#13 "Chrysippus of Soli"

Chrysippus died of laughter while watching his drunk donkey try to eat figs.

"In most respects I am a happy man,
Excepting where Cleanthes is concerned;
For in that matter I am far from fortunate."
– Chrysippus (1)

"The parson here is as bigoted as an old farm-yard cow,
and as stupid as a thoroughbred donkey,
and as rough as a buffalo."
– Franz Schubert (2)

#12 "Hollywoodland"

"I am afraid I am a coward. I am sorry for everything. If I had done this a long time ago, it would have saved a lot of pain." – Peg Entwistle's suicide note

#11 "One-Hundred and Forty-Two, At Least"

At least 142 Dogs...

#10 "S. A. Andrée"

"It is not a little strange to be floating here above the Polar Sea. To be the first to have floated here in a balloon. I can not deny that all three of us are dominated by a feeling of pride. We think we can face death having done what we have done." – S. A. Andrée

"...the middle of the night... shadows on the glacier... the flaming outside... not of innocent white doves... carrion birds... bad weather, we fear... to escape... out to sea... crash... grating... driftwood..." – S. A. Andrée

#9 "Nils Strindberg"

"Well, now your Nils knows what it's like to walk on polar ice! We had a little mishap at the start: while crossing from one ice floe to the next, our sledge went crooked and fell in. I jumped down in the water and held the first sledge so that it wold not sink. It was with difficulty that it was saved. Andreé was angry that I had taken such a risk. Since we have two more sledges and provisions enough. Of course he did not know that in the first sledge is my sack with all your letters and your portrait." – Nils Strindberg (1)

#8 "Knut Frænkel"

The last to be found.

#7 "Georg Wilhelm Richmann"

Georg Wilhelm Richmann and Ludwig Beethoven were both Germans citizens who worked outside their home country for most of their lives.

#6 "Robert Williams"

"A jury has ordered the manufacturer of a one-ton robot that killed a worker at a Ford Motor Co. plant to pay the man's family $10 million. (1)"

#5 "The Jazz Dancer"

"The wind? I am the wind. The sea and the moon? I am the sea and the moon. Tears, pain, love, bird-flights? I am all of them. I dance what I am. Sin, prayer, flight, the light that never was on land or sea? I dance what I am."
–CARL SANDBURG ("Isadora Duncan")–

Isadora Duncan "...died on September 14, 1927, in Nice in an infamous automobile accident: the scarf she was wearing caught in the open-spoke wheel of a convertible in which she was a passenger; she died instantly of a broken neck." (1)

#4 "Homer likes the feel of pages"

The ironic story of the Collyer brothers, where pack rats became rat food.

#3 "In The Name of Science"

Gustav Mahler and William Kemmler were born the same year, just a month apart.

"The scene of Kemmler's execution was too horrible to picture. He died the death of Feeks, the linemen, who was slowly roasted to death in the sight of thousands. Man accustomed to every form of suffering grew faint as the awful spectacle was unfolded before their eyes. Those who stood the sight were filled with awe as they saw the effects of this most potent of fluids which is only partly understood by those who have studied it most faithfully, as it slowly, to slowly, disintegrated the fibre and tissues of the body through which it passed. The heaving of a chest which it had been promised would be stilled in an instant peace as soon as the circuit was completed, the foaming of the mouth, the bloody sweat, the writhing shoulders and all the other signs of life.

THE ODOR OF BURNING FLESH.

Horrible as these were they were made infinitely more horrible by the premature removal of the electrodes and the subsequent replacing of them for not seconds but minutes, until the room was filled with the odor of burning flesh and strong man fainted and felt like logs upon the floor." (1)

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#2 "Ottomobile"

"At the end I would like to ask you not to take the things I achieved as more as they are. The photographs that show me flying high in the air give the impression that the problem is solved. But that is certainly not the case. I have to admit that it still requires a lot of work to develop a durable flight of a human being out of this simple gliding. The achievements so far are for humans flying no more than what the first insecure steps of an infant are for the walking of man." Otto Lilienthal (1)

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#1 "Mio Cor!"

In 1830, Huskisson was hit by a Rocket. 31 years later, Walt Whitman was better known in Europe for not dying in a railroad accident. Huskisson was famous for the opposite.

“My Heart”
said Walt Whitman from the Mystic Trumpeter
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