Learn from history '5 most disappointing ways to die'
Death comes to everyone equally, but there are many different ways of dying. History of Yesterday, a history-themed news site, explained '5 particularly disappointing ways to die' in the last days of a person whose name remains in history and records.
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◆ 1: Death from my own beard
The Austrian city of Braunau am Inn , located on the border with Germany, is famous as the fabric of Adolf Hitler , but has produced another celebrity. It is Hans Steininger, who was the mayor of Braunau am Inn in the 16th century.
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Steininger was not only an excellent political skill loved by the citizens, but also a fine beard with a length of 137 cm. Steininger's beard was usually carefully wrapped and put in his pocket, but when a fire broke out in September 1567, the beard popped out of his pocket. Steininger, who was in a hurry in the fire, slipped on his beard from his pocket and fell off the stairs, broke his neck and died.
The citizens of Braunau am Inn, who lamented Steininger's death, decided to cut their beards, chemically treat them and store them in a local museum before giving Steininger's funeral. The Braunau am Inn museum, built by the Inn River, is said to have Steininger's beard on display at the time of writing the article.
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◆ 2: Too polite and dead
Tycho Brahe is a Danish astronomer who made extremely accurate astronomical observations for the 16th century. Telescopes were not yet invented in Brae's time, but Brae discovered more than 1000 new stars, including supernovae, with nautical tools, his own eyes, and mathematical calculations alone.
Born as a Danish aristocrat, Brae had a very polite personality. Therefore, when I had a urge to urinate while attending a banquet held in Prague, I didn't go to the bathroom thinking that it would be very rude to leave the seat on the way. Brae, who put up with urine too much, was able to urinate very little when he got home, which caused
◆ 3: I laughed too much and died
Kurishipposu is, dominating in ancient Greece of the 3rd century BC Stoic philosopher, we have met with credit enough to be referred to as a 'Kurishipposu did not even Stoic if there are no'. The 'if-then statement ', which is commonly used in modern programming languages and spreadsheet software, is also part of the propositional logic created by Crisippos.
The Stoic philosophy developed by Christianos is also the origin of the word 'stoic,' but Christians' own end was not very stoic. One day, when a donkey was eating figs, Krisippos was said to have laughed until he lost consciousness and died at the age of 73.
◆ 4: Command the orchestra and die
Jean-Baptiste Lully is an Italian-born French musician. In addition to being famous as a composer, he was also an art genius blessed with various talents such as playing the violin and guitar, opera and dance. In 1660, Luri, who was appointed as court chapel master by King Louis XIV of the time, lived a smooth life as a musician, but in 1687 he died due to an unexpected mistake. Will be.
One day, Luri, who was conducting the orchestra for Louis XIV, accidentally dropped the baton on his foot. Ruri was seriously injured because the musicians at that time were conducting while hitting the ground with a heavy baton made of metal or wood instead of the light baton that modern conductors wield. I have.
The wound on Ruri's leg gradually worsened, and he had to amputate his leg due to infection from the wound, but Ruri, a master dancer, refused to amputate his leg, saying 'I want to dance again.' The infectious disease eroded the whole body and died in March 1687, two months after the injury. The concert that triggered Luri's death was ironically a celebration of Louis XIV's recovery from illness.
◆ 5: Died from a self-made alarm clock
A man named Sam Wardel, who lived in New York in the 1880s, was obsessed with the task of turning on and off streetlights at night. Streetlights at the time didn't have the ability to turn on and off automatically, so someone had to get up early in the morning to turn them off. However, thinking that an ordinary alarm clock would oversleep, Wardel decided to install a homemade alarm system in his room.
Wardel's alarm system connects an ordinary alarm clock to a wall-mounted shelf with a wire and places a stone weighing 10 pounds on the shelf. If you couldn't wake up before the alarm clock was activated, the wires would be pulled and the shelves and stones would fall to the floor, making a loud noise.
One day, Wardel, who had a party in his room, moved his bed under the shelves to make room. And when the party was over, I sneaked into my bed and fell asleep. Drunk at the party, Wardel completely forgot to put the bed back under the shelf, so the stone that fell from the shelf hit Wardel's head the next morning. Due to the proper operation of his own alarm clock, Wardel fell asleep forever without waking up.
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