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Unusual Deaths: A Selection Of The World's Most Bizarre Deaths
Unusual Deaths: A Selection Of The World's Most Bizarre Deaths
Unusual Deaths: A Selection Of The World's Most Bizarre Deaths
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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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PublisherShandonPress
Release dateNov 23, 2016
Unusual Deaths: A Selection Of The World's Most Bizarre Deaths

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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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    © ShandonPress, 2016.

    All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

    ShandonPress Ltd

    Ireland

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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

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