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King Swamp was a British rock band, consisting of Walter Wray (vocals), Dave Allen (bass), Steve Halliwell (keyboards), Dominic Miller (guitar), and Martyn Barker (drums). The band was formed in 1988 in London, after Allen and Barker had parted ways with Shriekback and recruited Wray as frontman. Halliwell and Mike Cozzi (featured on the second ...
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- 1988–1990
Columbia, South Carolina. Michael Godwin. 28. Initially sentenced to death by electrocution, but later reduced to a life sentence. He was accidentally electrocuted when he bit a pair of earphone wires while sitting on a metal toilet. [18] 19 January 1996. Los Angeles, California, United States. Don Simpson.
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Glenn stayed with Swamp People for several more seasons after losing his brother and was last seen in Season 11 in 2020. The 'Voddo Bayou' episode of 'Swamp People' originally aired on May 17 ...
Troy Landry Season 14 “King of the Swamp” Troy Landry is one of the most well-known and fearless alligator hunters in the bayou. As the son of a fisherman and seafood distributor, Troy has ...
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Tiberinus Silvius, ninth Latin king of Alba Longa, drowned in the Tiber, which was named after him.Hippasus of Metapontum, a student of the mathematician Pythagoras, who, by some accounts, was drowned by his fellow Pythagoreans for the imprudence of discovering irrational numbers.Qu Yuan of China in 278 BC. Committed ritual suicide as a form of protest against the corruption of the era, a sacrifice still commemorated today during the Duan Wu or Dragon BoatFestival.Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII of Egypt, drowned in the Nilein 47 BC.William Adelin (born 1103) and his half-sister Matilda FitzEdith, countess of Perches (born circa 1090), children of King Henry I of England, drowned in the Channel on 25 November 1120 in the White...Empress Zhu is believed to have committed suicide by drowning herself in 1127 after the Jingkang Incidentbecause she was a victim of sexual abuse.Taira no Koremori is believed to have committed suicide on May 10, 1184 after defeated at the Battle of Kurikara.Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter, Constable of the Tower of London, 1430 – 1475George, Duke of Clarence (born 1449), executed for treason against his brother king Edward IV of England on 1478, by drowning in a barrel of Malmsey wine; or so the legend says, because modern asse...Bartolomeu Dias, a Portuguese explorer who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope. Drowned not far from the Cape of Good Hope in 1500King Louis II of Hungary in the Csele Brook, on escape from the catastrophic Battle of Mohács(1526). Heavy cavalry armor impeded his ability to swim.John William Friso of Orange-Nassau, stadholder of the Low Countries, in 1711Miguel de Bragança (b. 1699), bastard son of King Peter II of Portugal, in the Tagus Riveron 13 January 1724Peter Artedi, a disciple of Linnaeus, considered the father of Ichthyology, fell by accident in a channel of Amsterdamin 1735172 passengers of shipwrecked vessel Le Saint Géran at Île D'Ambre off the coast of Isle de France (Mauritius)on 18 August 1744.Charles Clement Johnston, U.S. Representative from Virginia, drowned in the Potomac Rivernear Alexandria, Virginia in 1832.1900s
1. Consort Zhen (born 1876), consort of Guangxu Emperor, thrown into a well by Empress Dowager Cixi, August 15, 1900. 2. Isadore Rush (born ?), American actress. Drowned off the beach at San Diego, Hotel Del CoronadoNovember 1904. 3. Grace Brown (born 1886), American garment industry worker. She drowned in New York's Big Moose Lake on June 11, 1906, after she fell out of a boat being rowed by her boyfriend, Chester Gillette, nephew of her employer. Witnesses said Gillette had struck her on th...
1910s
1. Sir W. S. Gilbert (b. 1836), British humorist, librettist of the Gilbert and Sullivanoperas, drowned on 29 May 1911 while going to the rescue of two other swimmers in the lake at his home. He may have died from a heart attack rather than by drowning. 2. Michel Tamarati(born 1858), a Georgian Catholic priest and historian, died while trying to rescue a drowning man in a stormy sea near Santa Marinella, Italy, on September 16, 1911. 3. John Jacob Astor IV (born 1864) drowned in the Titanicdi...
1920s
1. William Wilton (born 1865), Scottish football manager (Rangers F.C.), drowned in a boating accident at Gourock, Scotland in 1920. 2. Little Lord Fauntleroy (murder victim), an unidentified child found in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on March 8, 1921. He had been hit in the head with a blunt instrument and was thrown into a quarry, which resulted in his death. 3. Pavel Urysohn(born 1898), Russian mathematician and topologist, drowned on 17 August 1924 while on holiday in France. 4. Sacadura Cabral...
2000s
1. Linda Andersen (born 1959), forcibly drowned in her bathtub by her two daughters in Mississauga, Ontario, on January 18, 2003. 2. Riley Fox (born 2001), American child, was found drowned in a creek near Wilmington, Illinoison June 6, 2004, shortly after she had been reported missing. Her father was initially suspected of killing her and spent eight months in jail before evidence cleared him and charges were dropped; he would later successfully sue the local sheriff's office for violations...
2010s
1. Dawn Brancheau, SeaWorld trainer, killed during a killer whale show and suffered a blunt trauma on February 24, 2010. 2. Toshiharu Ikeda, Japanese film director and screenwriter, committed suicide in December 2010. 3. Marie-France Pisier, French actress, found dead in her swimming pool April 2011. 4. Nandana, the 8-year-old daughter of Indian singer K. S. Chithra, drowned after falling into a swimming pool in Dubai, April 2011. 5. Whitney Houston, American singer, found dead in her bathtub...
2020s
1. On 8 July 2020, Alex Pullin(also known as 'Chumpy'), an Australian Olympic snowboarder, drowned after a spearfishing accident at Palm Beach, Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. 2. Also on 8 July 2020, actress and singer Naya Rivera drowned in Lake Piru, Ventura County, California, after saving her son. After being declared a missing person and a subsequent search and rescue mission, her body was found on 13 July 2020. 3. On 26 November 2021, the Norwegian YouTuber Apetor drowned at Jakobs...
Osburh. Alfred the Great (also spelled Ælfred; c. 849 – 26 October 899) was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from 886 until his death in 899. He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf and his first wife Osburh, who both died when Alfred was young. Three of Alfred's brothers, Æthelbald, Æthelberht and ...
Results of a study published in 2007, "The Political Economy of Exile in the Great Dismal Swamp", say that thousands of people lived in the swamp between 1630 and 1865, Native Americans, maroons and enslaved laborers on the canal. A 2011 study speculated that thousands may have lived in the swamp between the 1600s and 1860.
