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  List of unusual deaths - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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He died in a Washington, D.C. hospital early the next morning, his last words being "Lord, help my poor soul." While the official cause of death was listed as "congestion of the brain", the actual cause for his death has been a matter of debate ever since.
Lists of people by cause of death
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_people_who_died_with_tortoises_on_their_heads   (3708 words)

  
 Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of unusual deaths - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This page has grown amazingly since it was originally named "List of people who died with tortoises on their heads".
I believe the list is well-sourced since it makes extensive use of links to our own articles, and those that don't have existing articles provide external reference links.
This subject area is not one like List of elements by name, where sources routinely treat the list's components together.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_list_candidates/List_of_unusual_deaths   (1714 words)

  
 Two-Headed Creatures - Pravda.Ru
If one head sees the danger and another one don't, their two brains start 'arguing' which decision to take while the animal got caught with a predator who can have two heads as well as the one fro dinner.
The terrarium staff had to prevent the snake from choking if its both heads swallow the food to the gullet: food such as a mouse should be given to the one head first and a moment later to another head.
Heads can be planted on every body spot if one remembers the experiment when the poor mouse had additional ear planted on its back and the fly had eyes all over, even on its legs and wings.
english.pravda.ru /science/19/94/377/11400_anomaly.html   (1712 words)

  
 Revolution #029, January 8, 2006, posted at revcom.us
But during their rise it was very controversial for people to correctly identify the direction and the logic of society as it became dominated by the Nazis, a once-fringe group of extremists.
Their first years of terror were aimed at annihilating the communists (whom they correctly saw as a political threat) and other political dissidents and at forcing Jews out of public life.
People lifted their heads and became tuned in to what was happening in society overall.
www.rwor.org /quick/029en.htm   (12657 words)

  
 Muslim Clerics: The Jews Are the Descendants of Apes, Pigs, And Other Animals
Jews who were transformed into animals are largely identified by Koranic commentary as residents of the village of Iliya,[30] situated on the Red Sea coast.
He describes a woman from among the sons of Israel who believed in Allah and fought a holy war against the king of the sons of Israel "for the religion of Allah." Three times she waged war, with people who believed in her and followed her, and three times she was defeated.
Those who believe that today's animals are the offspring of the sons of Israel base their belief on some reliable traditions from the Prophet Muhammad, in which he warned against eating particular animals out of fear that they were originally the sons of Israel.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/History/memrireport.html   (5921 words)

  
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Their efforts had begun to succeed as evident, among other things, from the fact that a number of the movement’s activists were able to attend a human rights seminar in Switzerland with financial support from the World Council of Churches, he said.
Sementara di Jakarta dilaporkan Dephutbun perlu menekankan perombakan sistem yang ada di departemennya, untuk meningkatkan kinerjanya terutama menangani kasus KKN, menyusul akan dilakukan pergantian pejabat eselon satu dalam waktu dekat.
Sementara itu Menhutbun Nurmahmudi Ismail mengatakan akan ada pergantian pejabat di departemen yang dipimpinnya, kecuali Dirjen Perkebunan yang akan tetap dijabat oleh Agus Pakpahan.
www.irja.org /archives/2001.txt   (17806 words)

  
 Thurston's World - Interesting Foreign People   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It is not only the gracefulness of their forms or the novel richness of their colours, it is the numberless and confused associations that rush together on the mind, and produce the effect.
Their present residence is under a few bushes by a ledge of rock: it is no ways sufficient to keep out rain or wind; and now in the middle of summer it daily rains and as yet each day there has been some sleet.
Its head, with its sharp snout, was bowed very low, pushed down almost between its forelegs in the effort to crowd as close as possible to the wood and dig its claws as deep as possible under it.
www.healdthurston.com /ForeignPeople.htm   (14700 words)

  
 Aaron Fuegi's Fortunes page
They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them.
People who are probably nowhere near as successful as he is now.
People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get _____there.
scv.bu.edu /~aarondf/fortunes.html   (16641 words)

  
 BIO 2000 Dispatches   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
He was wading into the vexed debate with anti-biotech activists over their demands for the mandatory labelling of crops improved by biotechnology.
Serageldin is now calling for a "doubly Green Revolution" to feed the additional 2 billion people who will share the earth with us in the next 20 years and the use of agricultural biotechnology is central to achieving that goal.
Seven of 8 experimental mice regained the ability to walk with their hind legs and regained sensation in their hindquarters.
reason.com /bi/bio2000.html   (4340 words)

  
 Sample text for Library of Congress control number 2003271157
There are psychologists at NASA who study the emotional health of those in orbit.
In a long four-day near miss with death, the crew had to cancel their lunar landing when their craft malfunctioned.
When atoms are broken, their innermost parts -- the nuclei -- freely bounce around and run into each other, causing nuclear reactions.
www.loc.gov /catdir/samples/simon041/2003271157.html   (4932 words)

  
 ArtsJournal Music: Daily Arts News
"Those who have fought to follow the near-interminable struggle for control of the festival among the pugnacious descendants of the master (as some zealots still call Richard Wagner) may gape to learn that Wolfgang is still able to laugh at all." But a new Wolfgang-led power base may be forming...
Vonk, who is suffering from a rare form of Lou Gehrig's Disease, had to leave the podium during a concert with the SLSO last winter, and subsequently cancelled a number of engagements elsewhere.
And it's not just the heads of the opera and theatre establishment who are craning their necks to see how it's done.
www.artsjournal.com /music/music0402.shtml   (9694 words)

  
 NANFA Mailing List Archive: NANFA-- Why not to let captives go - long   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
dies because it is not adapted to the cold, and either freezes or is
Tortoises may harbor the organism in the nasal tract for years,
genetic makeup that is a good "fit" with their environment.
www.nanfa.org /archive/nanfa/nanfamay02/0324.html   (1518 words)

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