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  2. Reta Mays - Wikipedia

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    Reta Phyllis Mays (born June 16, 1975) [2] is an American serial killer who murdered at least seven elderly military veterans over a span of eleven months, between July 2017 and June 2018, by injecting them with lethal doses of insulin while she was employed as a nursing assistant at the Louis A. Johnson Veterans Medical Center, in Clarksburg, West Virginia.

  3. List of unusual deaths - Wikipedia

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    Over 6,000 people died from the poison and most of the victims were paralyzed from the effects. [227] [228] Jesse William Lazear: 25 September 1900: The 34-year-old American physician was convinced that mosquitoes were carriers for yellow fever. He allowed himself to be bitten by multiple mosquitoes and died days later from the disease. [19] [229]

  4. History of Barbados - Wikipedia

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    The island was briefly claimed by the Spanish Empire who saw trees with a beard like feature (hence the name Barbados), and then by Portugal from 1532 to 1620. The island was an English and later a British colony from 1625 until 1966. Sugar cane cultivation in Barbados began in the 1640s, which saw the increasing importation of black slaves ...

  5. Casualties of the September 11 attacks - Wikipedia

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    The September 11 attacks were the deadliest terrorist attacks in human history, causing the deaths of 2,996 people, including 2,977 victims and 19 hijackers who committed murder–suicide. Thousands [a] more were injured, [3][4] and long-term health effects have arisen as a consequence of the attacks. New York City took the brunt of the death ...

  6. List of suicides - Wikipedia

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    The following people died by suicide.This includes suicides effected under duress and excludes deaths by accident or misadventure. People who may or may not have died by their own hand, or whose intention to die is disputed, but who are widely believed to have deliberately killed themselves, may be listed.

  7. Nikki Catsouras photographs controversy - Wikipedia

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    The Nikki Catsouras photographs controversy concerns the leaked photographs of Nicole "Nikki" Catsouras (March 4, 1988 – October 31, 2006), who died at age 18 in a high-speed car crash in Lake Forest, California, after losing control of her father's Porsche 911 Carrera and colliding with a toll booth. Photographs of Catsouras' badly ...

  8. List of fatal bear attacks in North America - Wikipedia

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    According to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Miller's death is the first confirmed fatal attack by a black bear in California. [ 9 ][ 10 ][ 11 ] Steven Jackson, 66, male. June 16, 2023. Wild.

  9. Tom Adams (politician) - Wikipedia

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    Adams died of a heart attack at Ilaro Court, the Prime Minister's official residence, on March 11, 1985. He was the first sitting Prime Minister of Barbados to die in office. [3] He was buried in Bridgetown, Barbados, at the churchyard of the Cathedral Church of Saint Michael and All Angels on Saint Michael's Row. [4]