A penalty for blasphemy recorded in Bronze Age Ugarit (modern-day Syria) was to be forcibly inebriated, thrown off a building, stoned and then crucified.
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"There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
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~ Aristotle
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193 Roman emperor Pertinax was stabbed to death by his Praetorian Guard.
845 Vikings sacked Paris, possibly led by Ragnar Lothbrok. They left after being paid 7000 livres of gold and silver.
1917 Women were recruited for service with the British army in a non-nursing capacity for the first time.
1941 Writer Virginia Woolf filled her pockets with stones and drowned herself in the River Ouse in Sussex.
1987 Maria von Trapp, who provided the inspiration for The Sound of Music, died of heart failure, aged 82.
1991 A jury returned a verdict of 'accidental death' at the inquest into the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.