It was the first American war in which the death rate from disease was lower than that from battle, due to the provision of trained medical personnel ( of the 200,000 officers, 42,000 were physicians ), compulsory vaccination, rigorous camp sanitation, and adequate hospital facilities.

-- Indonesia Military Supreme Court has confirmed the death sentence passed on Alan Lawrence Pope, an American pilot.

`` You see, first of all and in a sense as the source of all other ills, the unshakeable American commitment to the principle of unconditional surrender: The tendency to view any war in which we might be involved not as a means of achieving limited objectives in the way of changes in a given status quo, but as a struggle to the death between total virtue and total evil, with the result that the war had absolutely to be fought to the complete destruction of the enemy's power, no matter what disadvantages or complications this might involve for the more distant future ''.

* 1866 – Allen Lard, American golfer ( death date unknown )

* 1874 – Otto Steffen, American gymnast ( death date unknown )

Over the past 25 years there have been 24 crocodile attacks with 4 fatalities, including the death of American tourist Lauren Failla.

* 1873 – Ernst Reckeweg, American gymnast ( death date unknown )

" It ends in death, and sets the stage for an album populated by rogues, con men, outcasts, gamblers, gunfighters and desperados, many of them with nothing to lose, some of them out of their minds, all of them quintessentially American.

Berenson died at age 53 in the September 11 attacks aboard American Airlines Flight 11, one day before the ninth anniversary of Perkins ' death.

Twelve years later, in 1971, Don McLean released his single, " American Pie ”, to commemorate Buddy Holly ’ s death and further accentuate the loss of the United States ’ innocence.

Like other American tales of banshees, this legend does not connect her to any particular death ( aside, perhaps, from her own ).

* Death Penalty Focus: American group dedicated to abolishing the death penalty

* 1944 – Glenn Miller, American musician ( presumed date of death ) ( b. 1904 )

Deicide is an American death metal band formed in 1987.

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Category: American prisoners sentenced to death

' To recall the 30th anniversary of Vertov's death, three New York cultural organizations put on the first American retrospective of Vertov's work.

Indeed, at common law when the British and American legal systems divorced in 1776, felonies were crimes for which the punishment was either death or forfeiture of property.

Beginning in the 1790s, the ports of Stonington and New Haven, Connecticut were leaders of the American fur seal trade, which primarily entailed clubbing fur seals to death on uninhabited South Pacific islands, skinning them, and selling the hides in China.

The American Academy of Pediatrics ( AAP ) advises that keeping a gun in the home, especially a handgun increases the risk of injury and death for children and youth in the home.

Notable names in mid-century modern design include Adrian Frutiger, designer of the typefaces Univers and Frutiger ; Paul Rand, who, from the late 1930s until his death in 1996, took the principles of the Bauhaus and applied them to popular advertising and logo design, helping to create a uniquely American approach to European minimalism while becoming one of the principal pioneers of the subset of graphic design known as corporate identity ; and Josef Müller-Brockmann, who designed posters in a severe yet accessible manner typical of the 1950s and 1970s era.

Independent from the British scene, the late 1970s and early 1980s saw death rock branch off from American punk in California.

Journalist Kevin Stewart-Panko argues that the American grindcore of the 1990s borrowed from three sources: British grindcore, the American precursors, and death metal.

In the later years of his life and during the years after his death he was recognized, if at all, as only a minor figure in American literature.

* Bobby Ellsworth, American thrash metal musician known as Blitz

* Cortical Tectonics, the third studio album by American progressive metal band Canvas Solaris.

* Chimaira, an American heavy metal band from Cleveland, Ohio

Sometimes non-monetized bullion coins such as the Canadian Maple Leaf and the American Gold Eagle are minted with nominal face values less than the value of the metal in them, but as such coins are never intended for circulation, these value numbers are not market but fiat values.

* Down ( band ), an American southern heavy metal supergroup

* 1971 – Merritt Gant, American thrash metal guitarist ( Overkill )

Modern bullion coins for investment or collector purposes do not require good mechanical wear properties ; they are typically fine gold at 24k, although the American Gold Eagle and the British gold sovereign continue to be minted in 22k metal in historical tradition.

Sore Throat cites Discharge, Disorder, and a variety of European D-beat and thrash metal groups, including Hellhammer, and American hardcore groups, such as Poison Idea and DRI.

American groups also often employ riffs taken from crossover thrash or thrash metal.

* Opprobrium ( band ), American death metal band from Louisiana originally known as Incubus

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* Morpheus ( band ) an American death metal band formed in 1990, changed name to Morpheus Descends in 1992

* Morpheus ( band ) an American thrash metal band formed in 1992

Around the time of the American Civil War, syrup makers started using large, flat sheet metal pans as they were more efficient for boiling than heavy, rounded iron kettles, because of a greater surface area for evaporation.

Norman Hackerman ( March 2, 1912 – June 16, 2007 ) was an American chemist, internationally known as an expert in metal corrosion, and a former president of both the University of Texas at Austin ( 1967 – 1970 ) and Rice University ( 1970 – 1985 ).

* American progressive metal band Symphony X interprets multiple scenes of the epic in their song, The Odyssey ( 2002 ).

Composite forged metal frames were preferred by many European makers until the American system was fully adopted by the early 20th century.

American bands whose loud, repetitive psychedelic rock emerged as early heavy metal included Ted Nugent's Amboy Dukes and Steppenwolf.

Not only were there rival machines with " down-stroke " and " frontstroke " positions that gave a visible printing point, the problem of typebar clashes could be circumvented completely: examples include Thomas Edison's 1872 electric print-wheel device which later became the basis for Teletype machines ; Lucien Stephen Crandall's typewriter ( the second to come onto the American market ) whose type was arranged on a cylindrical sleeve ; the Hammond typewriter of 1887 which used a semi-circular " type-shuttle " of hardened rubber ( later light metal ); and the Blickensderfer typewriter of 1893 which used a type wheel.

As of August 31, 2011, Rush switched their American distribution from Atlantic Records over to the Warner Brothers majority-owned metal label, Roadrunner Records.