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I didn't even think that something like that could happen or that I would see what I was about to see.
...the historical literature reports only few isolated cases over the last 150 years...
Many of history's most important figures have suffered strange deaths that do not seem to befit their noble legacy.
Many of history's most important figures have suffered strange deaths that do not seem to befit their noble legacy.
Many of history's most important figures have suffered strange deaths that do not seem to befit their noble legacy.
Many of history's most important figures have suffered strange deaths that do not seem to befit their noble legacy.
Because of the inexplicable and strange circumstances of her case, it is suspected that Reeser was a victim of spontaneous combustion.
Terpander was an excellent harper, and while he was singing to his harp at Sparta, and opened his mouth wide, a waggish person that stood by threw a fig into it so unluckily, that he was strangled by it.
Heracl[t]ius, the Ephesian, fell into a dropsy, and was thereupon advised by the physicians to anoint himself all over with cow‑dung, and so to sit in the warm sun; his servant had left him alone, and the dogs, supposing him to be a wild beast, fell upon him, and killed him.
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(довідка)Polydamus, the famous wrestler, was forced by a tempest into a cave, which being ready to fall into ruins by the violent and sudden incursion of the waters, though others fled at the signs of the danger's approach, yet he alone would remain, as one that could bear up the whole heap and weight of the falling earth with his shoulders; but he found it above all human strength, and so was crushed in pieces by it.
Attila, King of the Huns, having married a wife in Hungary, and upon his wedding night surcharged himself with meat and drink; as he slept, his nose fell a bleeding, and through his mouth found the way into his throat, by which he was choked before any person was apprehensive of the danger.
Anno Dom. 830, Popiel the Second, King of Poland, careless of matters of state, gave himself over to all manner of dissoluteness, so that his Lords despised him, and call him the Polonian Sardanapalus. He feared therefore that they would set one of his kinsmen in his stead; so that, by the advice of his wife, whom he loved, he feigned himself sick, and sent for all his uncles, Princes of Pomerania (being twenty in number), to come and see him, whom (lying in his bed) he earnestly prayed, that, if he chanced to die, they would make choice of one of his sons to be King; which they willingly promised, in case the Lords of the kingdom would consent thereto. The Queen enticed them all, one by one, to drink a health to the King: as soon as they had done they took their leave. But they were scarce got out of the King's chamber, before they were seized with intolerable pains, and the corrosions of that poison wherewith the Queen had intermingled their draughts; and, in a short time, they all died. The Queen gave it out as a judgment of God upon them for having conspired the death of the King; and prosecuting this accusation, caused their bodies to be taken out of their graves, and cast into the lake Goplo. But, by a miraculous transformation, an innumerable number of rats and mice did rush out of those bodies; which, gathering together in crowds, went and assaulted the King, as he was with great jollity feasting in his palace. The guards endeavoured to drive them away with weapons and flames, but all in vain. The King, perplexed with this extraordinary danger, fled, with his wife and children, into a fortress that is yet to be seen in that lake of Goplo, over-against a city called Crusphitz, whither he was pursued with such a number of these creatures, that the land and the water were covered with them, and they cried and hissed most fearfully: they entered in at the windows of the fortress, having scaled the walls, and there they devoured the King, his wife, and children, alive, and left nothing of them remaining; by which means all the race of the Poland princes were utterly extinguished, and Pyast, a husbandman, at the last, was elected to succeed.
Pope Adrian IV. drinking a draught of spring-water, to refresh himself when he was thirsty, a fly, falling into the glass as he was drinking, choaked him.
Frederic the First, Emperor of Germany, bathing himself in the Cydnus, a river of Silesia, of a violent course, the swiftness of the stream tripped up his heels, and, not being able to recover himself, was suddenly drowned.
Charles II. King of Navarre, by a vicious life in his youth, fell into a paralytic distemper in his old age, that took away the use of his limbs. His physicians directed him to be sewed up in a sheet that had for a considerable time been steeped in strong distilled spirits, to recover the natural heat of his benumbed joints. The surgeon having sewed him up very close, and wanting a knife to cut off the thread, made use of a candle that was at hand to burn it off; but the flame from the thread reaching the sheet, the spirits wherewith it was wet immediately taking fire, burnt so vehemently, that no endeavours could extinguish the flame. Thus the miserable King lost his life in using the means to recover his health.
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(довідка)In the nineteenth year of Queen Elizabeth, at the assize at Oxford, July 1577, one Rowland Jenk[e]s, a Popish bookseller, for dispersing scandalous pamphlets defamatory to the Queen and State, was arraigned and condemned; but on the sudden there arose such a damp that almost all present were in danger of being smothered. The Jurors died that instant. Soon after died Sir Robert Bell, Lord Chief Baron; Sir Robert de Oly, Sir William Babington; Mr. de Oly, High Sheriff; Mr. Wearnam, Mr. Danvers, Mr. Fettiplace, Mr. Harcourt, Justices; Mr. Kerle, Mr. Nash, Mr. Greenwood, Mr. Foster, Gentlemen of good account; Serjeant Barham, an excellent pleader; three hundred persons presently sickened and died within the town, and two hundred more sickening died in other places; amongst all whom there was neither woman nor child.
Dr. Andrew Perne (though very facetious, was at last killed with a jest, as I have been credibly informed from excellent hands. He is taxed much for altering his religion four times in twelve years; from the last of King Henry the Eighth, to the first of Queen Elizabeth, a Papist, a Protestant, a Papist, a Protestant; but still Andrew Perne. It happened he was at Court with his pupil Archbishop Whitgift, in a rainy afternoon, when the Queen was resolved to ride abroad, contrary to the mind of the Ladies, who were on horseback, (coaches as yet being not common) to attend her. One Clod, the Queen's jester, was employed by the Courtiers to laugh the Queen out of so inconvenient a journey. "Heaven, saith he, "Madam dissuades you; this heavenly-minded man, Archbishop Whitgift, and earth, dissuades you; your fool Clod, such a lump of Clay as myself, dissuades you; and if neither will prevail with you, here is one that is neither heaven nor earth, but hangs betwixt both, Dr. Perne, and he also dissuades you." Hereupon the Queen and the Courtiers laughed heartily, whilst the Doctor looked sadly; and going over with his Grace to Lambeth, soon died.
Terpander was an excellent harper, and while he was singing to his harp at Sparta, and opened his mouth wide, a waggish person that stood by threw a fig into it so unluckily, that he was strangled by it.
Heracl[t]ius, the Ephesian, fell into a dropsy, and was thereupon advised by the physicians to anoint himself all over with cow‑dung, and so to sit in the warm sun; his servant had left him alone, and the dogs, supposing him to be a wild beast, fell upon him, and killed him.
