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A number of year-riddles use man-made objects as their controlling metaphor. For example, a modern Greek riddle invokes a cask made with twelve staves, and a Parsi riddle the contents of a chest. But most often these riddles draw on architecture, [43] as in the following mid-twentieth-century example from central Myanmar: Ein-daw-thar-lan: set ...
In 1984, Günther Stoll, [3] [4] an unemployed food engineer from Anzhausen, Westphalia (then West Germany), was suffering from a moderate case of paranoia.Prior to his death, he occasionally spoke to his wife of "those [ones]," (German: denen) unknown people who supposedly intended to harm him.
In Multan, Pakistan, a 9-year-old boy also died apparently copying the televised execution; his 10-year-old sister assisted with the hanging. A 15-year-old girl from Kolkata, India was reported to have hanged herself after becoming extremely depressed by watching the execution. Copycat hangings were blamed for the deaths of seven people worldwide.
Hannah Ocuish (sometimes "Occuish"; [3] March 1774 – December 20, 1786) was a 12-year old Pequot Native American girl with an intellectual disability, who was hanged on December 20, 1786, in New London, Connecticut, for the murder of Eunice Bolles, the 6-year-old daughter of a wealthy farmer.
Woodcut from A Wonder of Wonders (1651) depicting the hanging of Anne Greene. Anne Greene (c. 1628 – 1659 or c. 1665) was an English domestic servant who was accused of committing infanticide in 1650. She is known for surviving her attempted execution by hanging, being revived by physicians from the University of Oxford.
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The routine of hanging, mutilation and burning enacted by Slivko was an attempt to recreate a traffic accident involving the violent death of a teenage boy he had witnessed in 1961 which had sexually aroused him and awakened his paraphilias. [2] Sentenced to death in 1986, Slivko was executed by shooting on 16 September 1989. [3]
A Miami teenager in foster care committed suicide on Sunday, hanging herself from a noose during a live two-hour broadcast on Facebook. In the now-deleted post, Nakia Venant, 14, fashioned a noose ...