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4 years 2 months [1] Alan Kurdi (born Alan Shenu ), initially reported as Aylan Kurdi, [2] [3] was a two-year-old Syrian boy (initially reported as having been three years old) of Kurdish ethnic background [4] whose image made global headlines after he drowned on 2 September 2015 in the Mediterranean Sea along with his mother and brother.
Other reference works contend the cross was "a post with a cross-beam" (Theological Dictionary of the New Testament), "the form usually seen in pictures, the crux immissa (Latin cross †), ... in which the upright beam projects above the shorter crosspiece" (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia); and "most likely the crux immissa (the traditional † depiction) or the crux commissa (a T ...
The death of Aeschylus, killed by a turtle dropped onto his head by a falcon, illustrated in the 15th-century Florentine Picture-Chronicle by Baccio Baldini. This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources.
The Zong massacre was a mass killing of more than 130 enslaved African people by the crew of the British slave ship Zong on and in the days following 29 November 1781. [a] The William Gregson slave-trading syndicate, based in Liverpool, owned the ship as part of the Atlantic slave trade. As was common business practice, they had taken out ...
Homicide. Body discovered. 13–15 January, 2020 (various remains) Known for. Murder victim. Keane Mulready-Woods of Drogheda, County Louth, was an Irish teenager who disappeared on 12 January 2020, and whose dismembered body was then found in Coolock, County Dublin. More of his remains were found in Drumcondra in a burnt out car the following ...
Jim Morrison. James Douglas Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971) was an American singer, songwriter and poet who was the lead vocalist and primary lyricist of the rock band the Doors. Due to his energetic persona, poetic lyrics, distinctive voice, erratic and unpredictable performances, along with the dramatic circumstances surrounding ...
Nora Wilfred. Cardiff. Wilfred, 33, was found dead on 4 December 1972, her body having been dumped on wasteland off Pugsley Lane, Herbert Street, in Butetown, Cardiff. A prostitute at the time of her death, Wilfred had been stabbed multiple times and some of her clothing, along with her handbag, was missing.
¡Alarma!'s final issue was published on February 17, 2014, one month before the death of its editor-in-chief Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Vázquez due to a heart attack. In popular culture. The cover art of Matando Güeros, the first album by American extreme metal band Brujeria, is a photo of a severed head taken from an issue of ¡Alarma!.