Their design was miraculously frustrated – according to the Aeginetan version, the statues fell upon their knees – and only a single survivor returned to Athens, there to fall victim to the fury of his comrades ' widows, who pierced him with their brooch-pins.

* Vasconic substratum hypothesis: This proposal, by the German linguist Theo Vennemann, claims that there is enough toponymical evidence to conclude that Basque is the only survivor of a larger family that once extended throughout most of Europe, and has also left its mark in modern Indo-European languages spoken in Europe.

Corum is the last survivor of the Vadhagh race and an incarnation aspect of the Eternal Champion, a being that exists in all worlds to ensure there is " Cosmic Balance ".

Eldol states that he is the sole survivor of the Britons who met there, having escaped by defending himself a stake that he claims was thrown to him by God.

And believe me, I am glad for every survivor that there was.

As well as period rooms, the collection includes parts of buildings, for example the two top stories of the facade of Sir Paul Pindar's house dated c1600 from Bishopsgate with elaborately carved wood work and leaded windows, a rare survivor of the Great Fire of London, there is a brick portal from a London house of the English Restoration period and a fireplace from the gallery of Northumberland house.

Of these writings, there is a sole survivor, which is the Liber Linteus.

He was a survivor of Harald Hardraade's defeat at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066 and fled from there to Man.

The sole survivor, Sergeant Harold Julien, indicated that there was a series of explosions that preceded the crash.

* There is no historical record of anyone from the Clan Munro taking part in the Battle of Flodden Field, however there is an old tradition that the Munros of Argyll are descended from a Flodden survivor.

Located there is the Mountainville Hut, believed to be a survivor from the encampment.

He witnessed the sinking of HMS Bluebell from which there was one survivor.

Then in 1575, Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda, a shipwreck survivor who had lived with the Native Americans of Florida for 17 years, published his memoir in which he locates the Fountain of Youth in Florida, and says that Ponce de León was supposed to have looked for them there.

Others are a single living species with no close living relatives, but which is the survivor of a large and widespread group in the fossil record ; perhaps the best-known example is Ginkgo biloba of the ginkgo genus, though there are others, such as the Syntexis libocedrii ( the cedar wood wasp ).

Seidman argues that there was not one Holocaust survivor in Night, but two — a Yiddish and a French — a view that Holocaust deniers have exploited to imply that Wiesel has not been truthful about some of the scenes.

In the later half of the 20th century, there became increasing evidence that any pejorative meaning of the term Okie was changing ; former and present Okies began to apply the label as a badge of honor and symbol of the Okie survivor attitude.

Also in the Star Wars series, there was a living ship that was simply called Ship, which had fused with Pilot, the only survivor of a biotoxin attack, to become one being, playing games with itself for amusement during its thousands of years in the Great Void.

However there was one camp survivor, Simon Srebnik who lived despite being shot in the back of the head.

A gnarled and twisted apple tree, growing by the side of Plas Bach, is believed to be the only survivor of an orchard that was tended by the monks who lived there a thousand years ago.

In England and Wales, if there are children, the survivor inherits the first £ 125, 000 plus personal possessions plus a life interest in half the remainder ; if there are no children but the deceased has surviving parents or siblings, the surviving spouse inherits the first £ 200, 000 plus personal possessions plus half the remainder ; otherwise the survivor inherits the whole estate.

Alongside the photograph reads: Because of the evidence discussed on page 9, experts now suspect that there may in fact be one survivor of the fire, but the survivor's whereabouts are unknown.

Mainly these were concerned with the possibility of the death of one parent and the complication of living with the survivor afterward, but the possible death of one's own spouse was not overlooked.

The sole survivor ( Cindy Mosey ) was travelling with her family and the other from Nelson to Wellington to attend a gymnastics competition.

Charlton was the first injured survivor to leave hospital, Harry Gregg and Bill Foulkes were not hospitalized since they escaped uninjured.

At that time, survivor Clive Doyle was living at the Mount Carmel Center with supporter Ron Goins, operating a small visitor museum as well as holding weekly Bible studies on the Sabbath.

Although many clipper ships were built in the mid-19th century, Cutty Sark was, perhaps until recently, the only survivor.

The company that would become Commodore Business Machines, Inc. was founded in 1954 in Toronto as the Commodore Portable Typewriter Company by Polish immigrant and Auschwitz survivor Jack Tramiel.

Elizabeth is acknowledged as a charismatic performer and a dogged survivor, in an age when government was ramshackle and limited and when monarchs in neighbouring countries faced internal problems that jeopardised their thrones.

A Labour Party TD, David Thornley, embarrassed the government ( of which Labour was a member ) by appearing on the platform at the ceremony, along with Máire Comerford, a survivor of the Rising, and Fiona Plunkett, sister of Joseph Plunkett.

