during the reign of Abd ar-Rahman II, Caliph of Córdoba for apostasy. [318] Sarah Balabagan – Filipina who was imprisoned in the United Arab Emirates from 1994 to 1996 for murder. She was initially sentenced to death, but was later returned to the ...
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."