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Simo Häyhä (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈsimo ˈhæy̯hæ] ⓘ; 17 December 1905 – 1 April 2002), often referred to by his nickname, The White Death (Finnish: Valkoinen kuolema; Russian: Белая смерть, romanized: Belaya smert’), was a Finnish military sniper during World War II in the 1939–1940 Winter War between Finland and the ...
Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the " white death ", or historically as consumption, [ 8 ] is an infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria. [ 1 ] Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body. [ 1 ] Most infections show no symptoms, in which case it is ...
[62] [63] [64] Similar death rate occurred in North America. [63] In the United Kingdom, epidemic TB may have peaked around 1750, as suggested by mortality data. [65] In the 19th century, TB killed about a quarter of the adult population of Europe. [66] In western continental Europe, epidemic TB may have peaked in the first half of the 19th ...
The 1804 Haiti massacre, also referred to as the Haitian genocide,[1][2][3]was carried out by Afro-Haitiansoldiers, mostly former slaves, under orders from Jean-Jacques Dessalinesagainst much of the remaining European population in Haiti, which mainly included French people. [4][5]The Haitian Revolutiondefeated the French army in November 1803 ...
The brain is a major target for the actions of alcohol, and heavy alcohol consumption has long been associated with brain damage. Studies clearly indicate that alcohol is neurotoxic, with direct effects on nerve cells. Chronic alcohol abusers are at additional risk for brain injury from related causes, such as poor nutrition, liver disease, and ...
Donald Gruber, 65, died about 4 a.m. by suicide in his front yard. White Settlement police on Friday announced his death. Gruber was accused of drunkenly crashing his pickup truck and trailer into ...
About 7 pm on 4 September 2005, as Farquharson was returning his children to their mother after a Father's Day access visit, his white 1989 VN Commodore vehicle veered across the Princes Highway between Winchelsea and Geelong, in Victoria, crashed through a fence and came to rest in a 7.4 meter deep disused former quarry turned farm dam [8] where it filled with water and submerged.
On 29 April 1996, White was killed staying at Bonnie Mooney's house. Mooney's ex-husband, Roland Kruska, broke into the house, killing White and wounding Mooney's 12-year-old daughter with a sawed-off shotgun. Several weeks before the attack, on 11 March, Mooney went to Prince George RCMP to report that Kruska chased her in his vehicle after an ...