At the conclusion of that episode, that surviving Dalek self-destructs, leaving the Doctor believing that he was the sole survivor of the Time War.

* Chapter 3: The Double Shakedown-in this chapter, Finkelstein claims that the number of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust recognized by relief groups increased from c. 100, 000 in 1945 to nearly 1 million owing to definitional changes in who was considered to be a survivor.

They wanted to cast me in the role of spokesman for my generation, especially for those who had survived the war ; but for me survival was an individual action that earned the survivor the right to speak only for himself.

Members of Polgár's family perished in the Holocaust, and her grandmother was a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

She was the only survivor of the Mayflower Mullins family.

He was a survivor of the Salem Witch Trials, of which he wrote a notable account.

John Alden was the last male survivor of the signers of the Mayflower Compact, and with the exception of Mary Allerton, he was the last survivor of the Mayflower's company.

The sole survivor of this process was Josephus ( this method as a mathematical problem is referred to as the Josephus problem, or Roman Roulette ), who surrendered to the Roman forces and became a prisoner.

Later rabbinical legends made Og a survivor of the flood, suggesting the he had sat on the Ark and was fed by Noah.

Despite the firm's name, Burnham was the nominal survivor ; the Drexel name only came first at the insistence of the more powerful investment banks, whose blessing was necessary for the merged firm to inherit Drexel's position as a " major " firm.

He was previously the leader of PLAN, and a survivor of the Battle of Cassinga.

Later, Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow, a survivor of Schill's Freikorps, formed the Lützow Free Corps, which took part in the German War of Liberation.

In 2012 95-years old Arsene Tchakarian, the last survivor of the Manouchian resistance group, who fought against occupying Nazi German forces during World War II, was awarded with the medal of Officer of the Legion of Honor by the French President.

Attempts to rescue the crew were interrupted by the arrival of a submarine ; one survivor was rescued by a German ship two days later out of some 250 who had survived the sinking.

Willi ( Walter Slezak ), a German survivor, is pulled aboard and denies being an enemy officer.

* Eugen Kogon ( 1903 – 1987 ), German politician, survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp, and author of The Theory and Practice of Hell

** Claudio Corti, being the sole survivor, was quite wrongly castigated by some quarters of the international press, and was held responsible for the disappearance of the two German climbers Northdurf and Mayer ( Northdurf had already soloed to the Swallows Nest and back ).

The United Nations ' first High Commissioner for Human Rights Dr. José Ayala Lasso, German chancellor Angela Merkel, Nobel literature laureate and Holocaust survivor Imre Kertész, Joachim Gauck, Milan Horáček, former Austrian crown prince Otto von Habsburg, and historians such as Guido Knopp, Hungarian novelist György Konrád, and Christian Tomuschat, have also voiced their support for the centre.

While doing research in Vienna, Austria, he met Utch, an orphaned survivor of the German occupation and the Russian siege at the end of World War II.

In the closing days of World War II, an Irishman Murphy ( Peter O ' Toole ) is the sole survivor of the crew of a merchant ship, Mount Kyle, which has been sunk by a German U-Boat, which then machine-gunned the survivors in the water.

Many of the present-day Jewish youth – grandchildren of the survivor generation – still maintain this silent boycott of German goods, finding the purchase of even small Germanic-made items repugnant.

One survivor of the massacre, a young German named H. Von Ehrenberg, wrote an account of the murders on December 3, 1853.

* The Times: Lenka Reinerova: the last survivor of the " Prague German " writers

Other roles included Elske in Die Reise nach Tilsit, the wholesome German wife whose husband betrays her with a Polish woman, but finally returns, repentant ; Elisabeth in Immensee, who marries a rich landowner to forget her unrequited love, and in the end decides to remain faithful even after she is widowed and her lover returns ; Aels in Opfergang, a woman who dies after her love affair ; Luise Treskow in The Great King, a miller's daughter who encourages Frederick the Great ; and Maria in Kolberg, a peasant girl who loyally supports the resistance to Napoleon and is the only survivor of her family.

The hero of the novel, seaman Brown, is the sole able-bodied survivor of a sunken British warship, who is able single-handedly to discomfit its attacker, a German cruiser, long enough to ensure its destruction by its pursuers.

* Arek Hersh, German Nazi Holocaust survivor and writer

One survivor of D-Day said that " A German soldier actually saluted us on our way to the objective.

* Orli Wald ( 1914 – 1962 ), German Resistance member, concentration camp survivor, " Angel of Auschwitz "

Adolf Maislinger ( December 9, 1903, Munich – April 26, 1985, Munich ) was a member of the German Resistance and was a survivor of Dachau concentration camp.

He served as a courier, bodyguard and telephone operator for German leader Adolf Hitler from 1940 to 1945., aged, he is the last living survivor of the occupants of the Führerbunker in the final days of the war in Europe.

* Peter Gingold, German Resistance figure and Holocaust survivor