Honor killings

If Edward had much to avenge, then the fight at Towton was a vengeance I had not thought it possible any mortal could wreak. It was the only time, they said, that Edward gave no order to spare the commons, and forbade his men to take any prisoners for an honorable, profitable ransom. All the enemies of the House of York were to be killed. 

Burgundy s horse was killed in the first charge. It is not a rare event, a common but unlucky chance, and almost all men spoke of it thus. There were rumors, but none believed them. Next day we fought with axes, but Edward stopped the fight after half a dozen strokes that we might end alive and equal in honor. 

It is an ax, of course. I was not tried by my peers, as is my right. Nor am I granted that final right, the last rites of knighthood, that I be killed with our own, our honorable steel. No matter. Even such honor is a thing of the world. 

He saved the family honor, though. He must have killed the killer or he couldn t have brought back the sheath. ... 

His life was undoubtedly shortened by his continued work with the toxic gases, fluorine and carbon monoxide. He died on February 20, 1907. His only child, Louis, an assistant at the ficole de Pharmacie, who was killed on a battlefield of World War I, left 200,000 francs to the school for the establishment of two prizes the Moissan chemistry prize in memory of his father and the Lugan pharmacy prize in honor of his mother (25, 65). 

Religious considerations make suicide car bombs viable for the Jihad Their members believe that dying while killing infidels ensures their place of honor in heaven and the more infidels killed, the greater the honor. This interpretation of the Koran is a bit odd, however, because the Koran has a strict prohibition on... 

The tribal chieftain said that he felt sorry for the tribesmen, but that the Tradition was sacred. He condemned the commander to death without honor. Rather than being killed by a blade or a bullet, he was hanged from a dead palm tree, where his body twisted in the desert wind. 

The classic prototype chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticide is DDT (dichloro-diphenyltrichloroethane), a chemical which earned its discoverer, Dr. Paul Muller, a Nobel Prize in 1948. This honor was an event that partly reflected the tremendous beneficial impact that this class of compounds had on disease prevention and food production. Although this compound is not used any longer in the United States (see Chapter 3), it is still widely used throughout the world where the risk/benefit ratio favors continued pesticide use. This is because of its efficacy in agriculture and its ability to kill insect vectors of important human diseases such as malaria. It is thus monitored in the FDA food surveillance programs. 

Both Giulio and Rosita Natta were fond of the outdoors. She was an avid fisherwoman and he was a collector of fossils and mushrooms. His trips, however, were limited. His mother was killed in an automobile accident and he, not only did not drive, but was even reluctant to ride in an automobile. Nevertheless, he continued as an active director of the Institut but in later life was stricken with Parkinson s Disease and was seriously handicapped in his speech and walk. He was supported by his son Giuseppe when he received the Nobel Prize in 1963. His speech was read by a colleague. He received the Lomonosov Gold Medal of the USSR Academy of Science in 1909 and was awarded honor degrees finm many universities. 

On April 19, 1906, Pierre was on his way home from a meeting. Hurrying to cross a street, he was run over by a horse-drawn wagon with a heavy load. He was killed instantly. After this tragic event, Marie had to solve, alone, without her life companion, the many new, waiting assignments. Less than a month after the accident, the university offered her the chance to take up Pierre s academic post. By accepting, she hoped to honor the memory of Pierre. She started to create a scientific institution with better laboratory facilities than had been at Pierre s disposal. 

Marie Sklodowska Curie, born in Warsaw, Poland, began her doctoral work with Henri Becquerel soon after he discovered the spontaneous radiation emitted by uranium salts.She found this radiation to be an atomic property and coined the word radioactivity for it. In 1903 the Curies and Becquerel were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for their discovery of radioactivity.Three years later, Pierre Curie was killed in a carriage accident.Marie Curie continued their work on radium and in 1911 was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery of polonium and radium and the isolation of pure radium metal.This was the first time a scientist had received two Nobel awards. (Since then two others have been so honored.)... 

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