Showing posts with label suicide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label suicide. Show all posts
Thursday, April 19, 2012

Suicide forest

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Hub Pages Daily Mail In the United States, suicides throw themselves off the Golden Gate Bridge . In Australia, they jump from the ...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Suicide by animal

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This was reported today: Suicide by crocodile A 40-year-old South African father of 3 had an argument with his partner and afterward waded i...
Monday, March 14, 2011

Library jumpers

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A 3rd person has committed suicide by jumping from a 100' landing inside Utah's Salt Lake City Library . The library ( pictured ) wa...
Saturday, January 1, 2011

Whipple Bartlett

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I just received my e-newsletter from the Association for Gravestone Studies and it included the story behind the mysterious marker above, ...
Thursday, October 28, 2010

Halloween hangings

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This post is not about the perennial stories this time of year about decorations that are too reminiscent of African American lynching vict...
Saturday, September 25, 2010

Follow-ups

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A generous helping of vegetables 9/23/10 Schools in Ohio and New York introduce carrot vending machines . Killer squid 8/31/10 A truck hau...
Friday, June 18, 2010

Australian angel

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The Gap is a picturesque rocky outcrop in Sydney Harbor that also happens to be the most frequently chosen location for Australians to comm...
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Monday, May 10, 2010

Child suicides

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For years now, schoolyard and on-line bullying has been discussed in the media, particularly when it drives victims to suicide. But it is no...
Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Evelyn McHale

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I saw the photograph above ( 1st image, taken in 1947 ) for the first time yesterday. Because of it, Evelyn McHale achieved a small amount o...
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

More white tigers

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I blogged about white tigers 2 months ago and looked in on the status of American entertainer Roy Horn after his 2003 attack. I have since f...
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Saturday, August 15, 2009

Four films

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This 1975 documentary follows Jacqueline Kennedy's relatives Edith Bouvier Beale (1895-1977) and her daughter "Little Edie" (1...
Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Ars moriendi

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Renowned British symphony conductor Sir Edward Downes (1924-2009) and his wife Lady Joan ended their lives on July 10th at Dignitas , a Swis...
Friday, July 10, 2009

Lemmings maligned

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This interesting little skull was in the weird news yesterday. It is the 10,000-year-old skull of a lemming and led scientists to believe t...
Wednesday, May 6, 2009

The Sorrows of Young Werther

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With the publication of his semi-autobiographical novel The Sorrows of Young Werther in 1774, German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (174...
Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Tree tales

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An 18-year-old German hiker found a bone on the forest floor recently. This led to the discovery and recovery of a skeleton 11 meters up in ...
Friday, January 23, 2009

Disturbing decapitations

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If you are squeamish, you may want to skip this post... I was stunned when I heard the news that 22-year-old graduate student Xin Yang was d...