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(довідка)Polydamus, the famous wrestler, was forced by a tempest into a cave, which being ready to fall into ruins by the violent and sudden incursion of the waters, though others fled at the signs of the danger's approach, yet he alone would remain, as one that could bear up the whole heap and weight of the falling earth with his shoulders; but he found it above all human strength, and so was crushed in pieces by it.
Attila, King of the Huns, having married a wife in Hungary, and upon his wedding night surcharged himself with meat and drink; as he slept, his nose fell a bleeding, and through his mouth found the way into his throat, by which he was choked before any person was apprehensive of the danger.
Anno Dom. 830, Popiel the Second, King of Poland, careless of matters of state, gave himself over to all manner of dissoluteness, so that his Lords despised him, and call him the Polonian Sardanapalus. He feared therefore that they would set one of his kinsmen in his stead; so that, by the advice of his wife, whom he loved, he feigned himself sick, and sent for all his uncles, Princes of Pomerania (being twenty in number), to come and see him, whom (lying in his bed) he earnestly prayed, that, if he chanced to die, they would make choice of one of his sons to be King; which they willingly promised, in case the Lords of the kingdom would consent thereto. The Queen enticed them all, one by one, to drink a health to the King: as soon as they had done they took their leave. But they were scarce got out of the King's chamber, before they were seized with intolerable pains, and the corrosions of that poison wherewith the Queen had intermingled their draughts; and, in a short time, they all died. The Queen gave it out as a judgment of God upon them for having conspired the death of the King; and prosecuting this accusation, caused their bodies to be taken out of their graves, and cast into the lake Goplo. But, by a miraculous transformation, an innumerable number of rats and mice did rush out of those bodies; which, gathering together in crowds, went and assaulted the King, as he was with great jollity feasting in his palace. The guards endeavoured to drive them away with weapons and flames, but all in vain. The King, perplexed with this extraordinary danger, fled, with his wife and children, into a fortress that is yet to be seen in that lake of Goplo, over-against a city called Crusphitz, whither he was pursued with such a number of these creatures, that the land and the water were covered with them, and they cried and hissed most fearfully: they entered in at the windows of the fortress, having scaled the walls, and there they devoured the King, his wife, and children, alive, and left nothing of them remaining; by which means all the race of the Poland princes were utterly extinguished, and Pyast, a husbandman, at the last, was elected to succeed.
At Anagni Hadrian proclaimed the emperor excommunicate and a few days later, to cool himself down [during the hot weather] he started off for a certain fountain along with his attendants. When he got there he drank deeply and at once (according to the story), a fly entered his mouth, stuck to his throat, and could not be shifted by any device of the doctors: and as a result, the pope died., cited in Maxwell-Stuart, P. G. (1997). Chronicle of the Popes: The Reign-by-reign Record of the Papacy from St. Peter to the Present ; with 308 Illustrations, 105 in Color (англ.). London: Thames and Hudson. с. 97. ISBN 978-0-50001-798-2.
Pope Adrian IV. drinking a draught of spring-water, to refresh himself when he was thirsty, a fly, falling into the glass as he was drinking, choaked him.
Frederic the First, Emperor of Germany, bathing himself in the Cydnus, a river of Silesia, of a violent course, the swiftness of the stream tripped up his heels, and, not being able to recover himself, was suddenly drowned.
Charles II. King of Navarre, by a vicious life in his youth, fell into a paralytic distemper in his old age, that took away the use of his limbs. His physicians directed him to be sewed up in a sheet that had for a considerable time been steeped in strong distilled spirits, to recover the natural heat of his benumbed joints. The surgeon having sewed him up very close, and wanting a knife to cut off the thread, made use of a candle that was at hand to burn it off; but the flame from the thread reaching the sheet, the spirits wherewith it was wet immediately taking fire, burnt so vehemently, that no endeavours could extinguish the flame. Thus the miserable King lost his life in using the means to recover his health.
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(довідка)In the nineteenth year of Queen Elizabeth, at the assize at Oxford, July 1577, one Rowland Jenk[e]s, a Popish bookseller, for dispersing scandalous pamphlets defamatory to the Queen and State, was arraigned and condemned; but on the sudden there arose such a damp that almost all present were in danger of being smothered. The Jurors died that instant. Soon after died Sir Robert Bell, Lord Chief Baron; Sir Robert de Oly, Sir William Babington; Mr. de Oly, High Sheriff; Mr. Wearnam, Mr. Danvers, Mr. Fettiplace, Mr. Harcourt, Justices; Mr. Kerle, Mr. Nash, Mr. Greenwood, Mr. Foster, Gentlemen of good account; Serjeant Barham, an excellent pleader; three hundred persons presently sickened and died within the town, and two hundred more sickening died in other places; amongst all whom there was neither woman nor child.
Dr. Andrew Perne (though very facetious, was at last killed with a jest, as I have been credibly informed from excellent hands. He is taxed much for altering his religion four times in twelve years; from the last of King Henry the Eighth, to the first of Queen Elizabeth, a Papist, a Protestant, a Papist, a Protestant; but still Andrew Perne. It happened he was at Court with his pupil Archbishop Whitgift, in a rainy afternoon, when the Queen was resolved to ride abroad, contrary to the mind of the Ladies, who were on horseback, (coaches as yet being not common) to attend her. One Clod, the Queen's jester, was employed by the Courtiers to laugh the Queen out of so inconvenient a journey. "Heaven, saith he, "Madam dissuades you; this heavenly-minded man, Archbishop Whitgift, and earth, dissuades you; your fool Clod, such a lump of Clay as myself, dissuades you; and if neither will prevail with you, here is one that is neither heaven nor earth, but hangs betwixt both, Dr. Perne, and he also dissuades you." Hereupon the Queen and the Courtiers laughed heartily, whilst the Doctor looked sadly; and going over with his Grace to Lambeth, soon died.
On May 23 of that year, he stood in the doorway of the home at which he was staying and a bolt of lightning took him. Family and friends, shocked by the event, recalled that that was how he wished to go.
His gravestone, erected in the Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, is a monument to bizarre death, with a story so unusual that it needed to be carved in stone for posterity.
But the severity of Cambyses was more extraordinary, who caused the skin of a certain corrupt judge to be flayed from his body, and nailed upon the seat, where he commanded the man's son to take his place. However by this savage and unusual punishment of a judge, he - a king and a barbarian - ensured that no judge in future could be corrupted.
But not to digress any further, let us mention those who have perished by unusual deaths.
He killed himself in a strange and unusual way; for he shut himself up in a newly plastered house, and caused a fire to be kindled, by the smoke of which, and the moist vapours from the lime, he was there stifled to death.
