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It won't surprise you that she died at just 31 in a plane accident. What will surprise you is how it happened — she was taking part in a photo shoot on the ground when she accidentally walked into a spinning aircraft propeller and was killed instantly. Playing tennis/walking blindfolded on a plane 3,000 feet up? No problem. Avoiding a spinning propeller on the ground? Hard, I guess. Still, despite the tragic end, Roy remains one of the most badass people of all time.

The image above is an example of Sumerian writing from the time period of the fart joke, but it's slightly more sophisticated — it's about medical practices.

(Note: The above image is not of Donald and Gua, but some other kid/chimp combo from the '50s. What was going on back then, LOL?) 

Circa 1700, Peter I (1672 - 1725), who ruled Russia from 1682 until his death as Peter the Great. (Photo by Stock Montage/Getty Images)

In her 2010 memoir Spoken from the Heart, Laura addressed the crash in detail. She wrote, “The whole time, I was praying that the person in the other car was alive. In my mind, I was calling ‘Please God, please God, please God,’ over and over and over again.” She added that the trauma shaped her life, and that “I lost my faith that November, lost it for many, many years.”

Above: portraits of young prisoners on display at the S-21 Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum. 

I couldn't find an image of pre-Revolutionary War voting, but I thought the one above was interesting — it's a polling booth in 1840s NY!

The death toll mentioned in the headline was later raised from 11 to 21.

James Cameron is planning a movie about his story.