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Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette [a] (French: [ʒilbɛʁ dy mɔtje maʁki d(ə) la fajɛt]; 6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), known in the United States as Lafayette [a] (/ ˌ l ɑː f i ˈ ɛ t, ˌ l æ f-/ LA(H)F-ee-ET), was a French nobleman and military officer who volunteered to join the Continental Army, led by General George Washington ...
Lafayette - Lessons in Leadership from the Idealist General. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-2301-0504-1. Gottschlk, Louis (2007). Lafayette Comes to America. Read Books. pp. 27. ISBN 978-1-4067-2793-7. Lane, Jason (2003). General and Madame de Lafayette: Partners in Liberty's Cause in the American and French Revolutions. Taylor Trade Publishing.
Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado musical satirized the illegality of suicide, with Ko-Ko deciding not to kill himself, as it would be a capital offence.. Attitudes towards suicide slowly began to shift during the Renaissance; Thomas More the English humanist, wrote in Utopia (1516) that a person afflicted with disease can "free himself from this bitter life…since by death he will put an end ...
A cause of death for writer and director Jeff Baena, whose credits include “Life After Beth” and “The Little Hours,” has been determined. ... He died by suicide, according to the Los ...
Suicidology is the scientific study of suicidal behaviour, the causes of suicidalness and suicide prevention. [1] Every year, about one million people die by suicide, which is a mortality rate of sixteen per 100,000 or one death every forty seconds. [2]
Garrison Brown’s official cause of death has been revealed by the coroner. Brown died of a gunshot wound to the head, according to an autopsy report obtained by People on Wednesday, May 15. His ...
Canada, a country with a comparatively low suicide rate overall at 10.3 incidents per 100,000 people in 2016, exhibits one such discrepancy. When comparing the suicide rate of Indigenous peoples in Canada, the rate of suicide increases to 24.3 incidents per 100,000 people in 2016, [18] a rate among the ten highest in the world. There are ...
Candia-Bailey, 49, died by suicide in Illinois. Her mother, Veronica Candia, and husband Anthony Bailey, previously told NBC News that the Missouri university’s president John Moseley terminated ...