* Death of Absalom-Joab and Absalom

For him Mercer produced the lyric to `` Out Of Breath Scared To Death Of You '', introduced in that most successful of all the Gaieties, by Sterling Holloway.

He campaigned successfully for the riddance of `` Death Avenue '' and also brought about the ending of pollution of metropolitan beaches by sewage.

O'Banion was born in poverty, the son of an immigrant Irish plasterer, in the North Side's Little Hell, close by the Sicilian quarter and Death Corner.

In the 1940s, Joan appeared on-stage in an Agatha Christie play, Appointment with Death, which was seen by Christie who wrote in a note to her, " I hope one day you will play my dear Miss Marple ".

" The Abbot ", from the Dance of Death, by Hans Holbein the Younger

Death was simply a temporary interruption, rather than complete cessation, of life, and that eternal life could be ensured by means like piety to the gods, preservation of the physical form through mummification, and the provision of statuary and other funerary equipment.

* Death and Afterlife: Perspectives of World Religions edited by Hiroshi Obayashi, Praeger, 1991

* Beyond Death: Theological and Philosophical Reflections on Life after Death edited by Dan Cohn-Sherbok and Christopher Lewis, Pelgrave-MacMillan, 1995

* The Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection by Jane Idelman Smith and Yazbeck Haddad, Oxford UP, 2002

* Life After Death: A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion by Alan F. Segal, Doubleday, 2004

The Death of Caesar, by Jean-Léon Gérôme ( 1867 ).

Up until the 1950s, Abensberg and the surrounding villages contained a number of graves of victims of a Death March in the Spring of 1945 from the Hersbruck sub-camp of the Dachau concentration camp, who were either murdered by the SS or died of exhaustion.

Ambrose also wrote a treatise by the name of " The Goodness of Death ".

However, in Bernini's tomb, the vigorous upraised arm and posture of the pope is counterbalanced by an active drama below, wherein the figures of Charity and Justice are either distracted by putti or lost in contemplation, while skeletal Death actively writes the epitaph.

Plate armour became cheaper than mail by the 15th century as it required much less labour and labour had become much more expensive after the Black Death, though it did require larger furnaces to produce larger blooms.

The Death of Adonis, by Giuseppe Mazzuoli ( 1644-1725 ) | Giuseppe Mazzuoli, 1709-Hermitage Museum

This bodyguard was killed by an improvised explosive device | IED during Abdul Sattar Abu Risha # Death | Sheik Abdul Sattar Abu Risha's assassination in 2007

The Death of Amnon poem by Elizabeth Hands

Law professor Ken Gromley's book The Death of American Virtue reveals that Clinton escaped a 1996 assassination attempt in the Philippines by terrorists working for Osama bin Laden.

' Death and dementia shadow the album, tempered by tenderness and wicked gallows humor.

The late author Sheldon H. Harris in his book " Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American cover up " wrote that, The test program, could be part of Project AGILE or Project OCONUS which began in fall 1962 and which was funded at least through fiscal year 1963, was considered by the Chemical Corps to be “ an ambitious one .” The tests were designed to cover “ not only trials at sea, but Arctic and tropical environmental tests as well .” The tests, presumably, were conducted at what research officers designated, but did not name, “ satellite sites .” These sites were located both in the continental United States and in foreign countries.

The weaponized threat comes mainly in the form of pneumonic plague ( infection by inhalation ) It was the disease that caused the Black Death in Medieval Europe.

Gustave Doré, The Death of Agag.

* 1894 in art-Birth of James Thurber, Norman Rockwell, Death of Gustave Caillebotte

* 1877 in art-Birth of Marsden Hartley, Kees van Dongen, Death of Gustave Courbet

* 1848 in art-Birth of Paul Gauguin, Gustave Caillebotte, Death of Thomas Cole

* Gustave Moreau-The Death of Darius

In Thomas Mann's 1912 novella Death in Venice ( as well as the opera by Benjamin Britten and the film by Luchino Visconti ) a fop is derided by the main character, Gustave von Aschenbach ; ironically so, as Aschenbach ultimately dresses in this manner himself.

Gustave Doré, The Death of Athaliah.

The Death of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, by Gustave Doré.

The Death of Abimelech by Gustave Doré.

Faithful Unto Death – Christianæ ad Leones ( Christians to the Lions ), by Herbert Gustave Schmalz.

After his full sister Tamar was raped by Amnon, their half-brother and David's eldest son, Absalom waited two years and avenged her by sending his servants to murder Amnon at a feast to which he had invited all the king's sons.

While at Jerusalem, Absalom built support for himself among the populace by promising justice for all " if only I were appointed judge in the land ", and by showing humility by kissing those who approached him rather than accepting supplication.

Absalom himself was caught by his head in the boughs of an oak-tree as the mule he was riding ran beneath it-an irony given that he was previously renowned for his abundant hair and handsome head.

Joab avenged David by fatally striking and killing Absalom, by the use of three spears, followed by a group of swordsmen, an act that caused David great sorrow.

Another monument near Jerusalem ( not the modern " Absalom Tomb "-" Yad Avshalom " which is of later origin ) was erected by Absalom in his lifetime to perpetuate his name ():

* Absalom and Achitophel ( 1681 ) is a landmark poetic political satire by John Dryden.

* " Absaloms Abfall " by Rainer Maria Rilke (" The Fall of Absalom ," trans.

* Absalom is the name of a short science fiction story by Henry Kuttner about the conflict between a father and son over the son's education.

* Absalom is the name given to the caterpillar by screenwriter Linda Woolverton in Disney's " Alice in Wonderland ," directed by Tim Burton.

* " Absalom, Absalom " is the title of a song on the 1996 Compass CD Making Light of It by singer / songwriter Pierce Pettis, incorporating several elements of the biblical narrative.

* During the finale of the song Distant Early Warning by Canadian band Rush, Geddy Lee sings, " Absalom Absalom Absalom.

* In " Every Kind Word " by Lackthereof, Danny Seim's project parallel to Menomena, Seim sings "... and your hair is long like Absalom.

* " Absalom " is an album by the Experimental / Progressive band " Stick Men " featuring Tony Levin, Markus Reuter and Pat Mastelotto.

* One of Willie Trombone's letters in The Neverhood reads, " Hang me from a tree by my hoop so I can play ' Absalom '".