Basil Fawlty
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Operation Highjump - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Operation Highjump (OpHjp), officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946-47, was a United States Navy operation organized by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd in Antarctica under the command of Richard Cruzen, which was launched on 26 August 1946 and ended abruptly in late February 1947, six months earlier than planned. The massive Antarctic task force included 4,700 men, 13 ships, and multiple aircraft.
John Titor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Titor is the name used on several bulletin boards during 2000 and 2001 by a poster claiming to be a time traveler from the year 2036. In these posts he made numerous predictions (a number of them vague, some quite specific[1]) about events in the near future, starting with events in 2004. He described a drastically changed future in which the United States had broken into five smaller regions, the environment and infrastructure had been devastated by a nuclear attack, and most other world powers had been destroyed.
To date, the story has been retold on numerous web sites, in a book, and in a play. He has also been discussed occasionally on the radio show Coast to Coast AM.[2] In this respect, the Titor story may be unique in terms of broad appeal from an originally limited medium, an Internet discussion board.
Jim Jones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Warren "Jim" Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was the founder of the Peoples Temple, which is best known for the November 18, 1978 death of over 900 Temple members in Jonestown, Guyana along with the deaths of nine other people at a nearby airstrip in Georgetown.
TWA Flight 800 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trans World Airlines (TWA) Flight 800 was a scheduled international passenger flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York City, NY to Leonardo da Vinci Airport (FCO) in Rome, Italy, via Paris-Charles de Gaulle (CDG) in Paris, France. On July 17, 1996, at about 20:31 EDT (00:31 on July 18 UTC), the Boeing 747-131 flying the route (tail number N93119) exploded in mid-air and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York. All 230 people on board (two pilots, two flight engineers, 14 flight attendants, 212 passengers) were killed and the aircraft was destroyed.[1] The incident caused the third-highest number of fatalities of single-aircraft aviation accidents within U.S. territory, surpassed only by American Airlines Flight 191 and American Airlines Flight 587.
David Koresh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
David Koresh (August 17, 1959 – April 19, 1993), born Vernon Wayne Howell, was the leader of a Branch Davidian religious sect, believing himself to be its final prophet. A 1993 raid by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the subsequent siege by the FBI ended with the burning of the Branch Davidian ranch outside of Waco, Texas. Koresh, 54 adults and 21 children were found dead after the fire, though the time of death is in dispute.
Albert Fish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Albert Hamilton Fish (May 19, 1870 – January 16, 1936) was an American serial killer and cannibal. He was also known as the Gray Man, the Werewolf of Wysteria, the Brooklyn Vampire, and The Boogeyman.[1] A child molester and cannibal, he boasted that he had "had children in every state,"[1] and at one time put the figure at around 100. However, it is not clear whether he was talking about molestation or cannibalization, less still as to whether he was telling the truth. He was a suspect in at least five murders in his lifetime. Fish confessed to three murders that police were able to trace to a known homicide, and confessed to stabbing at least two other people. He was put on trial for the kidnapping and murder of Grace Budd, and was convicted and executed via electric chair.
Nine Weird Wacky Historical Deaths of Famous People
by Joe Dorish, Apr 4, 2009
Truth is stranger than fiction.
Georg Wilhelm Richmann
Georg Wilhelm Richmann was a German physicist and a pioneer in electricity and atmospheric electricity. In 1753 he was electrocuted "while trying to quantify the response of an insulated rod to a nearby storm." Richmann and an engraver were watching the rod as an electrical storm hit and apparently a ball lightning moved across the apparatus and struck Richmann in the head, killing him instantly while blowing his shoes apart and leaving just a large red spot on the floor where Richmann was. The engraver was knocked out cold and the door of the room was blown off its hinges and the door frame cracked. Georg Wilhelm Richmann is believed to be the first person ever to die from conducting electrical experiments.
Bela I of Hungary
Bela was King of Hungary from 1060-1063. In 1063 he was killed when the canopy over his throne crashed down upon him. To this day no one is quite sure if the canopy collapse was an accident or intentionally planned.
Sigurd the Mighty
Sigurd Eysteinsson was the second Viking Earl of Orkney after leading the Vikings in the conquest of what is now northern Scotland. In 892 Sigurd beheaded one of the native rulers of the land he conquered in Scotland named Maelbrigte. Sigurd then strapped Maelbrigte's head to his saddle. When riding away one of Maelbrigte's teeth grazed Sigurd's leg drawing blood and he died from the ensuing infection.
Henry I of England
In 1135 while in Normandy to visit his daughter and grandchildren, Henry decided to have lampreys for dinner.
Source (Lamprey waiting to be cooked)
Henry loved lampreys and on this day he supposedly ate three pails full of them and promptly died from food poisoning.
