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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 [1]. This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources.
The events have been characterized as a genocide due to the intentions of its perpetrators to destroy the Osage nation. [254][255][256][257][258] Estimates vary widely, with 10% of 591 full-blood Osage being killed with the lowest estimate. [259] Armenian genocide. Ottoman Empire (now Turkey, Syria, and Iraq) 1915.
e. Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people [a] in whole or in part. The term was coined in 1944 by Raphael Lemkin. It is defined in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) of 1948 as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national ...
For the past 100 years, the closing ceremony has involved raising of the International Olympic Committee flag, the flag of the host country, and the flag of the next host country. The 1924 games ...
List of natural disasters by death toll. Global multihazard mortality risks and distribution (2005) for cyclones, drought, earthquakes, floods, landslides, and volcanoes (excluding heat waves, snowstorms, and other deadly hazards). A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, major collateral damage, or loss of life ...
Lists of school shootings in the United States. Lists of school shootings in the United States include: List of school shootings in the United States (before 2000) List of school shootings in the United States (2000–present) List of school shootings in the United States by death toll.
80–100 [18] 1852 Gundagai flood Australia: 1852 80+ 2014 Southeast Europe floods: Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia: 2014 80 [19] 1988 Sudan floods: Sudan: 1988 80 Failure of Laurel Run Dam and flash flooding, Johnstown, Pennsylvania: United States: 1977 78 Austin Dam failure United States: 1911 77+ 2019 Iran floods: Iran: 2019 73
In October 1970, the Bhola cyclone struck what is now Bangladesh and killed at least 300,000 people. There have been 15 tropical cyclones in the 21st century so far with a death toll of at least 1,000, of which the deadliest was Cyclone Nargis, with at least 138,373 deaths when it struck Myanmar. In recent years, the deadliest Atlantic ...