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Death rate is increased for at least 7 years after head injury: a prospective study

On a Death's-Head, covered with Cobwebs, kept in a Library, and said to be the Skull of a King

Using Head-on Collisions to Compare Risk of Driver Death by Frontal Air Bag Generation: A Matched-Pair Cohort Study

RE: “USING HEAD-ON COLLISIONS TO COMPARE RISK OF DRIVER DEATH BY FRONTAL AIR BAG GENERATION: A MATCHED-PAIR COHORT STUDY”

Early Morning, Driving in a Spring Rain, Through Shuqualak & Headed Toward Meridian, Mississippi, I Think of the Miserable Death of David Ruffin

The Death of the Two-Headed Nightingale: Why the Paulsson—van den Berg Presumption that Party-Appointed Arbitrators are Untrustworthy is Wrongheaded

One a cherrie stone sent to the tip of mistris Jemiammas Wealdgraves eare one the one side a delicate face on the otherside a deathes head

DAVIES, Douglas James (born 1947), Professor in the Study of Religion, since 2000, and Director, Centre for Death and Life Studies, since 2007, University of Durham (Head, Department of Theology, 2002–05)

Stern, Sydney James (1845 - 1912), JP for Surrey and London, Hon. Colonel of the 4th Volunteer Battalion East Surrey Regiment; [The title of Viscount was inherited from his father, who established in London the firm of Stern Brothers, of which firm he remained the head until his death]

 

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The figure of the death's head has been a prominent symbol of human mortality and the vanity of life in Western culture. Whether it appears in the hands of Shakespeare's ...

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