Adolf Frederick of Sweden
Adolf Frederick was the King of Sweden for 20 years. On February 12, 1771, he had a meal consisting of lobster, caviar, sauerkraut, kippers and champagne, which was topped off with 14 servings of his favourite dessert: semla (fine pastry seen below) served in a bowl of hot milk.
The meal gave him bad indigestion and he died. He is remembered in Sweden today as "the king who ate himself to death."
John Kendrick
Kendrick was an American sea captain who took part in the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773. He then became a commissioned privateer and was captured by the British. Upon release he commanded several Navy vessels until the end of the war. He then commanded missions into the Pacific Ocean and in 1794 in the Hawaiian Islands Kendrick and a British Navy ship helped Chief Kalanikupule repel an invasion by a rival chief. After the victory Kendrick's ship fired a 13 gun salute. When the British ship fired a return salute the British mistakenly shot off a cannon loaded real grapeshot and Kendrick and several of his men were killed as they watched the salute from their deck.
Francois Vatel
In April of 1671, Vatel was the head chef for an extravagant banquet for 2,000 people hosted in honour of Louis XIV at the Château de Chantilly. Vatel is famous for inventing Chantilly cream, a sweet, vanilla-flavoured whipped cream. Vatel was a perfectionist to say the least and he was planning on serving fish at the banquet but when it did not arrive he committed suicide by running himself through with a sword. In the 2000 film Vatel starring Gerard Depardieu, Uma Thurman and Tim Roth, the reason given for Vatel's suicide is his affair with Louis XIV's mistress. Uma Thurman played the mistress in the film and if the real mistress looked like that, one can understand.
Huskisson was a financier and Member of Parliament in England. While he was attending the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830 he was attempting to leave the train he was on to greet the Duke of Wellington at a stop. Another train was coming from the other direction and Huskisson misjudged the space between the two trains while holding the carriage door open. The other train hit the open door Huskisson was holding onto and he was knocked under the moving train's wheels and his leg was horribly mangled. Huskisson was taken by train to the hospital but died a few hours later. He was not the first person to die from a train accident but due to his stature his death by train was the first to be widely reported.
Saint Peter
One of the Twelve Apostles, Peter is generally credited with founding the Roman Catholic Church and is considered by many as the first Pope. It is believed that after the great fire that destroyed Rome during Nero's reign, Peter was one of the Christians rounded up and blamed for the fire. Tradition states that when Peter was ordered executed by the cross that he requested to be crucified upside down as he was not worthy of being killed the same way Jesus Christ was. The Romans granted him his wish in roughly 64 AD.
Operation Highjump (OpHjp), officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946-47, was a United States Navy operation organized by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd in Antarctica under the command of Richard Cruzen, which was launched on 26 August 1946 and ended abruptly in late February 1947, six months earlier than planned. The massive Antarctic task force included 4,700 men, 13 ships, and multiple aircraft.
John Titor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Titor is the name used on several bulletin boards during 2000 and 2001 by a poster claiming to be a time traveler from the year 2036. In these posts he made numerous predictions (a number of them vague, some quite specific[1]) about events in the near future, starting with events in 2004. He described a drastically changed future in which the United States had broken into five smaller regions, the environment and infrastructure had been devastated by a nuclear attack, and most other world powers had been destroyed.
To date, the story has been retold on numerous web sites, in a book, and in a play. He has also been discussed occasionally on the radio show Coast to Coast AM.[2] In this respect, the Titor story may be unique in terms of broad appeal from an originally limited medium, an Internet discussion board.
Jim Jones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Warren "Jim" Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was the founder of the Peoples Temple, which is best known for the November 18, 1978 death of over 900 Temple members in Jonestown, Guyana along with the deaths of nine other people at a nearby airstrip in Georgetown.
TWA Flight 800 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trans World Airlines (TWA) Flight 800 was a scheduled international passenger flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York City, NY to Leonardo da Vinci Airport (FCO) in Rome, Italy, via Paris-Charles de Gaulle (CDG) in Paris, France. On July 17, 1996, at about 20:31 EDT (00:31 on July 18 UTC), the Boeing 747-131 flying the route (tail number N93119) exploded in mid-air and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York. All 230 people on board (two pilots, two flight engineers, 14 flight attendants, 212 passengers) were killed and the aircraft was destroyed.[1] The incident caused the third-highest number of fatalities of single-aircraft aviation accidents within U.S. territory, surpassed only by American Airlines Flight 191 and American Airlines Flight 587.
David Koresh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
David Koresh (August 17, 1959 – April 19, 1993), born Vernon Wayne Howell, was the leader of a Branch Davidian religious sect, believing himself to be its final prophet. A 1993 raid by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the subsequent siege by the FBI ended with the burning of the Branch Davidian ranch outside of Waco, Texas. Koresh, 54 adults and 21 children were found dead after the fire, though the time of death is in dispute.
