-Statement of Purpose: In this speech I am going to tell you the story of Murderous Mary and the day the hung the elephant. I want to clear up many misconceptions people have about the events leading up to the hanging of Mary. -Preview of Main Points: I. Sparks World Famous Shows was a circus that had many attractions, with Mary being its biggest one. II. After a performance in Kingsport, Tennessee, Mary killed her trainer.
Dandridge was scheduled to fly to New York the next day to prepare for her nightclub engagement at Basin Street East. Several hours after her conversation with Branton ended, Dandridge was found dead by her manager, Earl Mills. Two months later, a Los Angeles pathology institute determined the cause to be an accidental overdose of Imipramine, a tricyclic antidepressant.The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office came to a different conclusion Miss Dandridge died of a rare embolism blockage of the blood passages at the lungs and brain by tiny pieces of fat flaking off from bone marrow in a fractured right foot she sustained in a Hollywood film five days before she died. She was 42 years
He became an alcoholic, lost his job, his family and in 1995, about seven years later, he committed suicide with a shotgun (Lunsford, 2002, Babinek, 1997). Robert Long shot himself some time after helping rescue nine trapped miners in the Quecreek Mine, PA. (Charney, 2003), There were six suicides after the Oklahoma City bombing. These included Terrance Yeaker, the first police officer to arrive on the scene, another police officer as well as a federal prosecutor who was involved in the McVeigh investigation (Hopkins, & Jones, 2004). The less dramatic incidence of incipient depression is more difficult to document. For example, police have an especially high suicide rate after
Not for a few pages did she reveal that the birds had killed the Triggs and the mailman. Then, Nat realizes there are no signs of life from any of his neighbors' homes because they have all been attacked and eaten by the birds. After that, the reader is left wondering if Nat and his family will remain safe. The author does not tell us, however. The story ends when Nat smokes his last cigarette, and the birds are still attacking.
Shortly after Aurther Kane checked himself into a Los Angeles hospital with what he thought was a severe case of the flu. Kane's ailment was soon diagnosed as leukemia, and he died only a few hours later, on July 13, 2004, at age 55. The remaining Dolls played a hometown tribute to their fallen brothers at Little Steven's International Underground Garage Festival in New York City on August 14, 2004. (Allmusic.com 8)
Coffin ships were mostly filthy and disease ridden, The Star was no different, on the 5th day of the 20 week voyage 4 steerage passengers die of typhus. The majority of steerage passengers had dysenyary, scurvy or famine dropsy while about 15 had all three. Word goes around that there are things missing from the first class passengers and some one has sawed through the loser foredeck gate bars. The crew soon discovers that there is a hack saw missing from the kitchen, the saw was stolen by pius mulvey. The 6th chapter in this novel is a letter from the hisband of mary duane, a nanny to one of the first class
Finally, he got his brain from a salesman that knocked his door and was so desperate for selling his products that sold his brain for an impressive sum of money. At this point, Victor was ready to complete his ambition and create life from his experiments. He reunited the best arms, legs, and internal organs he had in his collection, and weaved them together creating a monster. At last, he attached his new brain into the monster, and waited for a thunderstorm. He waited almost a year, but when the time came, he elevated his monster with a platform so high that a thunder hit
At exactly 7:22 on April 15, 1865, Lincoln died a tragic death that every Northerner grieved about. Days later, they found the crazy assassin in a small barn and shot him in the head. Lincoln was buried in his home town of Illinois and buried in a tomb after a train travel across the country to show the dead body of Abraham Lincoln(assassination). This was the legacy of our greatest president. From challenging Douglas as a republican to debates mostly about slavery.
Aria Carlson 9/21/12 The Masque of the Red Death The short story, “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allen Poe is a tale about a prince named Prospero. During his reign, there was a lethal plague called the Red Death in his land, and the Prince used his castle as a shield to protect himself from it. Meanwhile, Prospero hosted a large masquerade ball inside his castle. During the ball, unexpectedly, a mysterious and ominous figure enters the room. Metaphorically speaking, Poe used setting and symbol to convey the theme that if you try to hide from the problem, the problem will always find you.
Assignment 1: Mummy Curses Brittany Skinner Hum 111 Prof. Chip Stansbury 10-31-14 Unsolved mysteries, especially back in the Egyptian times, happen to be the most favorite subjects throughout schools and personal interest. I choose the topic that involved the “Mummy’s Curse,” a series of unexplainable, unfortunate, or tragic events that happened to the people who were present at the opening of Tutankhamen’s tomb. For many years people seemed that the very act of entering into a King’s tomb would inflict death upon them, in specific ways. Many theories have been put forth to explain the deaths, and the most prominent one is that the tomb was cursed. It said that an inscription at the entrance of the tomb reads the ‘Death will slay with his wings whoever disturbs the peace of the pharaoh’.