According to one origin myth, a boy went into the forest to collect honey, was stung by bees, and fell from a tree.

Some Americans supported the FBI, but others argued that Abscam was an entrapment scenario ordered by a revenge-minded FBI who earlier had been stung by Congressional inquiries into acts of police brutality and similar widespread abuses.

With the invention of the metal lipstick container as well as compact mirrors bee stung lips came into vogue.

The Novatianists suffered perhaps even more fearfully than the orthodox and some of them were stung into a desperate resistance: those of Constantinople removing the materials of their church to a distant suburb of the city ; those at Mantinium in Paphlagonia daring to face the imperial soldiers sent to expel them from their home.

Beyazid was stung into furious action and when Timur invaded Anatolia from the east, hurried back from Europe in order to confront fast moving Timur somewhere in the west of Turkey.

Once its prey has been stung and killed, a triffid will root itself beside the body and feed on it as it decomposes by tearing at its softened flesh with its stinger and pulling the rotting meat into its funnel.

Mushizo sends massive swarms of hornets after Jubei but is defeated when he falls into the lake, and is stung to death by the hornets as they try and escape from the nest in his back, with Jubei dealing the final blow.

On July 21, 2010, around 150 people are thought to have been stung by the remains of a lion's mane jellyfish that had broken up into countless pieces in Rye, New Hampshire in the United States.

Then, Thomas J. goes into the forest to look for Vada's mood ring and finds it, but gets stung by the bees and dies of an allergic reaction.

When he catches a glimpse of a mysterious woman en route to her wedding, he is instantly obsessed by her beauty, and ― despite the presence of his lover Samantha Taylor ― follows the woman to the church where he crashes into a police cruiser and is stung by a bee.

Nataraja Guru believed that science had unwittingly followed Marxism into a materialist desert and that stung by the horrors of the Inquisition, western science had turned its back on metaphysics for hundreds of years.

I suppose Butterworth's words stung me and, anyhow, I looked out some sketches I had made for ... a symphonic poem about London and decided to throw it into symphonic form ... From that moment, the idea of a symphony dominated my mind.

Gough later wrote that he feared the Sikhs might bombard his encampments overnight, though some of his officers believed he had merely been stung into hasty action.

Barillian Bugs are insect monsters that once attacked KO-35 turning whoever it stung into Barillian Bug Monsters.

After an unspeakable siege, lasting the better part of two months, it was announced that the studio `` owed '' the government a tax debt in excess of eight million dollars while I, who had always remained aloof from such iniquitous practices as paying taxes on the salary I had earned and the little I legally inherited as Morris' helpless relict, was `` stung '' with a personal bill of such astronomical proportions as to `` wipe out '' all but a fraction of my poor, hard-come-by savings.

This bird was stung on the first five tries, but by ten bees, it was as adept at handling bees as adult birds.

Longley spent two lackluster seasons with Phoenix, where he gained less attention for his play than for being stung twice by a scorpion while sitting on the floor of his home sorting through his CD collection .< sup > 1 </ sup > ( Longley also had difficulties with bodysurfing-he managed to separate his shoulder and miss 18 games in 1997.

When the horse stops near a dwelling, Trinity gets up, pulls on his boots, gets stung by a scorpion hiding in the boot but is clearly insusceptible to the venom then he drags his Colt 45 in holster and walks inside.

The symbiosis between anemonefish and anemones depends on the presence of the fish drawing other fish to the anemone, where they are stung by its venomous tentacles.

" This remark stung Racine to the quick ; he turned not only on his old master, but on all Port Royal, in a scathing reply, which — as Boileau told him — did more honour to his head than to his heart.

Moved and stung to the quick, the soldiers settled the mutiny on the spot by general court martial conducted by the tribunes.

The captured prey are stung and paralyzed before being placed in the nest, and then a single egg is deposited on the prey within each cell.

