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Gordon MacQuarrie (July 3, 1900 – November 10, 1956) was an American writer and journalist. Born in Superior, Wisconsin, he is best known for his short stories involving hunting and fishing, and for his semi-fictional organization known as The Old Duck Hunters' Association, Inc.(ODHA, Inc.)
The Greek painter died of laughter while painting an elderly woman. [7] [16]: 105 Anacreon: c. 485 BC: The poet, known for works in celebration of wine, choked to death on a grape stone according to Pliny the Elder. [13] [14] [16]: 104 The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica suggests that "the story has an air of mythical adaptation to the poet's ...
"Diplomatic Immunity" (1953, The People Trap) "Disposal Service" (1955, Pilgrimage to Earth) "Disquisitions on the Dinosaur" (1993, Dinosaur Fantastic, ed. Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1993) "Divine Intervention" (1989, The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley Book Five)
The post These Four People Were Faced with Death and Lived to Tell Their Stories appeared first on Reader's Digest. These four people survived terrifying ordeals, against all odds.
Nothing Serious is a collection of ten short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the United Kingdom on 21 July 1950 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on 24 May 1951 by Doubleday & Co., New York. [1] It was published again in 2008 by The Overlook Press.
Having a brush with death causes a profound change in a person. It gives them an entirely new outlook on life, for better or worse. For those who lived to tell the tale, you can guarantee that ...
Zeuxis, a 5th-century BC Greek painter, is said to have died laughing at the humorous way in which he painted an old woman. [10]Chrysippus, also known as "the man who died from laughing at his joke", an influential 3rd-century BC Greek Stoic philosopher, reportedly died of laughter after he saw a donkey eating his fermented figs; he told a slave to give the donkey undiluted wine to wash them ...
Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor; The Bridge (short story) The Bucket Rider; The Burrow (short story) C. The Cares of a Family Man; The City Coat of Arms; A Common ...