Perec's father, who enlisted in the French Army during World War II, died in 1940 from unattended gunfire or shrapnel wounds, and Perec's mother perished in the Nazi Holocaust, probably in Auschwitz after 1943.

This may be in part due to a significant number of copies of Ogilby's first edition probably perished in the Great Fire of London of 1666.

The group of 19 drifted on an ice floe for the next six months over before being rescued off the coast of Newfoundland by the sealer Tigress on April 30, 1873, and probably would have all perished had the group not included several Inuit who were able to hunt for the party.

She perished, probably of malnutrition, on October 18, 33 AD.

The Contrasto is probably a scholarly re-elaboration of a lost popular rhyme and is the closest to a kind of poetry that perished or was smothered by the ancient Sicilian literature.

Although some reports put the number as low as forty, the Spanish probably lost around 100 soldiers in the siege, while thousands of Tlaxcalans perished.

But before he perished, Fedotov had produced his, probably, best works imbued with a feeling of desperate sorrow gradually growing until it reached its climax in the Encore, Encore !, Gamblers, and Young Widow.

The effects are described by Zosimus as even worse than the earlier Antonine plague ( 166-80 ), which probably killed 15-30 % of the empire's inhabitants.

J. F. Gilliam believes that the Antonine plague probably caused more deaths than any other epidemic during the empire before the mid-3rd century.

The first one was the plague, which lasted from 541 to 543 and, by decimating the Empire's population, probably created a scarcity of labor and a rising of wages.

Baltic Old Prussian probably ceased to be spoken around the beginning of the 18th century due to many of its remaining speakers dying in the famines and bubonic plague epidemics harrowing the East Prussian countryside and towns from 1709 until 1711.

When he caught an epidemic disease ( probably plague ), he called the monks, strengthened their faith, and appointed his successor.

The earliest recorded invasion of the plague into Spanish territory was in Majorca in December 1347, probably through commercial ships.

His army was probably laden with booty from plunder ; a plague broke out in northern Italy ; food shortages may also be responsible for Attila ´ s withdrawal, as well as military actions of the Eastern Emperor Marcianus on the Danube frontier.

* The Faradda di li candareri ( The Descent of the Candelieri ): it's a devotional procession, in which enormous wooden candles are carried by members of the city guilds from the town centre to the church of Santa Maria of Betlem, in commemoration of the end of the plague in 1582, but it probably has older origins, from a cultural tradition from Pisa that as early as in the second half of the 13th century was practiced in some parts of Sardinia.

One of the earls created in 1337, William de Bohun, Earl of Northampton, died in 1360, and the next year Henry of Grosmont, perhaps the greatest of Edward's captains, succumbed to what was probably plague.

* A " pestilence " that is probably bubonic plague strikes the British Isles and makes the country vulnerable to internal revolts.

The plague, probably brought by foreign troops during the Great Northern War, killed 250, 000 East Prussians, especially in the province's eastern regions.

Giorgione died, probably of the plague then raging, by October, 1510.

The devastation caused by the Black Death plague of the 1340s caused the loss of nearly half of the English population ; Bishop Bateman himself lost nearly 700 of his parish priests, and so his decision to found a college was probably centred around a need to rebuild the priesthood.

Sylvatic plague ( Yersinia pestis ) probably does not directly affect black-footed ferrets, but epidemics in prairie dog towns may completely destroy the black-footed ferrets ' prey base.

Indeed, body lice are important vectors of epidemic or louse-borne typhus, trench fever, louse-borne relapsing fever, and probably even classical bubonic plague.

This group of Nothelfer (" helpers in need ") originated in the 14th century at first in the Rhineland, largely as a result of the epidemic ( probably of bubonic plague ) that became known as the Black Death.

Rossi probably died either in the invasion of Austrian troops, who defeated the Gonzagas and destroyed the Jewish ghetto in Mantua, or in the subsequent plague which ravaged the area.

Procopius recorded that, at its peak, the plague was killing 10, 000 people in Constantinople daily, but the accuracy of this figure is in question and the true number will probably never be known.