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(довідка)There was no reason at all why the explorers should have perished when and where they did
The circumstances of his death were somewhat bizarre.
His bizarre death was the result of his addiction to a quack cure, radium-laced water.
To some of the most distinguished of our race death has come in the strangest possible way, and so grotesquely as to subtract greatly from the dignity of the sorrow it must certainly have occasioned.
Ctesias, the Greek physician to Artaxerxes, the king of Persia, gives an appallingly detailed description of the execution inflicted on a soldier named Mithridates, who was misguided enough to claim the credit for killing the king's brother, Cyrus...
To some of the most distinguished of our race death has come in the strangest possible way, and so grotesquely as to subtract greatly from the dignity of the sorrow it must certainly have occasioned.
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: Обслуговування CS1: Сторінки з параметром url-status, але без параметра archive-url (посилання)To some of the most distinguished of our race death has come in the strangest possible way, and so grotesquely as to subtract greatly from the dignity of the sorrow it must certainly have occasioned.
The reality of this assertion seemed, however, then incredible to Dr. Spry, who could scarcely suppose it possible that any human being could exist after receiving melted lead into the stomach...
Until the wreck is located, the story remains a curious anecdote in the annals of submarine losses.
Julius was killed in a bizarre mischance when his head was blown off by a stray cannon ball as he rode with General Rosecrans near Murfreesboro.
The story of Rasputin's death is one of the best-known moments of his life. Even people who know almost nothing about the man have heard of how he died, and his bizarre end has long since become part of global popular culture.
This truly strange occurrence not only made a front-page headline in the local newspaper, but also a prominent editorial as well.
Mantell's death was sensational fodder for sensational media.
It's the strange saga of U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Thomas P. [sic] Mantell, who lost his life in 1948...
The Times gives the particulars of a death which took place a few days ago from a singular cause at Grayton-le-Marsh [sic]... "The occurrence of a similar case to the above is either so rare or so seldom detected, that several medical men of large experience never remember ever having heard of one like it.", cited in 11 unusual tales of terror from historical newspapers. Blog. The British Newspaper Archive. 27 жовтня 2014. Процитовано 5 жовтня 2024.
A strange and terrible accident has just occurred in the neighbourhood of Vilna, in Russia.
In Dundee, Scotland, 22 year old Jane Goodwin died a truly Victorian death – lacing her corsets too tightly.
Death by Paris Green was one of the stranger causes of death in the 19th century.
Sam Wardell was a lamplighter who attached a ten pound rock to his alarm clock. When the alarm clock went off, the rock would fall onto the floor. Why a lamplighter had to be up so early is a mystery to me as they lit the gas lamps in the evenings, however, one night he moved his furniture for a party. He failed to move the furniture back. The alarm clock went off, and the rock fell right on his head.
What happened next led ultimately to his gruesome death 4 years later and to his place as a central character in a bizarre episode in U.S. medicine.
Here is a newspaper account of the unusual death of Clement Vallandigham, a leader of the Copperhead Democrats during the Civil War.
Her demise was altogether unexpected, so much so that her family and close friends were so upset by the news last night that it was several hours before they could discuss the case at all.
Russian prosecutors have launched a new investigation into the mysterious case of nine students who died in bizarre circumstances after disappearing on a skiing trip 60 years ago.
Since today is inauguration day, allow me to shed light on what has to be one of the most unusual inauguration stories: the death of William Henry Harrison.
Then you have those remembered for their short stay in the White House and unusual cause of death. The 12th president, Zachary Taylor, belongs to the latter category.
Knud R. Joergensen wrote in 1995 about the 1791 case of composer Franz Kotzwara who enlisted the help of a London prostitute, Susannah Hill, to assist him with his bizarre wish. After paying Hill two shillings, Kotzwara asked her to cut off his genitalia – a request the prostitute refused. Yet, Hill did agree to fulfill Kotzwara's sexual wish of strangling himself with a rope. It was the first documented case of death by sexual strangulation.[Архівовано 2006-01-26 у Wayback Machine.]
In the cruelest of ironies, Midgley's final invention directly caused his demise.
An additional connection between the Abimelech narrative and the early northern monarchy may be present also in the story of Abimelech's unusual and violent death in Thebez.
Fatal accidents did occur as in the case of Arrhichion, but they were very rare...
There were 13 deaths, but not one of them was caused by fire itself," Las says. "They were all to do with the madness that took hold. Some of the stories were very sad, but some of them were also bizarre. My favourite is the house where there was a wake going on. The people there put themselves at risk to save the corpse, but they only save him enough to make sure he doesn't burn, before they all run back to get themselves some free whiskey. I like that because it is just so human.
...in Puritan times, his unusual crime so offended his community that it warranted the harshest of punishments.
...it was Slotin's bizarre death that woke me to physics... Slotin tragically died from radiation poisoning one week after his incident in 1946 at the age of 35.Шаблон:Self-published source
Milo of Croton's death was bizarre, but fitting
An additional connection between the Abimelech narrative and the early northern monarchy may be present also in the story of Abimelech's unusual and violent death in Thebez.
Fatal accidents did occur as in the case of Arrhichion, but they were very rare...
Following the shocking events of Derby day, the WSPU leadership was quick to hail Davison as a martyr for the women's cause.
It is impossible to figure to one's self any event which could produce a greater sensation or be more striking to the imagination than this, happening at such a time and under such circumstances: the eminence of the man, the sudden conversion of a scene of gaiety and splendour into one of horror and dismay; the countless multitudes present, and the effect upon them-crushed to death in sight of his wife and at the feet (as it was) of his great political rival-all calculated to produce a deep and awful impression.
It was 133 years ago, on 19 December 1881, that the Tory MP Sir William Payne-Gallwey was out shooting in Bagby, North Yorkshire, when he fell over and landed on a turnip. The impact killed the poor man.
The odds of being struck and killed by a meteorite are said to be as low as one in 250,000.
An incident on the set of a 1958 edition of Armchair Theatre illustrates the perverse extremes of professionalism that television actors were expected to exhibit.
An additional connection between the Abimelech narrative and the early northern monarchy may be present also in the story of Abimelech's unusual and violent death in Thebez.
For other testimony to the bizarre practice of seeking death by snake-bite, see the sources cited in note 17 above.
[B]etween 1924 and his bizarre death in 1939, Nicholas Comper designed and built a series of light aircraft...
Some moments in history seem too unbelievable to be true. The story of the life and death of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn is one such story.
This makes his bizarre accidental death while servicing his car at a gas station just north of downtown Los Angeles a greater tragedy.
The situation, as they found it, was bad enough, but the appliances which had been used to produce death were most wonderful, and will stand in the history of suicides without a parallel.
