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Mary Ward (née King; 27 April 1827 – 31 August 1869) was an Irish naturalist, astronomer, microscopist, author, and artist. [1] She was killed when she fell under the wheels of an experimental steam car built by her cousins.
Dave Kunst (born July 16, 1939) is the first person independently verified to have walked around the Earth. [1] The walk was intended to be achieved along with his brother John, but during the event John was shot and killed by bandits, and Dave wounded; Dave resumed and completed the walk with another brother, Peter.
It is possible this idea influenced his suicide. Empedocles died by throwing himself into the Sicilian volcano Mount Etna. [1] The Ludovisi Gaul killing himself and his wife, Roman copy after the Hellenistic original, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme. In general, the pagan world, both Roman and Greek, had a relaxed attitude towards the concept of ...
We all get bored at some point. One survey found that the average American adult experiences 131 days of boredom per year. And most of it happens at work.Another study revealed that employees are ...
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organised by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in December 2024 ) and then linked below. 2024
The death of Bridget Driscoll (née Swift; [1] c. 1851 – 17 August 1896) was the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in Great Britain. [2] [3] Driscoll was born in Ireland but living in Surrey with her husband and children at the time of her death.
Thomas Stevens (24 December 1854 [1] [2] – 24 January 1935) was the first person to circle the globe by bicycle. He rode a large-wheeled Ordinary, also known as a penny-farthing, from April 1884 to December 1886. [3]
Nigel Tetley (c. 1924–1972), British sailor who was the first person to circumnavigate the world solo in a trimaran; his body was found hanging from a tree, clothed in lingerie, considered by the pathologist to have been engaging in masochistic sexual activity.