Tuesday, February 20, 2007

So Much Death...


Here I have found a delightfully morbid Wikipedia entry detailing a number of strange deaths throughout history. Some of the Highlights Include:

458 BC: The Greek playwright Aeschylus was killed when an eagle dropped a live and apparently very savage tortoise on him, mistaking his bald head for a stone.

207 BC: Chrysippus, a Greek stoic philosopher, is believed to have died of laughter after watching his drunken donkey attempt to eat figs.

1884: Allan Pinkerton, detective, died of gangrene resulting from having bitten his tongue after stumbling on the sidewalk.

1953: Frank Hayes, jockey, suffered a heart attack during a horse race. The horse, Sweet Kiss, went on to finish first, making Hayes the only deceased jockey to win a race.

1990: George Allen, an American football coach, died a month after some of his players dumped a Gatorade bucket on him following a victory (as it is tradition in American Football), resulting in pneumonia.

The rest of them, including those already listed can be found here.

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