By a peculiar accident James Doyle Jr., a lineman employed by the Bay Counties Power Company at Smartsville, lost his life to-day.
Deputy Sherriff J. L. McDermott died early today from injuries received in a freak accident in which he was impaled upon a hook holding a water hose.
Many deaths had been attributed to radium poisoning, but only one previously to poisoning contracted in this manner.
Clark County authorities today investigated the weird death of Fred Clapp, 77-year-old farmer, while being dragged by his team of horses.
What is believed to be one of the most unusual deaths in medical history occurred here yesterday when anesthetic gasses in the lungs of a Johns Hopkin Hospital patient exploded, killing the sick person instantly.
An unusual death was that of Benjamin Taslor of Maryland, reported by Dr. Winford Smith of Johns Hopkins.
Maj. Kenneth McCullar, 27, above, of Courtland, Miss., outstanding master of heavy bombardment tactics, was killed in a freak accident.
Terpander was an excellent harper, and while he was singing to his harp at Sparta, and opened his mouth wide, a waggish person that stood by threw a fig into it so unluckily, that he was strangled by it.
Heracl[t]ius, the Ephesian, fell into a dropsy, and was thereupon advised by the physicians to anoint himself all over with cow‑dung, and so to sit in the warm sun; his servant had left him alone, and the dogs, supposing him to be a wild beast, fell upon him, and killed him.
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(довідка)Polydamus, the famous wrestler, was forced by a tempest into a cave, which being ready to fall into ruins by the violent and sudden incursion of the waters, though others fled at the signs of the danger's approach, yet he alone would remain, as one that could bear up the whole heap and weight of the falling earth with his shoulders; but he found it above all human strength, and so was crushed in pieces by it.
Attila, King of the Huns, having married a wife in Hungary, and upon his wedding night surcharged himself with meat and drink; as he slept, his nose fell a bleeding, and through his mouth found the way into his throat, by which he was choked before any person was apprehensive of the danger.
Anno Dom. 830, Popiel the Second, King of Poland, careless of matters of state, gave himself over to all manner of dissoluteness, so that his Lords despised him, and call him the Polonian Sardanapalus. He feared therefore that they would set one of his kinsmen in his stead; so that, by the advice of his wife, whom he loved, he feigned himself sick, and sent for all his uncles, Princes of Pomerania (being twenty in number), to come and see him, whom (lying in his bed) he earnestly prayed, that, if he chanced to die, they would make choice of one of his sons to be King; which they willingly promised, in case the Lords of the kingdom would consent thereto. The Queen enticed them all, one by one, to drink a health to the King: as soon as they had done they took their leave. But they were scarce got out of the King's chamber, before they were seized with intolerable pains, and the corrosions of that poison wherewith the Queen had intermingled their draughts; and, in a short time, they all died. The Queen gave it out as a judgment of God upon them for having conspired the death of the King; and prosecuting this accusation, caused their bodies to be taken out of their graves, and cast into the lake Goplo. But, by a miraculous transformation, an innumerable number of rats and mice did rush out of those bodies; which, gathering together in crowds, went and assaulted the King, as he was with great jollity feasting in his palace. The guards endeavoured to drive them away with weapons and flames, but all in vain. The King, perplexed with this extraordinary danger, fled, with his wife and children, into a fortress that is yet to be seen in that lake of Goplo, over-against a city called Crusphitz, whither he was pursued with such a number of these creatures, that the land and the water were covered with them, and they cried and hissed most fearfully: they entered in at the windows of the fortress, having scaled the walls, and there they devoured the King, his wife, and children, alive, and left nothing of them remaining; by which means all the race of the Poland princes were utterly extinguished, and Pyast, a husbandman, at the last, was elected to succeed.
Pope Adrian IV. drinking a draught of spring-water, to refresh himself when he was thirsty, a fly, falling into the glass as he was drinking, choaked him.
Frederic the First, Emperor of Germany, bathing himself in the Cydnus, a river of Silesia, of a violent course, the swiftness of the stream tripped up his heels, and, not being able to recover himself, was suddenly drowned.
Charles II. King of Navarre, by a vicious life in his youth, fell into a paralytic distemper in his old age, that took away the use of his limbs. His physicians directed him to be sewed up in a sheet that had for a considerable time been steeped in strong distilled spirits, to recover the natural heat of his benumbed joints. The surgeon having sewed him up very close, and wanting a knife to cut off the thread, made use of a candle that was at hand to burn it off; but the flame from the thread reaching the sheet, the spirits wherewith it was wet immediately taking fire, burnt so vehemently, that no endeavours could extinguish the flame. Thus the miserable King lost his life in using the means to recover his health.
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(довідка)In the nineteenth year of Queen Elizabeth, at the assize at Oxford, July 1577, one Rowland Jenk[e]s, a Popish bookseller, for dispersing scandalous pamphlets defamatory to the Queen and State, was arraigned and condemned; but on the sudden there arose such a damp that almost all present were in danger of being smothered. The Jurors died that instant. Soon after died Sir Robert Bell, Lord Chief Baron; Sir Robert de Oly, Sir William Babington; Mr. de Oly, High Sheriff; Mr. Wearnam, Mr. Danvers, Mr. Fettiplace, Mr. Harcourt, Justices; Mr. Kerle, Mr. Nash, Mr. Greenwood, Mr. Foster, Gentlemen of good account; Serjeant Barham, an excellent pleader; three hundred persons presently sickened and died within the town, and two hundred more sickening died in other places; amongst all whom there was neither woman nor child.
Dr. Andrew Perne (though very facetious, was at last killed with a jest, as I have been credibly informed from excellent hands. He is taxed much for altering his religion four times in twelve years; from the last of King Henry the Eighth, to the first of Queen Elizabeth, a Papist, a Protestant, a Papist, a Protestant; but still Andrew Perne. It happened he was at Court with his pupil Archbishop Whitgift, in a rainy afternoon, when the Queen was resolved to ride abroad, contrary to the mind of the Ladies, who were on horseback, (coaches as yet being not common) to attend her. One Clod, the Queen's jester, was employed by the Courtiers to laugh the Queen out of so inconvenient a journey. "Heaven, saith he, "Madam dissuades you; this heavenly-minded man, Archbishop Whitgift, and earth, dissuades you; your fool Clod, such a lump of Clay as myself, dissuades you; and if neither will prevail with you, here is one that is neither heaven nor earth, but hangs betwixt both, Dr. Perne, and he also dissuades you." Hereupon the Queen and the Courtiers laughed heartily, whilst the Doctor looked sadly; and going over with his Grace to Lambeth, soon died.
