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- ...that the Pardoner's Prologue and Tale in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is about three revellers who set out to kill Death?
- ...that Swedish adventurer Saloman Andrée died while trying to reach the North Pole by hot air balloon in his ill-fated Arctic balloon expedition?
- ...that many Mexicans pray to the uncanonized saint figure known as Santa Muerte, a personification of Death?
- ...that the Sedlec Ossuary is a chapel decorated with the bones of 40,000 people?
- ...that Ars moriendi ("The Art of Dying") was a popular 15th century text on the proper etiquette of how to die?
- ...that the only remaining instance of active use of the death penalty in Europe is in Belarus?
- ...that the 1970 Ancash earthquake and the landslide that followed killed at least 47,194 people and was the worst natural disaster ever recorded in the history of Peru?
- ...that in the name of science, American nurse Clara Maass volunteered to be bitten by yellow fever-carrying mosquitoes seven times, caught the disease twice, and ultimately died from it?
- ...that the recent Capitol Hill massacre is regarded as the worst mass-killing in Seattle since the 1983 Wah Mee Massacre?
- ...that no fewer than a dozen people from western countries have been killed by crocodiles since 1990?
- ...that Kevin O'Halloran, a swimming gold medallist at the 1956 Summer Olympics, died after accidentally tripping and shooting himself?
- ...that the catastrophe was the final resolution of Ancient Greek tragedies, in which one or more main characters usually died?
- ...that American sculptor Luis Jiménez, known for his large Southwestern and Hispanic polychromed fiberglass sculptures, was killed when a large piece of his work fell on him?
- ...that there have been at least fifteen deaths at the Welsh cave Porth yr Ogof in the last twenty years, all but one in the seven-metre-deep Resurgence Pool?
- ...that Easter Posey was the first American woman to be killed in the line of duty in World War II?
- ... that deaths caused by falling billboards in Metro Manila during Typhoon Xangsane (Milenyo) prompted a renewed push by Philippine legislators for a ban on billboard advertising?
- ...that in 1994, a wild Bottlenose dolphin in Brazil named Tião killed one man and seriously injured a second after they had been harassing the animal?
- ...that guards on the mail coach had to remain outside for the entire journey and sometimes froze to death?
- ... that The Meaning of Life series featured filmmaker Neil Jordan's account of having met his dead father on an aeroplane?
- ... that Martina Navratilova is credited as a corpse in Single-Handed, a drama series in which the main character has sexual intercourse with his own sister?
- ... that Death Risk Rankings, nicknamed the "death calculator", allows users to view their chance of dying of sixty-six causes of death, such as murder, in a twelve-month span?
- ...that Emil Calmanovici, the main financial backer of the Romanian Communist Party in the 1940s, was later imprisoned by Communist authorities and died as a result of force-feeding?
- ...that the exuberant "Smiling Faces" figurines from the Remojadas archaeological site (pictured) are likely related to the local cult of the dead?
- ...that somewhere between 25–33% of Icelanders living in Iceland died due to the 1783 eruption of Laki, and the subsequent famine?
- ...that 18% of all deaths occurring in automobile accidents are the result of traumatic aortic ruptures?
- ...that when John Torrington's corpse was exhumed 138 years after his death, it was almost perfectly preserved?
- ...that viable sperm has been extracted from cadavers up to 36 hours after the donor's death?
- ...that the 1922 Swatow Typhoon killed 50,000 people in Swatow (now Shantou, China), out of a total population of 65,000?
- ...that Oscar the Cat was featured in the New England Journal of Medicine for his purported ability to predict the impending death of the terminally ill?
- ...that in Puerto Rico alone, about two people die and 25 more are injured each year from celebratory gunfire?
- ...that the only person killed in the Buffalo Grove massacre was buried by the group that would be killed during the following day's St. Vrain massacre?
- ...that dead bodies in Britain were often transported along special corpse roads?
- ...that from 1985 through 2004, about seventy-five honey collectors from Gosaba and the surrounding areas of West Bengal were killed by tigers in the forests of Sundarbans, but none since?
- ...that a person must be deemed competent to receive the death penalty in order to be executed, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Ford v. Wainwright?
- ...that apart from blowflies, some flesh-eating beetles can also be used by forensic entomologists in determining the time of death of a corpse?
- ...that there was an element of eroticism concerning death in Viking culture, and that the dead were often described as being received by a lady?
- ...that over 16,000 aborted fetuses were found in the Los Angeles fetus disposal scandal in 1982?
- ...that the Sumerian "river of paradise", the Hubur, derived partly from real geography before becoming a demonic fantasy?
- ...that Dedi was an ancient Egyptian magician who was said to be capable of resurrecting decapitated beings?
- ...that the London Necropolis Railway was used to relocate the exhumed contents of at least 21 London graveyards to Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey?
- ...that Mexican-American singer-songwriter Selena was murdered by an employee who (falsely) claimed she was raped and needed the singer's help?
- ...that after the science fiction anthology Machine of Death reached No. 1 on the Amazon.com bestseller list instead of his own book, Fox News commentator Glenn Beck denounced it as part of a liberal "culture of death"?
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