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The French king died as a result of striking his head on the lintel of a door while on his way to watch a game of real tennis. [16]: 105 [79] [80] Victims of the 1518 dancing plague: July 1518: Several people died of either heart attacks, strokes or exhaustion during a dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (Holy Roman Empire). [23 ...
The six-year-old died during an MRI scan at the Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, New York, after an oxygen tank was magnetically pulled into the machine and fractured his skull. [6] [7] Brittanie Cecil: 18 March 2002: The 13-year-old died from her injuries at an NHL game after a deflected puck struck her in the left temple. She was the ...
The 94-year-old British lighthouse keeper died several days after fighting a fire at Rudyerd's Tower, during which molten lead from the roof fell down his throat. His autopsy revealed that "the diaphragmatic upper mouth of the stomach greatly inflamed and ulcerated, and the tuncia in the lower part of the stomach burnt; and from the great ...
Here's what you need to know, including the top reasons Americans died in 2023. ... It seems morbid, and maybe even a little weird, to cover the main ways people die in the U.S., but doctors say ...
Humans have been lucky when it comes to avoiding sizeable meteors and mass die-offs. However, if one measuring 50-meters-wide and speeding towards Earth at roughly 9 miles per second exploded in ...
"James Otis, American patriot, struck and killed by lightning." - Nothing unusual there: lightning kills about 500-700 people a year. In the world it's said to be 1171 a year. However in a year something like 57 million people die. Although things like getting crushed by reptiles is far rarer, lightning deaths are unusual.--
There's a famous saying: "There is no such thing as a stupid question."Even astrophysicist Carl Sagan thought that "every question is a cry to understand the world." Yet the questions that the ...
He died on the spot through holding his breath. [37] [38] Qin Shi Huang: August 210 BC: The first emperor of China, whose artifacts and treasures include the Terracotta Army, died after ingesting several pills of mercury, in the belief that it would grant him immortality. [23] [39] [40] Chrysippus of Soli c. 206 BC