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: Обслуговування CS1: Сторінки з параметром url-status, але без параметра archive-url (посилання)John Ericsen, the 11-year-old son of a sectionman in the employ of the Northern Pacific, who has been missing since the Fourth of July, met with a tragic and unusual death, his crushed and mangled body being found today beneath a mass of coal in a bin near the Northern Pacific roundhouse.
A most remarkable and unusual death took place at the state insane asylum in Norfolk.
In 1875, we reported on a very unusual death.
Mützelburg himself had died in a freak accident a few months earlier.
The case only got stranger from there.
One of the most bizarre types to be developed under this programme was Eric Bachem's 'Natter', which had the enthusiastic support of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler.
The manner of death was bizarre...
The bizarre deaths of hikers at Russia's Dyatlov Pass have inspired countless conspiracy theories...
A fatality of a very peculiar nature occurred early this morning.
Spencer's death came as the result of an unusual accident.
His death was a little unusual: his horse threw him when it stumbled in a mole's burrow and the king broke his collarbone.
A lynching in Maine is an unusual thing. Throughout New England, lynching was extremely rare.
This fire is a curious thing," Burgess said, "and I've been deluged by letters and phone calls offering solutions to the problems facing us.
Sir William, so late as Thursday, was out shooting in the parish of Bagby, and in crossing a turnip field fell with his body on to a turnip, sustaining severe internal injuries. All that medical aid could do was done, but with Sir William's failing health he gradually sank, and died, as stated above, about ten o'clock yesterday morning.
A strange case which has recently come under the notice of the physicians, is the unhappy fate of the little boy who lived a few miles below Grand Falls... The above case is an actual fact, and so far as we can learn, it is unparalleled.
A short time ago the strange story of a snake being pulled out of the mouth of a boy who lived near Grand Falls, in Aroostook county, was telegraphed the papers. Since then the case, which is believed to be unparalleled, has attracted the attention of physicians, and the story is fully confirmed.
The almost incredible story recently printed about the death of a boy near Grand Falls from hemorrhage caused by pulling from his mouth a live snake which had grown to his flesh proves to be literally true.
The first and only fatal mishap ever recorded from Yellowstone Canyon, occurred Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, when a Ford coupe in some mysterious manner evidently got out of control of the driver and backed between trees that normally would afford protection...
For as murders go, the slaying of Mike Malloy was an extraordinary inept, hapless, bumbling comedy of errors and human endurance.
Her fiance, George Anton, 33, also of Brooklyn, owner of a radio store, who with Joseph Freitag, grocer living in Miss Styer's three-story red brick four-family house, discovered the body, explained the bizarre mystery to puzzled police.
The friend who provided the bizarre man-trap, police said, was one of those who found the body.
It is truly ironical that McCullar should meet his death while still practically on the ground.
For over 58 years the case had been written about in about every book and mentioned on numerous TV shows, and had finally been written off as a mistaken balloon, with the pilot killed in either a freak accident or misgauging his ability to fly at certain altitudes without oxygen.
Does there not lurk within the heart of every orthopedist interest in the unusual?
[...]if there was any known drug acting as a poison in the beer it was almost certainly arsenic. Improbable as this hypothesis at first seemed, yet it was a valid hypothesis, for it was not known to be untrue, it explained all the facts, and it was easily capable of proof or disproof.
Does there not lurk within the heart of every orthopedist interest in the unusual?
[...]if there was any known drug acting as a poison in the beer it was almost certainly arsenic. Improbable as this hypothesis at first seemed, yet it was a valid hypothesis, for it was not known to be untrue, it explained all the facts, and it was easily capable of proof or disproof.
The coroner's inquest on the body of Mrs. Caroline Yates, who died under suspicions circumstances at Redfern last week, was concluded to-day.
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Mary Ellen Rumble, the daughter of a farmer at Watervale, in the Murrumburrah district, was killed in a peculiar manner to-day.
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(довідка)A remarkable fatality occurred at Glen Elgin, near Glen Innes, on Saturday morning when Mrs. W. C. Eckersley, a well-known and respected resident of the district, was drowned.
Mrs. W. C. Eckersly, of Glen Elgn (Glen Innes), met her end in peculiarly distressing circumstances on Saturday last.
Susan Grace Kelly (80) died under unusual circumstances at Armidale.
But questions continue to surround the bizarre circumstances of Houdini's death at age 52, including suggestions by some fans that the celebrated performer was murdered.
But questions continue to surround the bizarre circumstances of Houdini's death at age 52, including suggestions by some fans that the celebrated performer was murdered.
At the time of Tycho's death, in 1601, the blame fell on his failure to relieve himself while drinking profusely at the banquet, supposedly injuring his bladder and making him unable to urinate.
Emile Froment-Meurice and his wife, prominent members of Paris society, were killed in an extraordinary accident this evening.
Unusual, almost unique, the collapse of the house in the rue d'Anjou, Paris, on Friday evening [April 25] has naturally aroused widespread comment in the city., cited in 100, 75, 50 Years Ago. Opinion. The New York Times. 26 квітня 2013. Процитовано 27 листопада 2024.
The Earl of Carnarvon died peacefully at 2 o'clock this morning. He was conscious almost to the end.
Despite the pitch that Creighton introduced, he is best known for his mysterious death.
W chwili śmierci miał 88 lat, jednak poprzedzające ją wydarzenia były wyjątkowo dramatyczne.[He was 88 years old at the time of his death, but the events preceding it were exceptionally dramatic.]
Terpander was an excellent harper, and while he was singing to his harp at Sparta, and opened his mouth wide, a waggish person that stood by threw a fig into it so unluckily, that he was strangled by it.
Heracl[t]ius, the Ephesian, fell into a dropsy, and was thereupon advised by the physicians to anoint himself all over with cow‑dung, and so to sit in the warm sun; his servant had left him alone, and the dogs, supposing him to be a wild beast, fell upon him, and killed him.
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(довідка)Polydamus, the famous wrestler, was forced by a tempest into a cave, which being ready to fall into ruins by the violent and sudden incursion of the waters, though others fled at the signs of the danger's approach, yet he alone would remain, as one that could bear up the whole heap and weight of the falling earth with his shoulders; but he found it above all human strength, and so was crushed in pieces by it.
Attila, King of the Huns, having married a wife in Hungary, and upon his wedding night surcharged himself with meat and drink; as he slept, his nose fell a bleeding, and through his mouth found the way into his throat, by which he was choked before any person was apprehensive of the danger.
