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The 25-year-old Irish man became the only man ever lynched in Mapleton, Maine, [152] [verification needed] after he committed a robbery and beat two deputy sheriffs to death with an axe. [153] Unknown man 1875: A factory worker in Manchester found a mouse on her table and screamed. A man rushed over to her and tried to shoo it away, but it ...
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous is a 2020 book by Harvard professor Joseph Henrich that aims to explain history and psychological variation using approaches from cultural evolution and evolutionary psychology. In the book, Henrich explores how institutions and psychology ...
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.
The Man Who Ate the 747 (2000) is the debut novel of Ben Sherwood. It follows a record keeper for The Book of Records who discovers a farmer attempting to woo a woman by gradually eating a Boeing 747. [14] [15] The novel was heavily inspired by The Guinness Book of World Records; Sherwood interviewed Lotito via telephone as part of his research ...
Clooney, who took home the title in 1997 and 2006, says that being the “Sexiest Man Alive” takes extra dedication. ... 76 anomalies, weird structures people found using Google Earth. Lighter Side.
The archbishop of Mainz is claimed in legend to have been punished for his cruelty to the poor by being eaten alive by rodents. [9] [10] Edmund Ironside: 30 November 1016: According to Henry of Huntington, the English king was stabbed whilst on a toilet by an assassin hiding underneath. [11] [12] Béla I of Hungary: 11 September 1063
He was seen talking to an unknown man outside his office. At 4:14 a.m. CCTV footage shows Deely walking past what was then the AIB bank on the corner of Baggot Street Bridge and Haddington Road in the direction of his apartment. About 30 seconds later, the footage shows a man dressed in black passing by the bank.
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius is a 2009 biography of quantum physicist Paul Dirac written by British physicist and author, Graham Farmelo, and published by Faber and Faber. The book won the Biography Award at the 2009 Costa Book Awards, [1] and the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology. [2]