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PERSEUS & MEDUSA PERSEUS & MEDUSA
PERSEUS slays MEDUSA, not looking at her because to see her is fatal; his horse Pegasus also looks away

LCC-LFB fatal warehouse fire, Langley Street WC2
Three firemen died fighting this blaze in a Covent Garden warehouse in Langley Street. The first crews to arrive, from Clerkenwell fire station, found the warehouse well alight

The Death of Ellen Bright at Wombwells Menagerie, 1850
Engraving showing Ellen Bright (1832-1850), a Lion Queen animal trainer, being attacked by a tiger during the course of a performance at Wombwells Menagerie, Chatham, January 1850

Richard III on Horse
KING RICHARD III OF ENGLAND depicted at the fatal battle of Bosworth Field - a splendidly stylised depiction showing the doomed monarch desperate yet determined

BUNKERs HILL MINE / 1875
Bunkers Hill mine, in North Staffordshire, the scene of a fatal explosion on April 30th 1875. Date: 1875

Faust - Liebig - 4
FAUST Faust fights Marguerites brother Valentin, and Mephistopheles directs a fatal stroke

8th Crusade - Fleet
EIGHTH CRUSADE The ships which carried Louis IX from France to Carthage on his fatal crusade in North Africa Date: 1270

Ramon Novarro - Mexican Actor
Ramon Novarro (1899-1968) - Mexican Actor, murdered by asphyxiation by two hired rent boys who believed that a large sum of money was hidden in Novarros house. Date: circa 1930s

His Fatal Beauty, by Bairnsfather
His Fatal Beauty OLD BILL: " My wife married me for love, ye know, Bert" BERT (after prolonged and somewhat pained scrutiny of Bills face): " I had been wonderin what it was, Bill

The second de Havilland DH108 TG306
The second de Havilland DH108, TG306, on the Wednesday before the fatal accident which killed Geoffrey de Havilland

Rolls in Wright
The Honourable Charles Rolls (of Rolls-Royce) flies his Wright biplane at Bournemouth Aviation Week : but he has a fatal crash - Britains first aviation fatality

William John Wills
WILLIAM JOHN WILLS English explorer in Australia, associated with the fatal expedition with Burke

Scene of the Fatal Explosion at Birmingham
Scene following an explosion that took place on the premises of Messrs. Pursall and Phillips, percussion-cap manufacturers, in Whittall Street, St. Marys Square, Birmingham

Brooklands Race
Scenes from the British Thousand Miles Race at Brooklands. The wreckage of an M.G. Midget driven by H. Leeson, who died in the accident. And female winners T. H. Wisdom and Joan Richmond. Date: 1932

The Curtain Illustration
An illustration in reference to a poem, written by Australian poet, Zora Bernice May Cross, showing a woman in a blue dress, hiding behind a stage curtain

Hawker Siddeley HS. 125-3B HB-VAY
Hawker Siddeley HS.125-3B HB-VAY (msn 25135), at Hatfield, prior to delivery. (This aircraft was written-off in a fatal accident at Edinburgh Airport / RAF Turnhouse on 20 July 1970) Date: 1967

Death of a stuntman, Eastbourne
Death of a stuntman at Arlington Stadium, near Eastbourne. John Bell, aged 23, was being towed behind a car on a wooden sledge when, as part of the stunt

DUC D'ORLEANS DIES - 4
Ferdinand-Philippe, duc d'Orleans, son of Louis- Philippe and heir to the throne, dies in a house in Neuilly after a fatal carriage accident. Date: 13 July 1842

DUC D'ORLEANS DIES - 3
Ferdinand-Philippe, duc d'Orleans, son of Louis- Philippe and heir to the throne, dies in this house in Neuilly after a fatal carriage accident. Date: 13 July 1842

Duc Orleans Dies Events France 13 July 1842 Ferdinand
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ALEXANDER II DEAD
Tsar ALEXANDER II, assassinated by nihilists, on his deathbed in the Winter Palace whither he was taken after the fatal explosion. Date: 1818 - 1881

ZENITH BALLOON ACCIDENT
Carrying away the dead bodies following the fatal crash of the balloon Zenith when the aeronauts on board fainted due to the ballon's high altitude Date: May 1, 1875