Anno Dom. 830, Popiel the Second, King of Poland, careless of matters of state, gave himself over to all manner of dissoluteness, so that his Lords despised him, and call him the Polonian Sardanapalus. He feared therefore that they would set one of his kinsmen in his stead; so that, by the advice of his wife, whom he loved, he feigned himself sick, and sent for all his uncles, Princes of Pomerania (being twenty in number), to come and see him, whom (lying in his bed) he earnestly prayed, that, if he chanced to die, they would make choice of one of his sons to be King; which they willingly promised, in case the Lords of the kingdom would consent thereto. The Queen enticed them all, one by one, to drink a health to the King: as soon as they had done they took their leave. But they were scarce got out of the King's chamber, before they were seized with intolerable pains, and the corrosions of that poison wherewith the Queen had intermingled their draughts; and, in a short time, they all died. The Queen gave it out as a judgment of God upon them for having conspired the death of the King; and prosecuting this accusation, caused their bodies to be taken out of their graves, and cast into the lake Goplo. But, by a miraculous transformation, an innumerable number of rats and mice did rush out of those bodies; which, gathering together in crowds, went and assaulted the King, as he was with great jollity feasting in his palace. The guards endeavoured to drive them away with weapons and flames, but all in vain. The King, perplexed with this extraordinary danger, fled, with his wife and children, into a fortress that is yet to be seen in that lake of Goplo, over-against a city called Crusphitz, whither he was pursued with such a number of these creatures, that the land and the water were covered with them, and they cried and hissed most fearfully: they entered in at the windows of the fortress, having scaled the walls, and there they devoured the King, his wife, and children, alive, and left nothing of them remaining; by which means all the race of the Poland princes were utterly extinguished, and Pyast, a husbandman, at the last, was elected to succeed.
Pope Adrian IV. drinking a draught of spring-water, to refresh himself when he was thirsty, a fly, falling into the glass as he was drinking, choaked him.
Frederic the First, Emperor of Germany, bathing himself in the Cydnus, a river of Silesia, of a violent course, the swiftness of the stream tripped up his heels, and, not being able to recover himself, was suddenly drowned.
Charles II. King of Navarre, by a vicious life in his youth, fell into a paralytic distemper in his old age, that took away the use of his limbs. His physicians directed him to be sewed up in a sheet that had for a considerable time been steeped in strong distilled spirits, to recover the natural heat of his benumbed joints. The surgeon having sewed him up very close, and wanting a knife to cut off the thread, made use of a candle that was at hand to burn it off; but the flame from the thread reaching the sheet, the spirits wherewith it was wet immediately taking fire, burnt so vehemently, that no endeavours could extinguish the flame. Thus the miserable King lost his life in using the means to recover his health.
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(довідка)In the nineteenth year of Queen Elizabeth, at the assize at Oxford, July 1577, one Rowland Jenk[e]s, a Popish bookseller, for dispersing scandalous pamphlets defamatory to the Queen and State, was arraigned and condemned; but on the sudden there arose such a damp that almost all present were in danger of being smothered. The Jurors died that instant. Soon after died Sir Robert Bell, Lord Chief Baron; Sir Robert de Oly, Sir William Babington; Mr. de Oly, High Sheriff; Mr. Wearnam, Mr. Danvers, Mr. Fettiplace, Mr. Harcourt, Justices; Mr. Kerle, Mr. Nash, Mr. Greenwood, Mr. Foster, Gentlemen of good account; Serjeant Barham, an excellent pleader; three hundred persons presently sickened and died within the town, and two hundred more sickening died in other places; amongst all whom there was neither woman nor child.
Dr. Andrew Perne (though very facetious, was at last killed with a jest, as I have been credibly informed from excellent hands. He is taxed much for altering his religion four times in twelve years; from the last of King Henry the Eighth, to the first of Queen Elizabeth, a Papist, a Protestant, a Papist, a Protestant; but still Andrew Perne. It happened he was at Court with his pupil Archbishop Whitgift, in a rainy afternoon, when the Queen was resolved to ride abroad, contrary to the mind of the Ladies, who were on horseback, (coaches as yet being not common) to attend her. One Clod, the Queen's jester, was employed by the Courtiers to laugh the Queen out of so inconvenient a journey. "Heaven, saith he, "Madam dissuades you; this heavenly-minded man, Archbishop Whitgift, and earth, dissuades you; your fool Clod, such a lump of Clay as myself, dissuades you; and if neither will prevail with you, here is one that is neither heaven nor earth, but hangs betwixt both, Dr. Perne, and he also dissuades you." Hereupon the Queen and the Courtiers laughed heartily, whilst the Doctor looked sadly; and going over with his Grace to Lambeth, soon died.
The sole manned flight of the Natter was the first time in history that a piloted vehicle had been launched vertically under rocket propulsion.
An accident near Balvano in southern Italy in March 1944 caused death of 520 people making it the worst ever train disaster in the country. It is also regarded as one of the moret [sic] unusual rail accidents of the century.
Though precisely why or by who remains unclear, I struggle to see how, given the strangeness of the circumstances, many historians are so quick to rule out murder.
Spencer had a most unusual death, by turkey.
No matter what your political orientation, if you believe – or ever did believe – in the potential betterment of humanity, then you've got something to learn from the strange and tragic story of Leon Trotsky.
One of these bizarre cases was the death of Thomas Mantell, a captain of the US Air Force.
In a bizarre and morbid twist of fate, an extra named Jack Budlong was impaled by his own sword during the film's cavalry charge scene—the charge also took the lives of two other stuntmen.
Fatal accidents did occur as in the case of Arrhichion, but they were very rare...
The development of the aircraft he was "piloting" is one of the more bizarre stories of the last desperate days of the Third Reich...
As unlikely as this must sound, playing cards have reportedly been used as an instrument of death.
Three men were killed during the filming... The third, actor Jack Budlong, insisted on using a real saber to lead a cavalry charge under artillery fire. When an explosive charge sent him flying off his horse, he landed on his sword, impaling himself. No stranger to freak accidents himself, director Raoul Walsh had lost an eye in a car accident while shooting In Old Arizona in 1929.
Isadora Duncan's bizarre death was a brutal end to a controversial life.
A freak wartime train accident which killed more than 600 Italians is to be finally commemorated amid claims that it was covered up by British and American authorities...
The execution in itself was an unusual one...
The story of the ice axe is a convoluted one, befitting the extraordinary and macabre story of the Trotsky assassination.
We all learn about assassinations of presidents in history class but I was looking for something a bit more unusual, and I found it – the death of Zachary Taylor.
More than 500 Italians lost their lives last Friday in what was probably the most unusual and the most ghastly catastrophe in the history of world railroading.
Kptlt. Rolf Mützelburg died on 11 September 1942 in a freak accident.
By a peculiar accident James Doyle Jr., a lineman, was killed at Smartsville yesterday.
A freak accident was blamed today for the death of J. L. McDermott, 40, deputy sheriff.
