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Aaron Hernandez (2017), American football player and convicted murderer, hanging in prison cell, five days after his acquittal from a separate murder charge. [564] Hernandez was posthumously diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which has led to speculation over how the condition may have affected his behavior.
The 1951 Pont-Saint-Esprit mass poisoning, known in French as Le Pain Maudit, took place on 15 August 1951, in the small town of Pont-Saint-Esprit in Southern France.More than 250 people were involved, including 50 people interned in asylums, and there were seven deaths.
Auvergne terrain map. Auvergne is known for its mountain ranges and dormant volcanoes. Together the Monts Dore and the Chaîne des Puys include 80 volcanoes. The Puy de Dôme is the highest volcano in the region, with an altitude of 1,465 metres (4,806 ft).
A 15-year-old girl fell to her death while taking a selfie near a waterfall. [199] 22 July 2018 Australia: 1 0 Fall A 19-year-old American man fell to his death at Cape Solander in Kurnell near Sydney, Australia. [200] [201] 5 September 2018 United States: 1 0 Fall An Israeli teen fell to his death while trying to take a selfie at Yosemite ...
After his death, the remains of Damiens's corpse were reduced to ashes and scattered in the wind. [16] His house was razed, his brothers and sisters were forced to change their names, and his father, wife, and daughter were banished from France. [1] France had not experienced an attempted regicide since the killing of Henry IV in 1610. [17]
Post-mortem photograph of Emperor Frederick III of Germany, 1888. Post-mortem photograph of Brazil's deposed emperor Pedro II, taken by Nadar, 1891.. The invention of the daguerreotype in 1839 made portraiture commonplace, as many of those who were unable to afford the commission of a painted portrait could afford to sit for a photography session.
Averoigne is a fictional counterpart of a historical province in France, detailed in a series of short stories by the American writer Clark Ashton Smith. Smith may have based Averoigne on the actual province of Auvergne , [ 1 ] but its name was probably influenced by the French department of Aveyron , immediately south of Auvergne, due to the ...
The Château de Chavaniac aka Chateau Lafayette [1] [2] [3] is a fortified manor house of eighteen rooms furnished in the Louis XIII style located in Chavaniac-Lafayette, Haute-Loire, in Auvergne province, France. Flanked by two towers of black stone, it was built in the 14th century and was the birthplace of General Lafayette in 1757.