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He drowned in 1924 while swimming off the coast of Brittany, France, near Batz-sur-Mer, and is buried there.
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He worked as a practicing engineer until the end of his life, when, in August 1924, at the age of 67, he drowned while swimming in the Kings River east of Fresno.
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Her friend, Acerronia Polla, was attacked by oarsmen while still in the water, and was either bludgeoned to death or drowned, since she was exclaiming that she was Agrippina, with the intention of being saved, unfortunately she did not know that this was an attempt of Agrippina's life, not a mere accident.
Alexander managed to suppress the uprising, and Taurinus drowned while attempting to flee across the Euphrates.
Realising his tactical mistake had contributed to Tallard's defeat in the centre, Clérambault deserted Blenheim and the 27 battalions defending the village, and reportedly drowned in the Danube while attempting to make his escape.
When news came that the local vicar had drowned while trying to save victims of the shipwreck, Squire Cobtree offered the post to Christopher Syn.
His term as Prime Minister was brought to an early and dramatic end in December 1967 when he disappeared while swimming at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria, and was presumed drowned.
Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.
She is also associated with the practice of sailors bringing gold with them on any voyage, so that if they drowned while at sea, Ran would be pleased by their gift.
However, Pausanias, quoting the Cypria, says that Odysseus and Diomedes drowned Palamedes, while he was fishing, and Dictys says that Odysseus and Diomedes lured Palamedes into a well, which they said contained gold, then stoned him to death.
One of their two transport planes missed its drop zone, and four SEALs drowned in a rain squall while making an airborne insertion with their boats off the island's coast.
It is subject to flooding and in 1628 one of the Usshers of Donnybrook Castle was drowned while trying to cross.
Others they drowned in the river or strung up around the battlements while Catherine and the court watched.
González's mother had drowned in November 1999 while attempting to leave Cuba with her son and her boyfriend to get to the United States.
Maxentius was among the dead, having drowned in the river while trying to swim across it in a desperate bid to escape or, alternatively, he is described as having been thrown by his horse into the river.
" John Lemprière in his Classical Dictionary ( 1827 ) wrote, " Some suppose that the Sirens were a number of lascivious women in Sicily, who prostituted themselves to strangers, and made them forget their pursuits while drowned in unlawful pleasures.
Harold Holt disappeared while swimming on 17 December 1967 and was declared presumed drowned two days later.
In the Battle of Crocus Field 6, 000 Phocians fell, while 3, 000 were taken as prisoners and later drowned.
The accused jumped into the sacred river, and the innocent swam while the guilty drowned.
As he dared not resort to open violence, he caused him to be drowned while he was bathing in Jericho.
According to Gregory of Tours ( 538 – 594 ), Chilperic II was slain by his brother Gundobad in 493, and his wife drowned with a stone hung around her neck, while of his two daughters, Chrona took the veil and Clotilde was exiled-it is, however, assumed that this tale is apocryphal.
The Normandie coast to the upper left is characterized by high, chalk cliffs, while the Brittany coast ( the peninsula to the left ) is highly indented where deep valleys were drowned by the sea, and the Biscay coast to the southwest is marked by flat, sandy beaches.
He broke down while accompanying Rajah Brooke during a battle with pirates, but the noise drowned out his blubbering, and he recovered enough to command a storming party of sailors ( placing himself right in the middle of the party, to avoid stray bullets ).
" Kusky characterizes lagoons as normally being elongated parallel to the coast, while estuaries are usually drowned river valleys, elongated perpendicular to the coast.
The only tradition specifically attached to Tiberinus is that he was drowned while crossing the river then known as the Albula, but which was ever after known to the Latins as the Tiber.
In the Dinnsenchus, there is an ancient and heartwrenching story about Cleena, wherein ' it is related that she was a foreigner from Fairy-land, who, coming to Ireland, was drowned while sleeping on the strand at the harbour of Glandore in South Cork.
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Their first child, Christopher, aged 2, drowned in the swimming pool of next-door neighbor W. C. Fields.
He drowned in his swimming pool after suffering a heart attack.
When several oxen were moved at once, the canoeist guided a lead animal with a rope so that the others would follow ; if, however, the lead animal became confused and started swimming in circles, the other animals followed until they tired and eventually drowned.
Named after Riley Jean Tomlinson, a local toddler who accidentally drowned in a swimming pool, the park was built in 2001 and contains two-and three-story wooden castles and other structures for children's play ( along with swings, slides, and similar playground equipment ).
He was found drowned in his own swimming pool by his second wife of nine years, Sue Haldeman-Julius.
Wheeler's youngest son died shortly after his return from serving in Cuba ; he drowned while swimming in the ocean.
On 23 June 1843, his 21 year-old son, William Gaisford, drowned while swimming in the river Thames at Sandford Lock-a notoriously dangerous spot.
Less than a year after he returned home, he suffered a heart attack and drowned in his swimming pool.
While trying to swimming ashore, both the cat and the mouse drowned and became the two islands ; the dog reached the beach, then died and become the hill Khao Tang Kuan.
On June 4, 1968, eleven days before his 13th birthday, Kennedy nearly drowned while he and his siblings were swimming in the Pacific Ocean near the Malibu, California beach house of a Kennedy family friend, Hollywood film director John Frankenheimer.
On April 16, 1973, while on a concert tour, Kertész drowned while swimming off the coast of Israel at Herzliya.
One of his daughters, Líf, drowned in a swimming accident off the coast of Sweden in 1947, aged only eighteen, and he wrote his string quartet Vita et Mors in her memory.
Haldeman-Julius drowned in his swimming pool July 31, 1951.
She was found dead in her swimming pool by Funck-Brentano and is believed to have drowned.
Pinned against the Orontes, the elements remaining of the Hittites not overtaken in the withdrawal were forced to abandon their chariots and attempt to swim the Orontes ( This flight is depicted in Egyptian inscriptions as " hurried " to say the least —" as fast as Crocodiles swimming "), where many of them drowned.
The college arms are modelled closely on the arms of the Trevelyan family, whose crest features a swimming horse, commemorating the legend of the first Trevelyan, who swum his horse from St Michael's Mount to the mainland of Cornwall for a wager, the other knights of Arthur's court having drowned.
Danny hit Pat with his car and then drowned in the Williams ' swimming pool after trying to attack Julie.
Susan Sullivan appeared in all the episodes of the series for eight seasons, plus the first two episodes of the final season at which point Maggie was killed when she drowned in a swimming pool.
In July 2006 in a swimming pool at the university's Walsall campus, a disabled rugby player drowned whilst not being supervised properly by lifeguards and managers, an inquest jury ruled.
On September 21 2009 her son Kevin drowned in a swimming accident in Georgia, USA.
Minutes later, he died of a heart attack and drowned in their swimming pool.
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