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Deaths-Head Revisited

The band Anthrax sampled a few lines of the dialogue for the introduction to the instrumental song "Intro to Reality" on the 1990 album Persistence of Time.

Gunther Lutze, a former captain in the SS, returns to the ruins of Dachau concentration camp to relive the memories of his time as its commandant during World War II.

Persistence of Time

The introduction to the instrumental song "Intro to Reality" featured dialogue from an episode of The Twilight Zone called "Deaths-Head Revisited".


1998 in piracy

The London-based International Maritime Bureau reported worldwide acts of piracy had fallen to 198 as compared to 247 from the previous year as well as 67 deaths.

2009 flu pandemic in Brazil

9 more deaths were of confirmed in that day, 2 of them in São Paulo, 6 in Rio Grande do Sul and the first in Rio de Janeiro.

Alex Beam

In December, 2010, Beam wrote an article in the Globe about Liverpool Football Club's supporters, criticizing them for continuing to mourn the deaths of 96 supporters during the Hillsborough disaster, which he called a "riot".

Alfred Herrhausen

The award-winning German documentary movie of 2001 Black Box BRD retells the lives and deaths of Alfred Herrhausen and Wolfgang Grams, a radical activist (who was a major suspect in the attack on Herrhausen).

Allan Rosenfield

In 1985, Rosenfield and Deborah Maine had the article Maternal Mortality — A Neglected Tragedy: Where is the M in MCH? published in The Lancet, drawing attention to deaths of women in the third-world in pregnancy and childbirth.

American Egyptomania

The public, hungry for mystery, followed the news closely, believing in the Curse of the pharaohs as the cause of these deaths.

Anzor Astemirov

Astemirov said that after the deaths of Sheikh Abdul-Halim and later Shamil Basayev, he sent a letter to the new Chechen rebel leader Dokka Umarov, asking him what he thought about declaring an Emirate that would replace the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

Beast of Bladenboro

The Beast of Bladenboro refers to the creature responsible for a string of deaths amongst Bladenboro, North Carolina animals in the winter of 1953-54.

Big Bay Point Light

There have been at least two notable deaths associated with the lighthouse, which have given rise to the belief that the light is haunted, and have inspired the book and movie Anatomy of a Murder.

Cats Falck

The deaths remain unsolved but later reports claim that they were assassinated in a state-sponsored operation by agents from East Germany.

CETP inhibitor

As of December, 2012, these drugs have generally failed in trials, either causing a marked increase in deaths (Torcetrapib), or having no meaningful clinical improvement despite HDL increases (Dalcetrapib).

Charles Quansah

While in custody, Quansah was subsequently charged with the murder of another woman, Akua Serwaa who was found strangled near Kumasi Sports Stadium, in Kumasi on January 19, 1996 and subsequently confessed to the strangulation deaths of eight women in the capital city of Accra.

Clapham Wood Mystery

Fortean authors and paranormal enthusiasts believe the area to be a locus of UFO sightings, Satanic cult activity, deaths, and lost or sick pets.

Deloris

In 2002 Deloris began work on their third record 'Fake Our Deaths', soliciting the services of engineer Matt Voigt (Cat Power, The Nation Blue, Augie March, The Dirty Three) and assistant engineer Hugh Counsell (later worked with Race the Fray), to commence recording at Melbourne's Sing Sing studios.

Edward S. Herman

Herman and Peterson wrote that the Western establishment has "swallowed a propaganda line on Rwanda that turned perpetrator and victim upside-down....the great majority of deaths were Hutu, with some estimates as high as two million".

Einsiedel Dam

The local council of Einsiedel, which lay below the proposed dam, had unsuccessfully objected against the dam site in Stadtguttal in light of the breach of the South Fork Dam in 1889 that had caused approximately 2,200 deaths.

Gregoria

The conflict ended with the deaths of both Aspar and his son Ardabur by order of Leo.

Hesse-Wanfried

In 1627 Ernest (1623–1693), a younger son of Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), received Rheinfels and lower Katzenelnbogen as his inheritance, and some years later, on the deaths of two of his brothers, Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Eschwege (1617–1655) and Herman IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg (1607–1658), he added Eschwege, Rotenburg, Wanfried and other districts to his possessions.

History of the Food and Drug Administration

Much credit is given to the deaths of many people in the 1930s, including Eben Byers in 1932 from the ingestion of radithor and many women, some known as The Radium Girls, to making the FDA much more powerful organization we know today.

Hugh of Sleat

All of Hugh's sons died violent deaths in the contest over the Chiefship of Clan Donald of Sleat.

James Tyrie

On his return in December, Tyrie was sent to the University of Pont-à-Mousson, as professor of Scripture and head of the Scots College, and two years later, on the successive deaths of Fathers Edmund Hay and Paul Hoffaeus, he was again called to Rome (22 May, 1592), where he became Assistant for France and Germany, and played his part in the Sixth General Congregation of the Society of Jesus (1593).

Judicature Acts

However, after the deaths of Lord Chief Baron Kelly (on 17 September 1880), and Lord Chief Justice Cockburn (on 10 November 1880), the Common Pleas and Exchequer divisions were consolidated (by an Order in Council of 10 December 1880) with the King's Bench division into a single division, under the presidency of the Lord Chief Justice of England, to whom, by the Judicature Act 1881 s.