Morris started keeping diaries when he first went to France in 1789, and continued journaling until his rather unusual manner of death in 1816 when he tried to remedy a blocked urethra using a piece of whalebone, leading to a deadly infection.
The impact of this unexpected disaster sent shock waves of hushed disbelief throughout Navy circles in the South Pacific.
Terpander was an excellent harper, and while he was singing to his harp at Sparta, and opened his mouth wide, a waggish person that stood by threw a fig into it so unluckily, that he was strangled by it.
Heracl[t]ius, the Ephesian, fell into a dropsy, and was thereupon advised by the physicians to anoint himself all over with cow‑dung, and so to sit in the warm sun; his servant had left him alone, and the dogs, supposing him to be a wild beast, fell upon him, and killed him.
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(довідка)Polydamus, the famous wrestler, was forced by a tempest into a cave, which being ready to fall into ruins by the violent and sudden incursion of the waters, though others fled at the signs of the danger's approach, yet he alone would remain, as one that could bear up the whole heap and weight of the falling earth with his shoulders; but he found it above all human strength, and so was crushed in pieces by it.
Attila, King of the Huns, having married a wife in Hungary, and upon his wedding night surcharged himself with meat and drink; as he slept, his nose fell a bleeding, and through his mouth found the way into his throat, by which he was choked before any person was apprehensive of the danger.
Anno Dom. 830, Popiel the Second, King of Poland, careless of matters of state, gave himself over to all manner of dissoluteness, so that his Lords despised him, and call him the Polonian Sardanapalus. He feared therefore that they would set one of his kinsmen in his stead; so that, by the advice of his wife, whom he loved, he feigned himself sick, and sent for all his uncles, Princes of Pomerania (being twenty in number), to come and see him, whom (lying in his bed) he earnestly prayed, that, if he chanced to die, they would make choice of one of his sons to be King; which they willingly promised, in case the Lords of the kingdom would consent thereto. The Queen enticed them all, one by one, to drink a health to the King: as soon as they had done they took their leave. But they were scarce got out of the King's chamber, before they were seized with intolerable pains, and the corrosions of that poison wherewith the Queen had intermingled their draughts; and, in a short time, they all died. The Queen gave it out as a judgment of God upon them for having conspired the death of the King; and prosecuting this accusation, caused their bodies to be taken out of their graves, and cast into the lake Goplo. But, by a miraculous transformation, an innumerable number of rats and mice did rush out of those bodies; which, gathering together in crowds, went and assaulted the King, as he was with great jollity feasting in his palace. The guards endeavoured to drive them away with weapons and flames, but all in vain. The King, perplexed with this extraordinary danger, fled, with his wife and children, into a fortress that is yet to be seen in that lake of Goplo, over-against a city called Crusphitz, whither he was pursued with such a number of these creatures, that the land and the water were covered with them, and they cried and hissed most fearfully: they entered in at the windows of the fortress, having scaled the walls, and there they devoured the King, his wife, and children, alive, and left nothing of them remaining; by which means all the race of the Poland princes were utterly extinguished, and Pyast, a husbandman, at the last, was elected to succeed.
Pope Adrian IV. drinking a draught of spring-water, to refresh himself when he was thirsty, a fly, falling into the glass as he was drinking, choaked him.
Frederic the First, Emperor of Germany, bathing himself in the Cydnus, a river of Silesia, of a violent course, the swiftness of the stream tripped up his heels, and, not being able to recover himself, was suddenly drowned.
Charles II. King of Navarre, by a vicious life in his youth, fell into a paralytic distemper in his old age, that took away the use of his limbs. His physicians directed him to be sewed up in a sheet that had for a considerable time been steeped in strong distilled spirits, to recover the natural heat of his benumbed joints. The surgeon having sewed him up very close, and wanting a knife to cut off the thread, made use of a candle that was at hand to burn it off; but the flame from the thread reaching the sheet, the spirits wherewith it was wet immediately taking fire, burnt so vehemently, that no endeavours could extinguish the flame. Thus the miserable King lost his life in using the means to recover his health.
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(довідка)In the nineteenth year of Queen Elizabeth, at the assize at Oxford, July 1577, one Rowland Jenk[e]s, a Popish bookseller, for dispersing scandalous pamphlets defamatory to the Queen and State, was arraigned and condemned; but on the sudden there arose such a damp that almost all present were in danger of being smothered. The Jurors died that instant. Soon after died Sir Robert Bell, Lord Chief Baron; Sir Robert de Oly, Sir William Babington; Mr. de Oly, High Sheriff; Mr. Wearnam, Mr. Danvers, Mr. Fettiplace, Mr. Harcourt, Justices; Mr. Kerle, Mr. Nash, Mr. Greenwood, Mr. Foster, Gentlemen of good account; Serjeant Barham, an excellent pleader; three hundred persons presently sickened and died within the town, and two hundred more sickening died in other places; amongst all whom there was neither woman nor child.
Dr. Andrew Perne (though very facetious, was at last killed with a jest, as I have been credibly informed from excellent hands. He is taxed much for altering his religion four times in twelve years; from the last of King Henry the Eighth, to the first of Queen Elizabeth, a Papist, a Protestant, a Papist, a Protestant; but still Andrew Perne. It happened he was at Court with his pupil Archbishop Whitgift, in a rainy afternoon, when the Queen was resolved to ride abroad, contrary to the mind of the Ladies, who were on horseback, (coaches as yet being not common) to attend her. One Clod, the Queen's jester, was employed by the Courtiers to laugh the Queen out of so inconvenient a journey. "Heaven, saith he, "Madam dissuades you; this heavenly-minded man, Archbishop Whitgift, and earth, dissuades you; your fool Clod, such a lump of Clay as myself, dissuades you; and if neither will prevail with you, here is one that is neither heaven nor earth, but hangs betwixt both, Dr. Perne, and he also dissuades you." Hereupon the Queen and the Courtiers laughed heartily, whilst the Doctor looked sadly; and going over with his Grace to Lambeth, soon died.
At the time of Tycho's death, in 1601, the blame fell on his failure to relieve himself while drinking profusely at the banquet, supposedly injuring his bladder and making him unable to urinate.
Knud R. Joergensen wrote in 1995 about the 1791 case of composer Franz Kotzwara who enlisted the help of a London prostitute, Susannah Hill, to assist him with his bizarre wish. After paying Hill two shillings, Kotzwara asked her to cut off his genitalia – a request the prostitute refused. Yet, Hill did agree to fulfill Kotzwara's sexual wish of strangling himself with a rope. It was the first documented case of death by sexual strangulation.[Архівовано 2006-01-26 у Wayback Machine.]
Here is a newspaper account of the unusual death of Clement Vallandigham, a leader of the Copperhead Democrats during the Civil War.
