Shayari Bazar

Francis Bacon: One of the most influential minds of the late 16th century A statesman a philosopher a writer and a scientist he was even rumored to have written some of Shakespeare`s plays How he died: Stuffing snow into a chicken One afternoon in 1625 Bacon was watching a snowstorm and was struck by the wondrous notion that maybe snow could be used to preserve meat in the same way that salt was used Determined to find out he purchased a chicken from a nearby village killed it and then standing outside in the snow attempted to stuff the chicken full of snow to freeze it The chicken never froze but Bacon did Jerome Irving Rodale: Founding father of the organic food movement creator of Organic Farming and Gardening magazine and founder of Rodale Press a major publishing corporation How he died: On the Dick Cavett Show while discussing the benefits of organic foods Rodale who bragged I`m going to live to be 100 unless I`m run down by a sugar-crazed taxi driver was only 72 when he appeared on the Dick Cavett Show in January 1971 Part way through the interview he dropped dead in his chair Cause of death: heart attack The show was never aired Aeschylus: Greek playwright in 500 BC Many historians consider him the father of Greek tragedies How he died: An eagle dropped a tortoise on his head According to legend eagles picked up tortoises and attempt to crack them open by dropping them on rocks An eagle mistook Aeschylus` head for a rock (he was bald) and dropped it on him instead Jim Fixx: Author of the best selling Complete Book of Running which started the 70`s jogging craze How he died: A heart attack while jogging Fixx was visiting Greensboro Vermont when he walked out of his house and began jogging He`d only gone a short distance when he had a massive coronary His autopsy revealed that one of his coronary arteries was 99% clogged another was 80% obstructed and a third was 70% Blocked and that Fixx had had three other attacks in the weeks prior to his death And finally there`s Lully the 16th-century composer who wrote music for the king of France While rehearsing the musicians he got too serious beating time with his staff and drove it right through his foot He died of infection