Kaze Hikaru

Her primary goal is to seek avenge against the Chōshū clan, the responsible for her father and older brother's deaths.

Landgraviate of Hesse-Rotenburg

In 1627, Ernest (1623–1693), a younger son of Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, received Rheinfels and lower Katzenelnbogen as his inheritance, and some years later, on the deaths of two of his brothers, Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Eschwege (1617–1655) and Herman IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg (1607–1658), he added Eschwege, Rotenburg, Wanfried and other districts to his possessions.

Lewis Wetzel

Lewis was implicated in the deaths of several Indians, which led to his being charged with murder by Colonel Josiah Harmar for the murder of an Indian in the region of Fort Harmar, near present day Marietta, Ohio, in 1788.

Luding Bridge

The very first description of the battle, given by Edgar Snow in Red Star Over China in 1937, cited three deaths.

Luqa

In 1592 the village of Luqa was hit by Bubonic plague, which at that time hit all the population of Malta and caused many deaths.

Maria Branwell

Maria met Patrick Brontë in 1812 when visiting her aunt Jane and uncle John Fennell in Yorkshire after four family deaths between 1808 and 1812; two of the deaths were her mother's and father's, and aunt Jane was her father's sister.

Marybeth Tinning

Since Michael was adopted, the long-suspected theory that the deaths in the Tinning family had a genetic origin was discarded.

May 2009 Southern Midwest derecho

All of the injuries and deaths occurred in one mobile home near the intersection of Kentucky Route 1295 and Kentucky Route 52 in southern Madison County.

Niven Busch

Busch appears in the film The Unbearable Lightness of Being, playing the role of "Old Man" in the scene in which Sabina (Lena Olin) receives the letter informing her of Tómas and Tereza's deaths.

Osnabrück mortar attack

They marked the end of the truce by detonating a truck bomb at Canary Wharf in London, which caused the deaths of two civilians and massive damage to property.

Ovonramwen

Subsequently a military operation against Benin in 1897 led by Harry Rawson resulted in the burning of Benin City and the deaths of untold numbers of its inhabitants.

Petyr Baelish

While he is initially perceived as a minor but somewhat powerful figure in the first three books of the series, by A Feast for Crows it is revealed that several major plot points have hinged on Baelish's intrigues and machinations, including the framing of Tyrion Lannister for the attempt on Bran Stark's life and the deaths of Jon Arryn and King Joffrey.

Phạm Du

His influence and unscrupulous acquisition of wealth raised opposition from Phạm Bỉnh Di, resulting in a conflict which divided the Ly court and caused the deaths of both men.

Pob Pee Fah

In 2007, following the mysterious deaths of four villagers in the Sam Chai district of the northeastern Thai province of Kalasin, 1,000 residents, fearing the cause to be evil spirits, raised 35,000 baht to pay for the exorcism of a Pee Fah, believed to be possessing two of the female villagers.

Safe standing

On 15 April 1989 a crush on the Leppings Lane terrace of Hillsborough during an FA Cup semi final, resulting in the deaths of ninety-six Liverpool supporters.

Saint-Michel-en-Grève

In 2009 huge quantities of Ulva lactuca washed up on the beach at Saint Michel, causing the deaths of a horse and a cleanup crew truck driver.

Šakvice train disaster

A local train was standing at the Šakvice station near Brno, when the Prague-Bratislava express ran into it, resulting in 103 deaths and a further 83 injured.

Salui, Malawi

Salui is home to many orphaned children, most likely as a result of a large number of adult deaths due to HIV infection.

Simultaneous death

Some wills now include Titanic clauses (named for the RMS Titanic, which caused many simultaneous deaths among testators and executors).

South Indian Film Artistes' Association

;Sri Lankan civil-war hunger strike: In September 2008, Sarathkumar organized a one-day hunger strike, protesting the deaths of several Tamils in Sri Lanka and the ongoing Sri Lankan Civil War.

Tarpeian Rock

Murderers, traitors, perjurors, and larcenous slaves, if convicted by the quaestores parricidii, were flung from the cliff to their deaths.

The Council of the Gods

Another event which influenced their work was the explosion that destroyed BASF's chemical plant in Ludwigshafen and caused 280 deaths at 28 July 1948, which was combined into the plot's ending.

The Diableros

Facing multiple deaths in the family and mounting day job pressures, they completed a short but successful tour with The Most Serene Republic in spring 2008 and decided to regroup.

The Last Man on Planet Earth

During a war with Afghanistan, an incurable biological weapon called the "Y-bomb", which targets only the male Y-chromosome, is used and results in the eventual deaths of 97% of the world's men.

United Nations Mission in South Sudan

Fighting that spread as a result of the 2013 South Sudanese coup d'état attempt led to the deaths of two Indian peacekeepers, while another soldier was wounded in Akobo, Jonglei, on 19 December.

William C. Conner

In a 1981 decision later reversed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in a case brought by Harpo Marx's widow Susan Fleming, Conner ruled that the producers of A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine had improperly used the Marx Brothers characters in their Broadway theatre production and that the publicity rights of the comedians, even after their deaths, overrode the First Amendment claims of the show's creators.

Xstrata

On 28 May 2012 violent repression of local residents by the police in the province of Espinar, Cuzco, Peru, caused the deaths of two civilians.


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