The Earl of Carnarvon died peacefully at 2 o'clock this morning. He was conscious almost to the end.
Isadora Duncan's bizarre death was a brutal end to a controversial life.
What happened next led ultimately to his gruesome death 4 years later and to his place as a central character in a bizarre episode in U.S. medicine.
Three men were killed during the filming... The third, actor Jack Budlong, insisted on using a real saber to lead a cavalry charge under artillery fire. When an explosive charge sent him flying off his horse, he landed on his sword, impaling himself. No stranger to freak accidents himself, director Raoul Walsh had lost an eye in a car accident while shooting In Old Arizona in 1929.
The impact of this unexpected disaster sent shock waves of hushed disbelief throughout Navy circles in the South Pacific.
An incident on the set of a 1958 edition of Armchair Theatre illustrates the perverse extremes of professionalism that television actors were expected to exhibit.
Terpander was an excellent harper, and while he was singing to his harp at Sparta, and opened his mouth wide, a waggish person that stood by threw a fig into it so unluckily, that he was strangled by it.
Heracl[t]ius, the Ephesian, fell into a dropsy, and was thereupon advised by the physicians to anoint himself all over with cow‑dung, and so to sit in the warm sun; his servant had left him alone, and the dogs, supposing him to be a wild beast, fell upon him, and killed him.
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(довідка)Polydamus, the famous wrestler, was forced by a tempest into a cave, which being ready to fall into ruins by the violent and sudden incursion of the waters, though others fled at the signs of the danger's approach, yet he alone would remain, as one that could bear up the whole heap and weight of the falling earth with his shoulders; but he found it above all human strength, and so was crushed in pieces by it.
Attila, King of the Huns, having married a wife in Hungary, and upon his wedding night surcharged himself with meat and drink; as he slept, his nose fell a bleeding, and through his mouth found the way into his throat, by which he was choked before any person was apprehensive of the danger.
Anno Dom. 830, Popiel the Second, King of Poland, careless of matters of state, gave himself over to all manner of dissoluteness, so that his Lords despised him, and call him the Polonian Sardanapalus. He feared therefore that they would set one of his kinsmen in his stead; so that, by the advice of his wife, whom he loved, he feigned himself sick, and sent for all his uncles, Princes of Pomerania (being twenty in number), to come and see him, whom (lying in his bed) he earnestly prayed, that, if he chanced to die, they would make choice of one of his sons to be King; which they willingly promised, in case the Lords of the kingdom would consent thereto. The Queen enticed them all, one by one, to drink a health to the King: as soon as they had done they took their leave. But they were scarce got out of the King's chamber, before they were seized with intolerable pains, and the corrosions of that poison wherewith the Queen had intermingled their draughts; and, in a short time, they all died. The Queen gave it out as a judgment of God upon them for having conspired the death of the King; and prosecuting this accusation, caused their bodies to be taken out of their graves, and cast into the lake Goplo. But, by a miraculous transformation, an innumerable number of rats and mice did rush out of those bodies; which, gathering together in crowds, went and assaulted the King, as he was with great jollity feasting in his palace. The guards endeavoured to drive them away with weapons and flames, but all in vain. The King, perplexed with this extraordinary danger, fled, with his wife and children, into a fortress that is yet to be seen in that lake of Goplo, over-against a city called Crusphitz, whither he was pursued with such a number of these creatures, that the land and the water were covered with them, and they cried and hissed most fearfully: they entered in at the windows of the fortress, having scaled the walls, and there they devoured the King, his wife, and children, alive, and left nothing of them remaining; by which means all the race of the Poland princes were utterly extinguished, and Pyast, a husbandman, at the last, was elected to succeed.
Pope Adrian IV. drinking a draught of spring-water, to refresh himself when he was thirsty, a fly, falling into the glass as he was drinking, choaked him.
Frederic the First, Emperor of Germany, bathing himself in the Cydnus, a river of Silesia, of a violent course, the swiftness of the stream tripped up his heels, and, not being able to recover himself, was suddenly drowned.
Charles II. King of Navarre, by a vicious life in his youth, fell into a paralytic distemper in his old age, that took away the use of his limbs. His physicians directed him to be sewed up in a sheet that had for a considerable time been steeped in strong distilled spirits, to recover the natural heat of his benumbed joints. The surgeon having sewed him up very close, and wanting a knife to cut off the thread, made use of a candle that was at hand to burn it off; but the flame from the thread reaching the sheet, the spirits wherewith it was wet immediately taking fire, burnt so vehemently, that no endeavours could extinguish the flame. Thus the miserable King lost his life in using the means to recover his health.
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(довідка)In the nineteenth year of Queen Elizabeth, at the assize at Oxford, July 1577, one Rowland Jenk[e]s, a Popish bookseller, for dispersing scandalous pamphlets defamatory to the Queen and State, was arraigned and condemned; but on the sudden there arose such a damp that almost all present were in danger of being smothered. The Jurors died that instant. Soon after died Sir Robert Bell, Lord Chief Baron; Sir Robert de Oly, Sir William Babington; Mr. de Oly, High Sheriff; Mr. Wearnam, Mr. Danvers, Mr. Fettiplace, Mr. Harcourt, Justices; Mr. Kerle, Mr. Nash, Mr. Greenwood, Mr. Foster, Gentlemen of good account; Serjeant Barham, an excellent pleader; three hundred persons presently sickened and died within the town, and two hundred more sickening died in other places; amongst all whom there was neither woman nor child.
Dr. Andrew Perne (though very facetious, was at last killed with a jest, as I have been credibly informed from excellent hands. He is taxed much for altering his religion four times in twelve years; from the last of King Henry the Eighth, to the first of Queen Elizabeth, a Papist, a Protestant, a Papist, a Protestant; but still Andrew Perne. It happened he was at Court with his pupil Archbishop Whitgift, in a rainy afternoon, when the Queen was resolved to ride abroad, contrary to the mind of the Ladies, who were on horseback, (coaches as yet being not common) to attend her. One Clod, the Queen's jester, was employed by the Courtiers to laugh the Queen out of so inconvenient a journey. "Heaven, saith he, "Madam dissuades you; this heavenly-minded man, Archbishop Whitgift, and earth, dissuades you; your fool Clod, such a lump of Clay as myself, dissuades you; and if neither will prevail with you, here is one that is neither heaven nor earth, but hangs betwixt both, Dr. Perne, and he also dissuades you." Hereupon the Queen and the Courtiers laughed heartily, whilst the Doctor looked sadly; and going over with his Grace to Lambeth, soon died.
Leszczyński died on 23 February 1766 due to the complications that followed an unfortunate accident.