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23 hours ago · The death of Aeschylus, killed by a turtle dropped onto his head by a falcon, illustrated in the 15th-century Florentine Picture-Chronicle by Baccio Baldini. This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources.
23 hours ago · Jefferson Davis. Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as the first and only president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. He represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party before the American Civil War.
23 hours ago · In all the commentary about Donald Trump’s choice of Senator J. D. Vance as his running mate—he’s the survivor of a tumultuous upbringing in small-town Ohio, a former marine, a Yale Law graduate, the author of the 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” and the hero of the 2020 movie adaptation, a convert from Never Trumper to fervent acolyte—one aspect of his biography that could prove of ...
