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- 1011: Princess Diana
- ... concrete pillar under a bridge shortly before midnight on August 30, 1997. The driver of the car, Henri Paul was said to being trying to outrun the paparazzi. He was also known to have been drinking and taking drugs that evening. The Princess underwent hours of surgery before she was pronounced dead (British Royal Government website). Dodi Fayed also died in the car crash, as did the driver of the vehicle ...
- 1012: Pablo Picasso
- ... In 1961 Picasso settled in the rustic house at Notre-Dame-de-Vie. Between the Ages of 85 and 92, Picasso produced three series of drawings of extraordinary newness. They include mythological scenes, circus scenes, drinking and party scenes, and passionate scenes (82 drawings and washes, 1966-67) mingling Penelopes and Ledas, charioteers, and musketeers. The same themes were treated more realistically in 347 untitled engravings (March-October 1968) showing spanish ...
- 1013: Orson Welles
- ... who refused to accept his or her fate was systematically destroyed. This dark side of Welles personality was often masked by a lighter side that enjoyed the company of others and the good life of drinking, women, and food. In the end, Welles died a highly recognized man who reached his pinnacle too early and spent the rest of his life trying to repeat the act. However, other people believe that ...
- 1014: Oprah Winfrey
- ... And Oprah has a lot of same problems that many of these women has and can relate to. Viewers have no trouble envisioning her sitting home at the kitchen table in sweats and no makeup, drinking caffeine and chomping a Danish".(Stanley 1997 p.34) This feeling of closeness is Oprah's strongest point that makes her a billionaire. And to get more close with publics, Oprah picks up a book ...
- 1015: John Hancock
- ... s good work in school, he also had fun, as many did in college. In late August of his sophomore year, two of his friends and him went to a local tavern. They began a drinking exhibition, but during this display, they got a black servant so drunk that they "endangered his life." This act was not well accepted by theadministration and they were up for judgement. Punishment for this act ...
- 1016: Jim Morrison
- ... the premises, can be summed up thus: Mr. Morrison had been complaining for a few weeks of pericardial [over the heart] pains with dyspnoea [difficulty breathing]. It was evidently coronary problems, possibly aggravated by abusive drinking. One can imagine that on the occasion of a change of outside temperature followed by a bath, these troubles were suddenly aggravated, leading to classical myocardial infarction [blockage of a coronary artery], causing sudden death ...
- 1017: Jeffrey Dalhmer
- ... Shari convinced him to try the idea of college. In the fall of 1978, they drove him to Ohio State University, but he stayed drunk the whole semester and flunked out. By this time, his drinking problem was well understood, but he would not seek help for it. Lionel read him the rules: either Jeff had to get a job or join the Army. When Jeff refused to get a job ...
- 1018: Henry VII
- ... shooting, singing, dancing, wrestling, casting of the bar, playing the recorder, flute and virginals, setting of songs, making ballads, hunting and hawking. I also like to live life to the full, enjoying gambling, eating and drinking with little restraint. .Diary DATE: June 11th, 1509 King Henry VIIs death bed wish was for me to marry Catherine of Aragon the princess who had been brought from Spain as the bride of ...
- 1019: Heinrich Schliemann
- ... the Lutheran minister of the hamlet of Ankershagen in 1832 ("Heinrich Schliemann: Heros and Mythos"). The church's authorities allowed him to keep his undeserved government pension, which he would use for nights of heavy drinking and lavish gifts for his lover (Burg 2-7). Though Schliemann wrote autobiographically that his first archaeological interests in the ancient city of Troy were piqued at the knee of his learned and doting father ...
- 1020: Ghengis Khan The Great
- ... means "strong ruler." His first invasion as Genghis Khan was against Xi Xia. The trip to the battle site was horrendous. The men had to walk across deserts for weeks. They survived the trip by drinking blood and milk from their horses. Genghis defeated the Xi Xia Empire very easily. Genghis was the only person who ever broke through the Great Wall of China. He arrived at the wall in late ...
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