By birth an Anglo-Saxon, he became archbishop in 655 and held the office for more than nine years until his death, probably from the plague.

They took on a broad range of roles, including poetry and song, plague prevention, and spiritual purification ; actually, it was probably because of their ritualistic duties that they became the caretakers of the Heike Monogatari ( 平家物語 ).

He was active on many committees but probably the most important of these contributions was the Royal Commission to enquire into the nature and causes and methods of prevention of the cattle plague.

From the peak, numbers probably underwent a steep decline by 270 due to plague and losses during multiple major barbarian invasions.

Most likely he died in 1557, probably a victim of the serious outbreak of plague in Béthune that year.

He died in 1361, probably of the plague, and was laid to rest in an impressive tomb in Lingfield church.

Dürer probably also visited Padua and Mantua on this trip.

In 1933, Thomas visited London for probably the first time.

While the island has probably been sighted by navigators since at least the 16th century, it takes its name from the British ship Europa, which visited it in December 1774.

Le Corbusier visited MIT in, an occasion which powerfully affected Pei: " The two days with Le Corbusier, or ' Corbu ' as we used to call him, were probably the most important days in my architectural education.

According to Anderson, Oxford definitely visited Venice, Padua, Milan, Genoa, Palermo, Florence, Siena and Naples, and probably passed through Messina, Mantua and Verona, all cities used as settings by Shakespeare.

Ernesto Grillo's book Shakespeare and Italy ( 1949 ) argued that he probably visited northern Italy sometime around 1591-2.

While his father visited his lands from Scotland to France, Richard probably stayed in England.

Stephen probably first visited England in either 1113 or 1115, almost certainly as part of Henry's court.

Traders from Arabia, the Persian Gulf region of modern-day Iran ( especially Shiraz ), and west India probably visited Zanzibar as early as the 1st century.

He had been taken as a young child to Hungary, and in 1054 Bishop Ealdred of Worcester visited the Holy Roman Emperor, Henry III to secure his return, probably with a view to becoming Edward's heir.

c. 325 BC, a Greek explorer Pytheas probably visited Estonia.

He very probably also visited Florence in this period.

He had visited the Byzantine court as an official ambassador and probably knew more about Byzantine affairs than any other Latin chronicler.

Most shires were visited by a group of royal officers ( legati ), who held a public inquiry, probably in the great assembly known as the shire court, which was attended by representatives of every township as well as of the local lords.

That winter, Holbein probably visited northern Italy, though no record of the trip survives.

Holbein visited France in 1524, probably to seek work at the court of Francis I.

After 1942, Canaris visited Spain frequently and was probably in contact with British agents from Gibraltar.

He was selected by Peter to captain the first Kamchatka expedition, an expedition set to sail north from Russian outposts on the Kamchatka peninsula, probably with the greatest emphasis on mapping the new areas visited ( and particularly establishing Asia and America shared a land border ).

No series of semisses are attested for these two mints, probably because the semisses were typically minted by the mint of Rome and this mint was not active under Majorian, who never visited the ancient capital of his Empire during his four years of rule.

Over 200 years passed and the Mississippian Indian culture disappeared, devastated by disease, but the Indian town named Chicasa which De Soto visited was probably the ancestral home of the Chickasaws who still lived in the area when Anglo-Americans began showing up.

The Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum is therefore probably the most well-known and visited site in the city.

In 1857 Elisabeth visited Hungary for the first time with her husband and two daughters, and it left a deep and lasting impression upon her, probably because in Hungary she found a welcome respite from the constraints of Austrian court life.

The Slavs, the Arabs and the Byzantines knew them as the Rus ' or Rhōs, probably derived from various uses of rōþs -, i. e. " related to rowing ", or derived from the area of Roslagen in east-central Sweden, where most of the Norsemen who visited the Slavic lands came from.

The keep was designed not only for defence but also to provide comfortable living quarters, which were probably intended for use by the archbishops when they visited Rochester.