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2003 in archaeology

Adrienne Mayor - Greek Fire, Poison Arrows and Scorpion Bombs: biological and chemical warfare in the ancient world.

Accademia del Cimento

In another experiment concerning the efficacy of SnakeStones Kircher used letters from other Jesuits in the field which said snakestones could counteract poison.

Alive II

The symbols were meant to represent the four personas of the group and included a skull and crossbones for Gene Simmons, a rose and star with eye for Stanley, a Saturn-like planet and block print-style "ACE" for Frehley, and a drum and cat's head for Peter Criss.

Aqua Tofana

The 'tradename' "Manna di San Nicola", i.e. "Manna of St. Nicholas of Bari" might have been a marketing device intended to divert the authorities, since the poison was openly sold both as a cosmetic and a devotionary object in vials that included a picture of St. Nicholas.

Babylon 5: Legions of Fire – Out of the Darkness

Thus Londo's ex-wife Mariel, who tried to poison him in episode Soul Mates of the TV series, is now a much pampered wife of Prime Minister Durla.

Coniine

Coniine is the poison used to kill Amyas Crale in Five Little Pigs (published in 1943), also known as Murder in Retrospect, one of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot mysteries.

Craig Boreham

In 2008, LesGaiCineMad and Fundación Triángulo in Madrid, programmed a retrospective of Boreham's short films titled True Cinema Poison.

Credenza

In the 16th century the act of credenza was the tasting of food and drinks by a servant for a lord or other important person (such as the pope or a cardinal) in order to test for poison.

Curse of the Golden Flower

Meanwhile the Empress, suspicious of the poison's presence in her medicine, had hired a woman-in-black to discover the identity and origin of the fungus, a mission that was successful and reveals the poison as the Persian black fungus.

Durdhara

According to a legend mentioned in Jain texts, her husband Chandragupta's Guru and advisor Chanakya used to feed the emperor with small doses of poison to build his immunity against possible poisoning attempts by enemies.

Electric Warrior

Poison drummer Rikki Rockett included a cover of "Life's a Gas" on his 2003 solo album Glitter 4 Your Soul.

Gas chamber

In his book, Le Crime de Napoléon, French historian Claude Ribbe has claimed that in the early 19th century, Napoleon used poison gas to put down slave rebellions in Haiti and Guadeloupe.

Gazzarri's

Some other bands that played at Gazzarri's either prior to or during their mainstream success include Johnny Rivers, The Go-Go's, Tina Turner, Southgang, Sonny and Cher, Ratt, Cinderella, Chicano rock band Renegade, punk band X, Victor Flamingo, Quiet Riot, Stryper, Mötley Crüe, Poison, Guns N' Roses, Warrant, Faster Pussycat, and Canadian rockers Hollywood Trash.

Himalayan tahr

In 1960, sodium monofluoroacetate (also known as compound 1080) was used to poison tahrs.

John Lyon, 7th Lord Glamis

Along with his mother, who had married as her second husband Archibald Campbell of Skipnish, Glamis and others were in July 1537 placed on trial on the charge of conspiring to cause the death of James V of Scotland by poison.

John Symonds

The Poison Maker, his final work for the stage was performed at the Old Red Lion Theatre in 2006, adapted and directed by the actress Vicki Carpenter who played Florence, with Eva Gray as Pansy.

L.A. Blues Authority Volume II: Glenn Hughes – Blues

Guest guitarists include former Europe player John Norum (who had produced the album Face The Truth which featured Hughes on a number of tracks earlier in 1992), Mick Mars of Mötley Crüe, Warren DeMartini of Ratt and Richie Kotzen of Poison, Mr. Big and Mark Kendall of Great White fame.

Le Mur Rose

A pre-war expert in decontamination techniques, Gerstein was assigned to the Hygiene Institute of the SS, becoming responsible for delivering Zyklon B poison used in the final solution gas chambers, including Auschwitz concentration camp.

Lifeline Theatre

Lifeline also produced world premiere adaptations of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the Ring) and four installments of the Dorothy L. Sayers Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries (Whose Body?, Strong Poison, Gaudy Night, and Busman's Honeymoon).

Lustful Wife in Black: Aching

Numakura plans to poison Mikami and to claim Etsuko as his own, but Viagra is substituted for the poison, thereby thwarting Numakura's plans.

Maned rat

The rat is known to deliberately smear these hairs with poison from the bark of the Acokanthera schimperi, on which it chews, thus creating a defense mechanism that can sicken or even kill predators which attempt to bite it.

Maria Paleologa

The marriage contract was annulled, however, after Federico accused Maria of attempting to poison his mistress Isabella Boschetti, wife of the Count of Calvisano.

Matthias Rath

In 2005, according to Reuters, Rath's foundation distributed tens of thousands of pamphlets in poor black South African townships, such as Khayelitsha, claiming that HIV medication was "poison" and urging HIV-positive people instead to use vitamins such as those Rath sells to treat HIV/AIDS.

Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council

The poison call center is staffed with poison experts including – physicians, pharmacists, nurses, and other specially trained in toxicology – provide life-saving services to Illinois residents and health care professionals.

