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  2. List of unusual deaths - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Death of Brian Wells - Wikipedia

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    On August 28, 2003, pizza delivery man Brian Douglas Wells robbed a PNC Bank near his hometown of Erie, Pennsylvania, United States. Upon being apprehended by police, Wells died when an explosive collar locked to his neck detonated. The FBI investigation into his death uncovered a complex plot described as "one of the most complicated and ...

  4. Roswell incident - Wikipedia

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    Roswell incident. /  33.95028°N 105.31417°W  / 33.95028; -105.31417. The Roswell incident is a collection of events and myths surrounding the 1947 crash of a United States Army Air Forces balloon near Roswell, New Mexico. Operated from the nearby Alamogordo Army Air Field and part of the top secret Project Mogul, the balloon was ...

  5. Dyatlov Pass incident - Wikipedia

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    The Dyatlov Pass incident ( Russian: гибель тургруппы Дятлова, romanized : gibel turgruppy Dyatlova, lit. 'Death of the Dyatlov Hiking Group') is an event in which nine Soviet hikers died in the northern Ural Mountains between February 1 and 2, 1959, under uncertain circumstances. The experienced trekking group from the ...

  6. Travis (chimpanzee) - Wikipedia

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    Travis (October 21, 1995 – February 16, 2009) was a male chimpanzee who was raised by and lived with a human family. On February 16, 2009, he attacked and mauled his owner Sandra Herold's friend, Charla Nash, in Stamford, Connecticut, blinding her, severing several body parts, and lacerating her face, before he was shot and killed by responding Officer Frank Chiafari.

  7. Death of Gloria Ramirez - Wikipedia

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    Death of Gloria Ramirez. Gloria Cecilia Ramirez (January 11, 1963 – February 19, 1994) [1] was an American woman from Riverside, California, who was dubbed the Toxic Lady or the Toxic Woman by the media when several hospital workers became ill after airborne exposure to her body and blood. Ramirez had been admitted to the emergency room ...

  8. Death of Rey Rivera - Wikipedia

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    Death of Rey Rivera. /  39.302083°N 76.615500°W  / 39.302083; -76.615500. The body of Rey Rivera was found on May 24, 2006, inside the historic Belvedere Hotel in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, United States. [5] Although the event was ruled a probable suicide by the Baltimore Police Department, the circumstances ...

  9. Philadelphia Experiment - Wikipedia

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    The Philadelphia Experiment was an alleged event claimed to have been witnessed by an ex- merchant mariner named Carl M. Allen at the United States Navy's Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, sometime around October 28, 1943. Allen described an experiment where the U.S. Navy attempted to make a destroyer ...

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