THE TOMB OF PHAETON
After his fatal drive, Phaeton's tomb is flanked by his sisters, changed into poplars, while his friend Cygnus, bitterly mourning his death, becomes a swan. Date:

WILLIAM III'S FATAL FALL
William III, king of England, falls off a horse while riding at Hampton Court, and dies of his injuries. Date: 20 February 1702

BALLAD / CLERK COLVILL
CLERK COLVILL He sees a mermaid bathing in the Wells of Slane, and falls instantly in love with her... but her love is fatal, and he returns home only to die. Date: traditional

HYACINTH FATAL ACCIDENT
Hyacinth is playing a game with his lover Apollo, when Zephyr, jealous, directs Apollo's arrow at him : he dies, and from his blood springs a hyacinth flower

Miracle Saved Tin Paranormal Miracles 1918 World
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Boy in toy car A Fatal Accident by H G C Marsh

William Terriss and W L Abingdon in The Fatal Card
William Terriss as Gerald Austen and W L Abingdon as James Dixon, in The Fatal Card Date: 1890s

Jessie Millward as Margaret Marrable in The Fatal Card Date: 1890s

Comic postcard, Cats on a roof - I ve the fatal gift of beauty Date: 1913

Harold Davidson, former rector of Stiffkey, Norfolk
Harold Davidson (1875-1937), defrocked former rector of Stiffkey, Norfolk, seen here lion taming at Skegness in July 1937. Unfortunately, this kind of activity led to his being attacked and killed

Fatal motor race at Brooklands, 1907
The fatal motor-race on the Brooklands track: the scene immediately after the overturning of Mr Hermons car. The first fatal accident at Brooklands racing track when driver Vincent Herman

Captain William Duncan Dale ready for balloon ascent
Captain William Duncan Dale ready for his balloon ascent at Crystal Palace, Sydenham, SE London, July 1892. 1892

Parry Thomas, motor racing driver, at the wheel of Babs, half an hour before his fatal accident attempting another world speed record at Pendine, Carmarthenshire on 3 March 1928. 1928

Charles Stewart Rolls (1877 - 1910), Welsh motoring and aviation pioneer. Co-founded of the Rolls-Royce car manufacturing firm with Henry Royce

United States Navy - Pratt-Read XLNE-1 31506, competition #32, at Harris Hill, Elmira, NY in 1946 for the first US soaring contest held after WWII

Percy Pilchers fatal flight 1899
Photographs showing Pilcher ready to start and in mid flight on his invention the Gliding machine. On 30th September 1899, the weather was wet and stormy

PHAETONS FATAL DRIVE
Phaetons irresponsible drive in his father (the Sun)s chariot endangers the planet : Zeus has no choice, but to destroy him with a timely thunderbolt

FALL ON THE MATTERHORN
Climbing the Matterhorn with Whymper, Reynaud has a frightening but not fatal fall Date: 1863

Fleet Super Bonanza N174SV
Fleet Super V Bonanza N174SV (msn SV115) (donor aircraft msn D-422 built in 1947). In the late 50s Bay Aviation (formerly Oakland Airmotive produced a twin-engined conversion of the V-tailed Beech)

North American T-6G N7765C
North American T-6G 50-1288 (MSN 88-17307); transferred to civil registry as N7765C. Seen with racing number 74. N7756C was written off in a fatal accident on 11 October 1993. Date: 1950s

Winter sun highlights a skull & crossbones on a tomb
The low winter sun highlights a skull & crossbones on a tomb beneath cemetery gates. Kirkcudbright graveyard, Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland Date: 2009

For her childrens sake by Theo. Kremer : the companion play to The fatal wedding. Date c1903

Knife-Thrower Accident
In a London theatre, a cry from the audience causes the knife-throwers assistant to move her head; fortunately the wound is not fatal Date: 1939

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Douglas A-20J Havoc - Photographed moments after taking a fatal hit

Stockport Air Disaster - 4th June 1967
Stockport Air Disaster 4th June 1967, in which 72 passengers and crew died when the British Midlands Airways Canadair C4 Argonaut from Palma, Mallorca

Girl Faints in Mans Arm
Girl faints into gentlemans arms after reading the fatal telegram Date: circa 1890

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