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Augustus III of Poland

He spent less than three years of his thirty-year reign in Poland, where political feuding between the House of Czartoryski and the Potocki paralysed the Sejm (Liberum Veto), fostering internal political anarchy and weakening the Commonwealth.

Buriana

One legend tells how she cured the paralysed son of King Geraint of Dumnonia.

Cerocoma

Larvae of C. schreberi were found feeding on paralysed mantids collected by Tachytes wasps.

Denis Juneau

Despite this handicap, and having a paralysed right leg from poliomyelitis contracted at age 3, he went on to study in Italy, at the Sculoa di Disegno di Novara from 1954 to 1956.

Indonesia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics

Agus Ngaimin (who is paralysed from the waist down) competed in the men's 100m backstroke S6.

Jibla

Following the death of Sulayhid dynasty ruler Ali al-Sulayhi in 1067, Arwa al-Sulayhi's husband Ahmad became the de jure ruler of Yemen, but he was unable to rule being paralysed and bedridden.

Matthew Butcher

Constable Butcher was discharged from Royal Perth Rehabilitation Hospital in September 2008, however, he remains paralysed from the left side down and has not been able to use his left arm since the incident.

Pam Foley

She was studying to be a nurse at Mater Hospital in Townsville, when she became paralysed from the waist down at the age of 19 after her new motorbike crashed over Castle Hill.

Parduman Singh Brar

Brar, paralysed after an accident in the early 1980s, died on 22 March 2007 in his native village in Punjab after prolonged illness.

Peter Windsor

Shortly before the start of the 1986 season, Windsor was in an automobile accident when the car he was riding in with Frank Williams crashed on the way from the Paul Ricard Circuit in southern France to the Nice airport, causing Windsor minor injuries but leaving Williams, who was driving, paralysed.

Ragging in Sri Lanka

In 2011, a female student attached to the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Ruhuna, was semi-paralysed in one limb as a result of ragging she underwent at the faculty canteen.

Trust PA

It was established in 2002 in memory of Cardiff born Paul-André Blundell (known to his friends as P.A.) who, during an away rugby match for Keynsham RFC in September 2001, sustained a SCI leaving him instantly paralysed from the chin down and unable to breathe for himself.

Tumbledown

While fighting at the Battle of Mount Tumbledown, Lawrence is shot in the head by an Argentine sniper, and left paralysed on his left side.


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