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Michael Malloy - Tougher than your mum.
Marino owned a speakeasy and gave Malloy unlimited credit, thinking Malloy would abuse it and drink himself to death. Although Malloy drank for a majority of his waking day, it did not kill him. To remedy this, antifreeze was substituted for liquor, but still, Malloy would drink until he passed out, wake up, and come back for more. Antifreeze was substituted with turpentine, followed by horse liniment, and finally mixed in rat poison. Still, Malloy lived.
The group then tried raw oysters soaked in wood alcohol. This idea apparently came from Pasqua, who saw a man die after eating oysters with whiskey.Then came a sandwich of spoiled sardines mixed with poison and carpet tacks.
When that failed, they decided that it was unlikely that anything Malloy ingested was going to kill him, so the Murder Trust decided to freeze him to death. On a night when the temperature reached −14 °F (−26 °C), Malloy drank until he passed out, was carried to a park, dumped in the snow, and had five gallons (19 L) of water poured on his bare chest. Nevertheless, Malloy reappeared the following day for his drink. The next attempt on his life came when they hit him with Green's taxi, moving at 45 miles per hour (72 km/h). This put Malloy in the hospital for three weeks with broken bones. The gang presumed he was dead but was unable to collect the policy on him. When he again appeared at the bar, they decided on one last approach.
On February 22, after he passed out for the night, they took him to Murphy's room, put a hose in his mouth that was connected to the gas jet, and turned it on. This finally killed Malloy, death occurring within an hour.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Malloy
Marino owned a speakeasy and gave Malloy unlimited credit, thinking Malloy would abuse it and drink himself to death. Although Malloy drank for a majority of his waking day, it did not kill him. To remedy this, antifreeze was substituted for liquor, but still, Malloy would drink until he passed out, wake up, and come back for more. Antifreeze was substituted with turpentine, followed by horse liniment, and finally mixed in rat poison. Still, Malloy lived.
The group then tried raw oysters soaked in wood alcohol. This idea apparently came from Pasqua, who saw a man die after eating oysters with whiskey.Then came a sandwich of spoiled sardines mixed with poison and carpet tacks.
When that failed, they decided that it was unlikely that anything Malloy ingested was going to kill him, so the Murder Trust decided to freeze him to death. On a night when the temperature reached −14 °F (−26 °C), Malloy drank until he passed out, was carried to a park, dumped in the snow, and had five gallons (19 L) of water poured on his bare chest. Nevertheless, Malloy reappeared the following day for his drink. The next attempt on his life came when they hit him with Green's taxi, moving at 45 miles per hour (72 km/h). This put Malloy in the hospital for three weeks with broken bones. The gang presumed he was dead but was unable to collect the policy on him. When he again appeared at the bar, they decided on one last approach.
On February 22, after he passed out for the night, they took him to Murphy's room, put a hose in his mouth that was connected to the gas jet, and turned it on. This finally killed Malloy, death occurring within an hour.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Malloy
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Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared while swimming off the coast of Victoria.
Many Australians nearly died from an overdose of irony soon after that tragedy when they renamed the Malvern Swim Centre to:
Many Australians nearly died from an overdose of irony soon after that tragedy when they renamed the Malvern Swim Centre to:
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Lohrenswald
世界的 bottom ranked physicist
Descartes was like allowed to sleep in late because he was so great and famous, so for most of his life he never got up before 12 o'clock IIRC
But then he started to work for queen Christina of Sweden, who was a busy woman and could only see him at like 5 o'clock in the morning
The change of habits and cold temperature killed Descartes relatively soon
But then he started to work for queen Christina of Sweden, who was a busy woman and could only see him at like 5 o'clock in the morning
The change of habits and cold temperature killed Descartes relatively soon
Georgios Maniakes, a huge man (like the Mountain from GoT) who fought as head of the byzantine armies recapturing most of Sicily from the arabs in the early 11th century (Harald of the sagas, later king of Norway, regarded Maniakes as a monstrously strong warrior), later got the empire declaring war on him due to a nasty affair with some noble which he killed in an even nastier way. In the ensuing civil war, Maniakes had (iirc easily) defeated the army sent by the emperor to face him, near Thessalonike. The emperor originally offered a condominium (!) with Maniakes, obviously cause he thought there would be no chance to defeat him, and sent a eunuch as the head of the army...!
Well, Maniakes won the battle, but was so reckless that he managed to get arrowed down while pursuing the other side, so his own side dissolved.
Would have been interesting to see what would have happened with him as emperor. Probably he'd be a second Basil II.
Well, Maniakes won the battle, but was so reckless that he managed to get arrowed down while pursuing the other side, so his own side dissolved.
Would have been interesting to see what would have happened with him as emperor. Probably he'd be a second Basil II.
Basil II had the knack of getting on with people, unlike this Maniakes fellow.
There is only one Buffy the vampire slayer, and only one Basil the bulgar slayer
That said, his mother, empress Theophano, apparently was far worse than Olympias. She even married both emperors after her husbant, Nikephoros Phokas ("White death of the Saracens") and Ioannes Tzimiskes, who was her own cousin anyway and part of the plotters who killed Phokas.
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First incident I thought of was in Erfurt, Germany in 1183 when the Emperor was holding court and the floor collapsed dumping over a hundred people into the cesspit beneath the hall, a bunch of knights and nobles drowned in sewage and the Emperor himself only survived by jumping out of a window. That was pretty nasty.
This one's not particularly weird, but the effects were devasting. During the Battle of Towton in March 1461, 28,000 soldiers died in a single day, more than the entire British casualties on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, and roughly equal to 1% of the entire English population. 
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How about Union General John Sedgwick? His famous last words were, :"They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."
...which should be enough to conclude the casualty figure is clearly exaggerated.roughly equal to 1% of the entire English population.
1% of population lost in a massive battle is not that unlikely. Usually it takes more battles, but then again usually in wars nations lose upwards of 5% of their population.
Then again there is Paraguay, which apparently lost at least 30% in the war of the triple alliance...
Then again there is Paraguay, which apparently lost at least 30% in the war of the triple alliance...
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