Unusual Deaths: A Selection Of The World's Most Bizarre Deaths
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This ebook presents a list of unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources.
Note: some of the deaths are mythological or are considered to be unsubstantiated by contemporary researchers.
Oxford Dictionaries defines the word "unusual" as "not habitually or commonly occurring or done" and "remarkable or interesting because different from or better than others."
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Unusual Deaths: A Selection Of The World's Most Atypical Deaths
This ebook presents a list of unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources.
Note: some of the deaths are mythological or are considered to be unsubstantiated by contemporary researchers.
Oxford Dictionaries defines the word unusual
as not habitually or commonly occurring or done
and remarkable or interesting because different from or better than others.
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1. Antiquity
c. 620 BC: Draco, Athenian law-maker, was smothered to death by gifts of cloaks and hats showered upon him by appreciative citizens at a theatre on Aegina.
564 BC: Arrhichion of Phigalia, Greek pankratiast, caused his own death during the Olympic finals. Held by his unidentified opponent in a stranglehold and unable to free himself, Arrichion's trainer shouted, What a fine funeral if you do not submit at Olympia!
Arrichion then kicked his opponent with his right foot while casting his body to