Charles Domery (c. 1778 – after 1800) was a soldier with an unusually large appetite. Serving in the Prussian Army during the War of the First Coalition, he deserted to the French Revolutionary Army in return for better rations. He was voraciously hungry; while stationed near Paris, he was recorded as having eaten 174 cats in a year, and would eat 4 to 5 pounds (1.8 to 2.3 kg) of grass each day if he could not find other food. During service on the French frigate Hoche, he attempted to eat the severed leg of a crew member hit by cannon fire, before it was wrestled from him. In 1799 Hoche was captured by British forces, and Domery and the crew were interned in Liverpool. Despite receiving ten times the rations of other inmates, he remained ravenous, eating the prison cat, at least 20 rats, and many prison candles. Domery's case was brought to the attention of the Sick and Hurt Commissioners, who tested his eating capacity by feeding him four bottles of porter and a total of 16 pounds (7.3 kg) of raw cow's udder, raw beef and tallow candles, all of which he ate and drank in a single day without defecating, urinating, or vomiting. (Full article...)
... that the velvet-fronted grackle joins other birds in small, noisy flocks and sometimes forages on floating vegetation on lakes?
... that in the war against Tiglath-Pileser III in 732 BCE, Samsi was defeated and was said to have fled the battlefield like a "wild she-ass of the desert"?
2000 – Two suicide bombers attacked the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Cole while it was at anchor in Aden, Yemen, killing 17 of its crew members and injuring 39 others.
Thirty-two high-rises stand taller than 295 feet (90 m) in Brooklyn, the most populous of New York City's five boroughs. The current tallest building in Brooklyn is 388 Bridge Street in Downtown Brooklyn, which rises 590 feet (180 m) and was opened in 2014. Avalon Willoughby West, currently under construction in Downtown Brooklyn, is slated to become Brooklyn's tallest building at 596 feet (182 m) following its topping out in 2015. Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower(pictured) in Fort Greene, at 512 feet (156 m), was the tallest building in Brooklyn for 80 years from its completion in 1929 until 2009, when The Brooklyner was topped out at 514 feet (157 m). The Brooklyner and the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower are currently the borough's second and third-tallest buildings. Brooklyn's fourth-tallest building, at 489 feet (149 m), is 66 Rockwell Place, a residential tower that was completed in 2014. (Full list...)
The Ninth Wave is an oil painting on canvas completed by the Russian Armenianmarine painterIvan Aivazovsky in 1850. It depicts a sea after a night storm and people facing death attempting to save themselves by clinging to debris from a wrecked ship. The title refers to a belief that waves grow increasingly larger until the largest wave, the ninth (or tenth) wave.
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