Albert Fish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Albert Hamilton Fish (May 19, 1870 – January 16, 1936) was an American serial killer and cannibal. He was also known as the Gray Man, the Werewolf of Wysteria, the Brooklyn Vampire, and The Boogeyman.[1] A child molester and cannibal, he boasted that he had "had children in every state,"[1] and at one time put the figure at around 100. However, it is not clear whether he was talking about molestation or cannibalization, less still as to whether he was telling the truth. He was a suspect in at least five murders in his lifetime. Fish confessed to three murders that police were able to trace to a known homicide, and confessed to stabbing at least two other people. He was put on trial for the kidnapping and murder of Grace Budd, and was convicted and executed via electric chair.
Nine Weird Wacky Historical Deaths of Famous People
by Joe Dorish, Apr 4, 2009
Truth is stranger than fiction.
Georg Wilhelm Richmann
Georg Wilhelm Richmann was a German physicist and a pioneer in electricity and atmospheric electricity. In 1753 he was electrocuted "while trying to quantify the response of an insulated rod to a nearby storm." Richmann and an engraver were watching the rod as an electrical storm hit and apparently a ball lightning moved across the apparatus and struck Richmann in the head, killing him instantly while blowing his shoes apart and leaving just a large red spot on the floor where Richmann was. The engraver was knocked out cold and the door of the room was blown off its hinges and the door frame cracked. Georg Wilhelm Richmann is believed to be the first person ever to die from conducting electrical experiments.
Bela I of Hungary
Bela was King of Hungary from 1060-1063. In 1063 he was killed when the canopy over his throne crashed down upon him. To this day no one is quite sure if the canopy collapse was an accident or intentionally planned.
Sigurd the Mighty
Sigurd Eysteinsson was the second Viking Earl of Orkney after leading the Vikings in the conquest of what is now northern Scotland. In 892 Sigurd beheaded one of the native rulers of the land he conquered in Scotland named Maelbrigte. Sigurd then strapped Maelbrigte's head to his saddle. When riding away one of Maelbrigte's teeth grazed Sigurd's leg drawing blood and he died from the ensuing infection.
Henry I of England
In 1135 while in Normandy to visit his daughter and grandchildren, Henry decided to have lampreys for dinner.
Source (Lamprey waiting to be cooked)
Henry loved lampreys and on this day he supposedly ate three pails full of them and promptly died from food poisoning.
Adolf Frederick of Sweden
Adolf Frederick was the King of Sweden for 20 years. On February 12, 1771, he had a meal consisting of lobster, caviar, sauerkraut, kippers and champagne, which was topped off with 14 servings of his favourite dessert: semla (fine pastry seen below) served in a bowl of hot milk.
The meal gave him bad indigestion and he died. He is remembered in Sweden today as "the king who ate himself to death."
John Kendrick
Kendrick was an American sea captain who took part in the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773. He then became a commissioned privateer and was captured by the British. Upon release he commanded several Navy vessels until the end of the war. He then commanded missions into the Pacific Ocean and in 1794 in the Hawaiian Islands Kendrick and a British Navy ship helped Chief Kalanikupule repel an invasion by a rival chief. After the victory Kendrick's ship fired a 13 gun salute. When the British ship fired a return salute the British mistakenly shot off a cannon loaded real grapeshot and Kendrick and several of his men were killed as they watched the salute from their deck.
Francois Vatel
In April of 1671, Vatel was the head chef for an extravagant banquet for 2,000 people hosted in honour of Louis XIV at the Château de Chantilly. Vatel is famous for inventing Chantilly cream, a sweet, vanilla-flavoured whipped cream. Vatel was a perfectionist to say the least and he was planning on serving fish at the banquet but when it did not arrive he committed suicide by running himself through with a sword. In the 2000 film Vatel starring Gerard Depardieu, Uma Thurman and Tim Roth, the reason given for Vatel's suicide is his affair with Louis XIV's mistress. Uma Thurman played the mistress in the film and if the real mistress looked like that, one can understand.
Huskisson was a financier and Member of Parliament in England. While he was attending the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830 he was attempting to leave the train he was on to greet the Duke of Wellington at a stop. Another train was coming from the other direction and Huskisson misjudged the space between the two trains while holding the carriage door open. The other train hit the open door Huskisson was holding onto and he was knocked under the moving train's wheels and his leg was horribly mangled. Huskisson was taken by train to the hospital but died a few hours later. He was not the first person to die from a train accident but due to his stature his death by train was the first to be widely reported.
Saint Peter
One of the Twelve Apostles, Peter is generally credited with founding the Roman Catholic Church and is considered by many as the first Pope. It is believed that after the great fire that destroyed Rome during Nero's reign, Peter was one of the Christians rounded up and blamed for the fire. Tradition states that when Peter was ordered executed by the cross that he requested to be crucified upside down as he was not worthy of being killed the same way Jesus Christ was. The Romans granted him his wish in roughly 64 AD.
