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27 Dec 2008, 10:19 am
This version of events has since been brought into question as other causes of death (murder by Johannes Kepler, suicide, and mercury poisoning among others) have come to the fore. * 1649: Sir Arthur Aston, Royalist commander of the garrison during the Siege of Drogheda, was beaten to death with his own wooden leg, which the Parliamentarian soldiers thought concealed golden coins. * 1660: Thomas Urquhart, Scottish aristocrat, polymath and first translator of Rabelais into English, is said… [read post]
17 Aug 2009, 10:44 am
New Massachusetts companies. [read post]