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Leopold III: marriage and offspring. Leopold was the founder of the branch of the dynasty from which all the Habsburgs of the Early Modern era were to trace their descent. In 1365 at the age of fourteen his brother Rudolf arranged for him to be married to Viridis Visconti, who was about his own age. The Visconti ruled over the extremely wealthy ...
Jan 12, 2024 · Their attorney, civil rights lawyer Ben Crump, says he believes many more people were buried under similar circumstances. "We know, based on the records from the coroner's office, that, since 2016 ...
Jan 23, 2020 · Within hours, a cloud of hot volcanic ash swept down the side of the famous Italian volcano, raced over the countryside, and smothered the town, along with nearby Pompeii. Hundreds died. Two new studies reveal, in gruesome detail, what happened to their bodies when the hot ash arrived. Excavations of Herculaneum in the 1980s and '90s uncovered ...
May 17, 2023 · The two skeletons were found in the insula of the Casti Amanti, beneath a wall that collapsed before the area was covered in volcanic material. An aerial view of the archaeological site of Pompeii taken during the sixth stage of the Giro d'Italia, tour of Italy cycling race, from Naples to Naples, Italy, Thursday, May 11, 2023.
Nov 24, 2020 · The bodies were found in an underground corridor, signaling that the pair sought refuge there before their deaths, falsely assuming that they would be safe from the fiery ash coursing through the villa. Their bodies remained preserved and undiscovered under 6 feet of ash for nearly 2,000 years.
Feb 3, 2024 · Hankins’ son, Jonathan David Hankins, 39, died of a drug overdose in May 2022, and his body went unclaimed for more than a year as family, friends and police searched for him. Without anyone notifying his mother of his death, he was buried in a grave marked only with a number: 645. He was one of several men who were buried without their ...
Jan 9, 2024 · A gruesome revelation in Mississippi is alarming residents of the state and raising calls for an investigation. After over 200 bodies were buried near a local jail in a predominantly Black county, questions are growing over who these people are, how they died and how they ended up in bare graves behind the jail.