Mimic poison frog

It produces the potent pumiliotoxin B, but its small size limits the amount of poison it can secrete.

Mint poison dart frog

Green and black poison dart frog (Dendrobates auratus) or mint poison frog, a medium-sized poison dart frog from Central and South America

Mohammed Munim al-Izmerly

In an October 6, 2005 report by Charles A. Duelfer, a CIA adviser who led the arms-hunting Iraq Survey Group, Izmerly is alleged to have been a key figure in training other Iraqi chemists trying to make poison gas for military use in the 1970s, the leader of the effort to produce mustard gas, and in the 1980s was chief of the chemical section of the Iraq Intelligence Service.

Monocaine

Monocane, a fictional poison in the Matlock episodes "The Nurse", "The Heist" 1995 and "The Hucksters"

Monocane, a fictional poison in the Perry Mason TV movie A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle

Paul Laine

His demo also got the attention of Canadian VJ Terry David Mulligan, and Laine was promptly signed to a management deal with Bruce Allen Talent (Bryan Adams, Loverboy, Michael Buble', Martina McBride, etc.) and went into Little Mountain Studio to record with mega producer Bruce Fairbairn (Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Poison, the Scorpions, AC/DC, etc.)

Pharmacichthys

Pharmacichthys ("poison fish") is a genus of prehistoric, deepbodied fish that was described by Woodward in 1942.

Poison Greatest Video Hits

The DVD consists of the first two Poison video releases "Sight for Sore Ears" and "Flesh, Blood, & Videotape" (which have not been released on DVD) and also features behind the scenes footage, in depth interviews, various clips and music videos from 'Swallow This Live', 'Native Tongue' and 'Power to the People' albums.

Priest–penitent privilege in England from the Reformation to the nineteenth century

Randolf was the confessor of Joanna of Navarre, widow of Henry IV who was accused of attempting to poison her stepson Henry V by witchcraft.

Ranavalona I

A poison was extracted from the nut of the native tangena (Tanghinia venenifera) shrub and ingested, with the outcome determining innocence or guilt.

Richard Benyon

In 2012 while Wildlife Minister he refused a request from other MPs that possession of carbofuran, a deadly poison used to kill raptors that is banned in Canada and the European Union, should be made a criminal offence.

Robert Christison

On poisons in particular he speedily became a high authority; his well-known treatise on them was published in 1829, and in the course of his inquiries he did not hesitate to try such daring experiments on himself as taking large doses of Calabar bean (Physostigmine).

Robert Francis Peckham

Hours after Mr. Ryan and four others were shot to death at an airstrip near Jonestown, which was the headquarters of the cult, the cult's leader, the Rev. Jim Jones, and 912 of his followers died by poison and gunfire in mass killings and suicides.

Slimane Khalfaoui

Khalfaoui with Algerian-British Rabah Kadre, participated in a reported attempt to attack the London Underground, with poisoning substances scheduled in late 2002.

STV Productions

STV Productions have produced many shows, including: Scottish Passport, The Hour, Catchphrase, The Poison Tree, Fake Reaction, Antiques Road Trip and many more.

Swallow This Live

Swallow This Live: Flesh & Blood World Tour is a Poison concert video, recorded in southern California in 1991.

The Mighty Peking Man

Like Tarzan, she has learned both to swing through the trees on vines and to communicate with and command the jungle animals, with the exception of a venomous snake who bites her on the inner thigh requiring the hero Johnny to suck out the poison while Samantha's leopard friend fights the snake.

Thermopylae

In a Greek myth is mentioned that Heracles had jumped into the river in an attempt to wash off the Hydra poison infused in the cloak that he could not take off.

Thomas Townsend Bucknill

Among the notable cases tried before Bucknill was that in 1912 of poisoner Frederick Seddon, who, on being found guilty of murder appealed directly to Bucknill as a brother Mason and in the name of 'The Great Architect Of The Universe' to overturn the jury’s verdict.

Tim Fish

Fish ran the daily web comic anthology Young Bottoms in Love, published by Poison Press in graphic novel form in 2006, featuring work by comic artists such as Howard Cruse, Paige Braddock, Abby Denson, Robert Kirby and Jack Lawrence.

Trow Ghyll skeleton

The glass bottle seen by Burgess turned out not to contain flash powder, but Sodium cyanide, a lethal poison.

Underground mine ventilation

Underground mine ventilation provides a flow of air to the underground workings of a mine of sufficient volume to dilute and remove noxious gases (typically methane, CO).

Unskinny Bop

"Unskinny Bop" is a song by American glam metal band Poison, which was released as the first single from their 1990 Flesh & Blood album.

Vladimir of Staritsa

In 1569 accused of high treason by Ivan IV, Vladimir and his children were forced to take poison at Ivan's residence of Alexandrov.

Wadie Haddad

According to the book Striking Back, published by Aharon Klein in 2006, Haddad was eliminated by the Mossad, which had sent the chocolate-loving Haddad Belgian chocolates coated with a slow-acting and undetectable poison which caused him to die severals months later.

WZLR

The first song after the change was announced was "Nothin' but a Good Time" by Poison.


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