Tawhai claimed his fellow commissioners were not impartial and had been the " very men who had created the trouble on the West Coast " ( Fox and Bell had both been Native Minister ), but he may also have been stung by Te Whiti's description of the commission as " two pākehā and a dog ".

In the early 1990s, Applewhite posted some of his teachings on the Internet, but he was stung by the resulting criticism.

Kennedy, stung by the entire issue, commissioned a detailed report by Richard Neustadt on the events and what lessons could be learned from them.

" France stung by new report on anti-Semitism ," United Press International, October 20, 2004.

He quit his position as a team captain on the BBC quiz A Question of Sport in 2003, when he was apparently stung by a question from a participant as to when he retired from riding.

** Ironically, a comic where Steve woke up after convalescing from injuries sustained from a crocodile appeared on the same day that Steve Irwin died after being stung by a stingray.

Schmidt has published a number of papers on the subject and claims to have been stung by the majority of stinging Hymenoptera.

According to legend, Captain John Smith was stung on by a stingray there while exploring the bay.

In August 1998, seven children from London on a course run by a special needs charity were taken to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital after being stung by a swarm of non-native Median wasps.

Bhishma, stung by this unfair charge, fell on the Pandava army with renewed vigour.

The high number of bathers found on popular tourist beaches in these areas means that stings are common although individual chances of being stung are low.

At first many victims believe they have simply scratched themselves on a sharp stone or shell, although this barely hurts, significant pain begins about 2 – 3 minutes after being stung.

Nevertheless, most victims do survive, and out of 62 people treated for Irukandji envenomation in Australia in 1996, almost half could be discharged home with few or no symptoms after 6 hours, and only two remained hospitalized approximately a day after they were stung.

However, all scorpions are able to penetrate human skin and deliver sharp, unpleasant stings, most of which usually leave redness around the stung area.

Two biting satires, one by Œcolampadius and the other by Willibald Pirckheimer, stung him to a fury which would be satisfied with nothing less than the public burning of the entire literature in the market-place at Ingolstadt, an act from which he was restrained by his colleague Reuchlin.

" which Hergé translates as " Qui s ' y frotte s ' y pique " " Who rubs himself there gets stung " ( in fact, the motto of Nancy, from the Latin non inultus premor, referring to its emblem, the thistle ; in the British edition, the translators rendered the motto " If you gather Thistles, expect Prickles ").

The general distress occasioned by their drastic reforms had found expression in swarms of pamphlets which bit and stung the Cap government, under the protection of the new press laws.

He found that they are all ( metals and living tissues ) benumbed by cold, intoxicated by alcohol, wearied by excessive work, stupefied by anaesthetics, excited by electric currents, stung by physical blows and killed by poison — they all exhibit essentially the same phenomena of fatigue and depression, together with possibilities of recovery and of exaltation, yet also that of permanent irresponsiveness which is associated with death — they all are responsive or irresponsive under the same conditions and in the same manner.

Two comedic dragons that appeared in Dragon Magazine # 156: The Pink Dragon, which had a cone breath weapon of bubbles ( stung the eyes ); and the Paper Dragon which looked like an dog-sized folded paper dragon, and when slain its remains became several spell scrolls.

In 1944 the SU-85 was quickly made obsolete by the arrival of the new T-34 / 85, but the Soviets, still stung by StuGs and by hard-hitting German tanks, created the SU-100 and ISU-152 which offered more firepower to deal with heavier German tanks.

The two are about to share a tender moment when Scully is stung by a bee which had lodged itself under her shirt collar.

Wolcot, who wrote under the nom-de-plume of " Peter Pindar ", had a remarkable vein of humour and wit, which, while intensely comic to persons not involved, stung its subjects to the quick.

In common with most Corydoras the dorsal, pectoral and adipose fins have an additional sharp barb and have a mild poison which causes fish which try to attack them to get stung.

When night falls, they stop and rest and make a campfire using pinecones, in which Grabelski accidentally takes a beehive and mistakes it as a pinecone and is stung a number of times.