But the fighting marshal's fifty-year run of immunity from violent death came to a full and final stop one night in a street at Cromwell, Oklahoma, where he had been sent to clean up the gambling and vice rackets.

The defeat and death of Adolf of Nassau at the hands of Albert of Habsburg also worked to the disadvantage of the English, for all the efforts to revive the anti-French coalition came to nothing when Philip made an alliance with the new king of the Romans.

Jonathan's letter came, as she knew it would, and he had accepted their child's death as another judgment from God against both Kate and himself.

Juanita drooped about the place, wearing a haunted, brooding look, which Kate attributed to the baby's death, until the day a letter came for her addressed to `` Miss Juanita Fitzroy '', bearing a Grafton postmark.

Following Mr. Brown's death, there came forward in the Brown & Sharpe organization many other men who contributed greatly to the development of the company.

First came the cannon fodder, white-clad civilians being driven into death as a massive human battering ram.

The fence, his only refuge when the metal death came roaring at him, was made of rails, all right, but the rails were protected by a thick screening of barbed wire that would rip his flesh if he pressed against it.

for as it was Christ, the Word of God, who came to rescue man, so it was disobedience to the word of God in the beginning that brought death into the world, and all our woe.

Following his death and the organisational deterioration of his empire, Asia Minor was ruled by a series of Hellenistic kingdoms which came under Roman control two hundred years later.

This marriage, which took place soon after the death of the Frankish ruler Theudebald in 555, is thought to reflect Audoin's decision to distance himself from the Byzantines, traditional allies of the Lombards, who had been lukewarm when it came to supporting Audoin against the Gepids.

Alboin came to the throne after the death of his father, sometime between 560 and 565.

The banishment of Ealdred's patron came shortly after the death of Ælfric Puttoc, the Archbishop of York.

He came to the throne after the ten years of confusion which followed the death of Archelaus I.

She came home on the death of her aunt in early November 1842, while her sisters were in Brussels.

Maximilian's sudden death came at a time when Dürer was concerned he was losing " my sight and freedom of hand " ( perhaps caused by arthritis ) and increasingly affected by the writings of Martin Luther.

As a renowned teacher of the Law and with hosts of disciples, who came from all sections of the Jewish world, Rav lived and worked in Sura until his death.

The death of his children caused ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá immense grief – in particular the death of his son Husayn Effendi came at a difficult time following the death of his mother and uncle.

The invasion of Persia was completed five years after the death of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad, and all of the Persian territories came under Arab control, though pockets of tribal resistance continued for centuries in the Afghan territories.

After Ray Wallace's death, his children came forward with a pair of wooden feet, which they said their father had used to fake the Bigfoot tracks in 1958.

Pascal had poor health especially after his eighteenth year and his death came just two months after his 39th birthday.

On the death of Ahaz, c. 715 BCE, his son Hezekiah followed a policy which Isaiah saw as dangerous, waging war on the Philistine cities and on Edom even though territory under direct Assyrian control ( i. e., the former kingdom of Israel ) now came to within a few miles of Jerusalem.

After the death of Jayavarman I in 681, turmoil came upon the kingdom and at the start of the 8th century, the kingdom broke up into many principalities.

His personal library, purchased after his death, eventually came to the University of Glasgow, where a commemorative exhibition of books from his library was held in 1974.

In those settings all types of FGM were found to pose an increased risk of death to the baby: 15 percent higher for Type I, 32 percent for Type II, and 55 percent for Type III.

It also succeeded in reducing the death rate of workers constructing the Tanganyika railway from 55 to 4 percent.

Even the often-advanced suggestion that quatrain I. 35 had successfully prophesied King Henri II's death did not actually appear in print for the first time until 1614, 55 years after the event.

The first Conclave of 1555, following the death of Julius III ( 1550 – 55 ), involved a struggle between French interests in Italy ( which had been favored by Julius III ) and Imperial interests, which were intent on Church reform through a Church council, but with the Emperor controlling the outcome.

The birth rate was estimated at 21. 84 births per 1, 000 population, and the death rate at 5. 55 deaths per 1, 000 population in the same year.

In stanzas 54 and 55 of the poem Völuspá, a völva tells Odin that his son Víðarr will avenge Odin's death at Ragnarök by stabbing Fenrir in the heart.

The exceptions to the 10 % penalty include: the employee's death, the employee's total and permanent disability, separation from service in or after the year the employee reached age 55, substantially equal periodic payments under section 72 ( t ), a qualified domestic relations order, and for deductible medical expenses ( exceeding the 7. 5 % floor ).

However, if 55 BC is Lucretius's most likely year of death, and if Jerome is accurate about Lucretius's age ( 43 ) when he died, it can then be concluded he was born in 99 or 98 BC.

Colo is the oldest living gorilla in captivity, following the death of 55 year old Jenny in September 2008.

On the day before his body was found, Calvi had been stripped of his post at Banco Ambrosiano by the Bank of Italy, and his 55 year old private secretary Graziella Corrocher had jumped to her death from a fifth floor window at Banco Ambrosiano.

The original skeleton, a female, stood at just 1 metre ( 3. 3 feet ) tall, weighed about 25 kilograms ( 55 pounds ), and was around 30 years old at the time of her death.

Bruce Wayne, now 55, has voluntarily retired from crime fighting following the death ( under unspecified circumstances ) of Jason Todd, the second Robin.

He died in London, aged 55, nearly a year before Oscar Wilde's death.

This system was the eventual cause of his death when he was accidentally entangled in the ropes of this device and died of strangulation at the age of 55.

This was rejected and Robert succeeded to the throne at the age of 55 following David's unexpected death in 1371.

After her father's death, she continued to live in the same house alone, but at the age of 55 she married Rupert Fordham, a local Justice of the Peace who was of high rank in the Salvation Army.

Tigranes continued to rule Armenia as an ally of Rome until his death in 55 / 54.

Pertwee often remarked ( such as in his interview for the Myth Makers series of video documentaries ) that Delgado's death at the age of 55 was one of the catalysts that led to his own departure from Doctor Who.

On 7 January 1989, at 07: 55 JST, the grand steward of Japan's Imperial Household Agency, Shōichi Fujimori, announced Emperor Shōwa's death, and revealed details about his cancer for the first time.

Thus, Ptolemy XII ruled Egypt from 80 to 58 BC and from 55 BC until his death in 51 BC.

In a review of the board's evidence and findings — solicited by the Navy and kept secret with the report until 2004 — Chairman of the American Psychiatric Association Dr. Winfred Overholser concluded that Forrestal " came to his death by suicide while in a state of mental depression ," but the report's own conclusions were seen to have been accurately reported 55 years earlier, that is simply that Forrestal died from the fall.

The time of his death or his age can not be fixed with certainty ; but at the dedication of the Theatre of Pompey in 55 BC, he would seem to have been elderly, for he was understood previously to have retired from the stage, and we do not hear of his being particularly delicate: yet, from the passage, ill-health or age would appear to have been the reason of his retiring.

However, respondents only favoured capital punishment for adult murder, the polling question asked by other organisations such as Gallup, by small majorities or pluralities: overall, 51 % favoured the death penalty for adult murder, while 56 % in Wales did, 55 % in Scotland, and only 49 % in England.